The Phony Contraception Debate

Most of you are not fooled by this contraception issue that has been concocted by the administration in order to slip through some elements of Obamacare they knew would be controversial. In fact, the issue was brought up by George Stephanopoulos in one of the Republican debates to the shock of the candidates, since it had heretofore not been a national issue. George is a Democratic insider, as you know, parading as an objective journalist on GMA and his own Sunday morning show. He and James Carvelle ran the infamous “Clinton War Room” during the election against George H.W.Bush and both have been making a living since then spuing party discussion points on Sunday talk shows.

This debate is really about the 1st Amendment and if the government has the right to force its will on any religious group, even if it violates its conscience. The Democrats (or Nancy Pelosi) decided that hearings on this issue needs to have women involved, since this was a woman’s health issue. So she decided to hold hearings of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee. She called Sandra Fluke, a law student at Georgetown, to testify as a victim in this debate. Miss Fluke wants free birth control pills and she wants the federal government to make her Catholic school give them to her.

Georgetown is not an Ave Maria or Notre Dame type Catholic university. You don’t see any religious imagery anywhere and a former student said that the law school chapel is an “unadorned, multipurpose room in the basement used for Gilbert and Sullivan rehearsals and club meetings and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance was particularly vigorous”. Ms. Fluke told the Washington Post that she knew that the school did not cover contraceptive drugs in its student’s health plan. However, during her time there she was President of “Students for Reproductive Justice”, an effort to get the school to give up one of the last vestiges of its Catholic conscience. She is not the victim being portrayed by the Democrats or the media. She has an agenda.

Her testimony is that, “all around her at Georgetown she could see the faces of students suffering because of the University’s refusal to abandon its Catholic principles”, she claimed that without insurance coverage it can cost a woman over $3,000 for contraceptive drugs during the 3 years in law school. The local Target pharmacy and Wal-Mart charge $9.00/month for one month’s worth of generic birth control pills, without insurance! Therefore, those suffering female law students seem to be using almost 10 times the monthly average rate of pills. Either they are running a brothel on campus or selling the pills to pimps in the neighborhood. I guess if you are that entrepreneurial, you deserve a call from the President telling you how sorry he was that they called you such bad names for standing up for your “right” to free contraception. That nasty Rush Limbaugh! In fact, Rush lost a sponsor for calling Ms. Fluke a “slut” (which he eventually apologized for). I guess we have a double standard with Obama, since he never called Sarah Palin after Bill Maher called her a whore, c--t, and various other unspeakable names. He never lost a sponsor or apologized.

Thank you Miss Pelosi for getting us sidetracked from the real issue, like what your party did to our economy since you took over Congress in 2006.