Sandra Fluke professes not to have known that birth control pills for $9.00 for a month’s supply are available within easy walking distance of Georgetown. I believe her. I doubt if Sandra Fluke would ever do anything as declasse as shop at a Walmart. That is for the hoi polloi. Sandra’s life as a struggling law student includes trips to Europe, presumably paid for by her mega-rich boy friend.
Her boyfriend is Adam Mutterperl, son of wealth attorney, and Democrat stalwart, William Mutterperl. Read all about it here. In her rarefied atmosphere, I can understand why she thought it would cost $1,000 a year for birth control, once you factor in the wages paid to the butler while he picks it up, and the cost of the limo to take the servant to and fro, the expense does tend to escalate.
Although you come off as agreeable with Ms Fluke, it does not take long to show your intentions. Way to totally miss the point of this conversation. At least you could have called her a slut! Jesus Christ!
“Although you come off as agreeable with Ms Fluke, it does not take long to show your intentions.”
How perceptive you are Bryan. My intention was to show that she is a completely out of touch limousine Leftist. Thanks for picking up on that.
“Way to totally miss the point of this conversation.”
That Sandra Fluke is a spoiled brat Leftist who wishes to trample on religious liberties is, I think, the point of the conversation.
“At least you could have called her a slut!”
Nah, she isn’t that harmless, or honest.
“Jesus Christ!”
Ah, casual blasphemy, always the way to end a well-argued contribution to com box debate.
Birth control drugs can potentially have some negative side effects. Working with a doctor to try to find what is right for you, getting the appropriate prescription, and having follow-up appointments can be an expensive proposition, regardless of the cost of generics at Walmart.
Please Michael, give it up. Sandra Fluke was simply lying for political effect. She has given zero details as to how she came up with the $3,000.00 figure and she clearly had no intention of discussing how cheap contraception is for the average woman, or that contraception is available for free to poor women under Title X.
Ace of Spades asked her how she arrived at the figure she cited. The response, a refusal to comment:
“By asserting, with no citation to any source, that she’s “informed” that some people with a conveniently-unnamed “genetic” disease can’t take those particular pills (which ones? there are a lot of different types available at that price) but must take pills costing “$1500 per year.”
Look, as a blogger, sometimes I, well, I don’t make things up, but I pass things along without verification.
If I started telling Jake Tapper or anyone in the media things I’d been “informed of” by unnamed people in my comments, would they take it seriously?
No. They’d ignore it. People tell stories. People’s stories tend to be those that push their agenda. Absent verification, they’re just stories.
Has Jake Tapper or anyone else in the media checked Fluke’s main claim — that many insurance policies won’t cover hormonal therapy when prescribed for medical reasons?
Because that’s her big claim — that while birth control per se might be cheap, some women have rare “genetic” diseases requiring birth control hormones for medical purposes, but insurers won’t cover these costs. (These are the only conceivable truly high costs of “birth control.”)
And yet, has she named a single policy or provider which maintains this bizarre scheme?
No.
And I asked her on Twitter
She refused comment.”
“Birth control drugs can potentially have some negative side effects. Working with a doctor to try to find what is right for you, getting the appropriate prescription, and having follow-up appointments can be an expensive proposition, regardless of the cost of generics at Walmart.”
This. Exactly. Birth Control isn’t something you screw around with. It can have serious side effects if you take it without seeing a doctor. Not all prescriptions are the same and not all women can take the same kind of birth control.
“Birth Control isn’t something you screw around with.”
No comment.
“Not all prescriptions are the same and not all women can take the same kind of birth control.”
And for the vast majority of women contraception is dirt cheap or free. Next red herring.
No comment.
LOL – really!
Even if they are more expensive for some, it’s still not likely to cost $3000. Regardless, that’s missing the point. It is unjust to force other people to pay for your expensive recreational activities – especially if they view those activities as immoral.
Birth control pills DO have serious side effects…breast cancer for one. The best method yet to prevent unplanned pregnancy is abstinence.
Birth Control isn’t something you screw around with.
Dr. Pepper on monitor… almost. HAHAHAHAHAHA
But then again, side effects are real. They include such wonderful things as weight gain, moodiness, and loss of libido. Really, sounds like the ideal spouse… not.
On the unattractive side, they can contribute to cardiac issues and increased risk of cancer.
Birth control is also known to cause abortion. OK, maybe “lead to” more than “cause”, but the ends are the same.
And I didn’t know that you needed a prescription for condoms.
Birth control pills have poisoned our ground water with estrogen. Obama wants us to pay to pollute our ground water, then pay to clean it up.
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At the houston anti hhs rally. About 400 people so far.
Let us know how the rally went c matt. We need to have such rallies up and down the nation.
but must take pills costing “$1500 per year.”
Taking her at her word, that’s $125 a month.
A latte (tall) costs about $3.50 each. One latte a day would just about cover it. That is not even factoring in her use of a health savings account which would lower the after tax cost even more. Maybe if the HHS mandated coverage for one latte a day, that would free up her coin for the pills?
Went very well – beautiful day, inspiring speakers. One young female speaker in particular who recognized the despicable tactic of the media and HHS supporters to change the narrative from religious freedom to banning contraceptives. She was not fooled, but unfortunately too many others are.
Tough to estimate the crowd, several hundred at least. And very well behaved – vocal with cheers for the speakers, but no disruptive conduct at all. Lots of kids present too, mostly babies and elementary school age. An Orthodox priest, several Catholic nuns, Catholic priest and Protestant Minister (…walk into a rally…sounds like the intro of a joke).
Four or five cops on hand, and essentially just sat in the shade, chatted with each other, and watched – not much for them to do.
One thing I never quite understood. The same people who go out of their way to eat only organic fruit, vegetables and meats (when they do eat meat) and decry the use of hormones in food products, have no problem directly ingesting a synthetic hormone on a daily basis. Go figure.
c matt, that observation fits Seattle to a T.
Suzanne Sommers books reveal her investigation into the ways big pharma has fooled women into thinking that they have the answers when the reality is that it is all about making money and they don’t care how they tamper with nature or the consequences. Men and women from both sides of this issue should look at what she has written and investigate for yourselves. The bottom line for me is that if you are following church teaching you don’t have to worry, if you are not and thinking you are going to get away with it, think again. It can have lifelong effects and affects everyone around you, from our having to deal with family illness to the water it pollutes and environmental harm from the hormones in the water.
I get that Ms. Fluke’s friend could have bought birth control pills cheaply at Wal-Mart. However, she needed to take them for an ovarian problem (which, because she did not have birth control pills, she died from, I believe). My thought is that she perhaps needed a certain type of BC pill, a type that might have been very expensive. So we have a situation in which the Catholic Church doesn’t want to pay for medication that could save lives…In any case, it all goes back to intent. If BC pills can be an abortificient (sp?), a question that is highly suspect, well, so can booze, and that is beyond question, but Catholic church’s happily give out booze at parties and so forth.
God knows Walter where you got the lie that Fluke testified that her friend died. Here is a link to Fluke’s meretricious testimony and she never said that:
http://www.whatthefolly.com/2012/02/23/transcript-sandra-fluke-testifies-on-why-women-should-be-allowed-access-to-contraception-and-reproductive-health-care/
Of course this has absolutely nothing to do with the rare cases, already covered, where birth control pills are used to treat a medical condition and not for contraceptive purposes. It has everything to do with running rough shod over religious liberty in order for Obama to score points with pro-abort feminists and to conjure up an imaginary “Republican war on women”, so he can overcome his miserable record and get another four year lease on the White House.
Mac,
The evil, hateful sacs of excrement at MSNBC, moron.org, et al twist the facts to make massive traps for imbecile liberals.