Sandra Fluke is being sold by the left as something she’s not. Namely a random co-ed from Georgetown law who found herself mixed up in the latest front of the culture war who was simply looking to make sure needy women had access to birth control. That, of course, is not the case.
As many have already uncovered Sandra Fluke she is, in reality, a 30 year old long time liberal activist who enrolled at Georgetown with the express purpose of fighting for the school to pay for students’ birth control. She has been pushing for mandated coverage of contraceptives at Georgetown for at least three years according to the Washington Post.
However, as I discovered today, birth control is not all that Ms. Fluke believes private health insurance must cover. She also, apparently, believes that it is discrimination deserving of legal action if “gender reassignment” surgeries are not covered by employer provided health insurance. She makes these views clear in an article she co-edited with Karen Hu in the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law.
Considering what the administration’s giving to illegal alien detainees, it only seems ‘fair’:
“The Obama administration’s new detention manual is more like a hospitality guideline for illegal immigrants,” Smith wrote in a statement. “The administration goes beyond common sense to accommodate illegal immigrants and treats them better than citizens in federal custody.”
The standards also outline a wide range of medical procedures available to those in detention facilities, including services such as abortion access, hormone treatments for transgendered people, dental work and a 15-day supply of medications upon release, deportation or transfer.
There you go, people. Free hormone therapy for transgendered detainees.
UPDATE: Stacy picks up the cudgel.
UPDATEx2: Memeorandum still doesn’t care to link us.
fishman on March 6, 2012 at 2:49 am said:
Cut disable Vet health care so we can pay for Georgetown Law students birth control and hormone therapy for the transgendered.
guy on March 6, 2012 at 6:18 pm said:
sandra pay for yourself we do not want to pay for you to sleep around. TRAMP.
Nancy on March 14, 2012 at 8:43 pm said:
If college students don’t have money for birth control they should abstain from sex. College is a place to get a higher education and not sex.
On the illegal aliens, they should be given a bus ticket back to where they came. If they want to come into this country they should do it the correct way. They should not get food stamps, free medical or housing. No one pays for my housing, food and medical insurance for me. I have a son who has a disability and still cannot get medical and he is an American citizen who was born here.
There are a lot of single young adults working part time and still cannot afford medical insurance. If anyone should be given insurance are the ones who are working and trying to make a living for themselves.
Thank you.