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I found this article on Hot Air about how hard it is to pay for birth control, so we all should pay for it in the insurance.  The original article was from http://cnsnews.com/.

Quoting :
Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke said that it’s too expensive to have sex in law school without mandated insurance coverage.


Apparently, four out of every ten co-eds are having so much sex that it's hard to make ends meet if they have to pay for their own contraception, Fluke's research shows.


"Forty percent of the female students at Georgetown Law reported to us that they struggled financially as a result of this policy (Georgetown student insurance not covering contraception), Fluke reported.


It costs a female student $3,000 to have protected sex over the course of her three-year stint in law school, according to her calculations.


"Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school," Fluke told the hearing.


There is also a video of the testimony at both places.

There are various comments at both sites.  Since these are conservative sites (especially Hot Air) there is not much sympathy for the poor coeds.

Quoting Hot Air article:

At the end of her testimony, Fluke spoke in strong language of her resentment of university administrators and others who suggest she should have chosen to attend a different university that would have offered student insurance that does cover contraception — even if that other university wasn’t quite as prestigious as Georgetown.


“We refuse to pick between a quality education and our health and we resent that, in the 21st Century, anyone thinks it’s acceptable to ask us to make that choice simply because we are women,” Fluke said.


Ms. Fluke, I resent that you think women are incapable of controlling themselves, of sacrificing temporary pleasure for the sake of long-term success. You make us sound like animals, slaves to our instincts and able to be used, but we’re better than that. We’re persons, equal to men in dignity and love.


Sometimes you have to sacrifice in life.  We can not have everything we want!  The occupy movement's mentality that I want it, you pay for it is too prevalent these days.

Free Birth Control

This is one of my favorite quotes from an Obama supporter.

I can understand that a not that well educated person might believe that there are actually free things in life, but the President of the US (a Harvard educated lawyer) should know better.

His compromise for the Catholic Church's complaint about supplying "Free" birth control and abortions is to make the insurance companies do it.  Does he really not understand that "Free" birth control must cost someone?  If an insurance company is required to supply a "free" something, they will raise rates.  So his compromise is still costing the Catholic Church to pay for the "Free" birth control.

I guess he has never had to actually pay for anything himself; especially now that he is President (note his numerous parties and gala presentations he has had while President).