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| Sex-Crazed Co-Eds Going Broke Buying Birth Control, Student Tells Pelosi |
| 2012-02-28 |
| A Georgetown co-ed told Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s hearing that the women in her law school program are having so much sex that they’re going broke, so you and I should pay for their birth control. Speaking at a hearing held by Pelosi to tout Pres. Obama’s mandate that virtually every health insurance plan cover the full cost of contraception and abortion-inducing products, 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. $3,000 for birth control in three years? That’s a thousand dollars a year of sex – and, she wants us to pay for it. Yes, us. Where do you think the insurance companies forced to cover this cost get the money to pay for these co-eds to have sex? It comes from the health care insurance premiums you and I pay. But, back to this woman’s complaint that she’s spending $3,000 for birth control during her time in college. "For a lot of students, like me, who are on public interest scholarships, that’s practically an entire summer’s salary," she complains. So, she earns enough money in just one summer to pays for three full years of sex. And, yes, they are full years – since she and her co-ed classmates are having sex nearly three times a day for three years straight, apparently. At a dollar a condom if she shops at CVS pharmacy’s website, that $3,000 would buy her 3,000 condoms – or, 1,000 a year. (By the way, why does CVS.com list the weight of its condom products in terms of pounds?) Assuming it’s not a leap year, that’s 1,000 divided by 365 – or having sex 2.74 times a day, every day, for three straight years. And, I thought Georgetown was a Catholic university where women might be prone to shun casual, unmarried sex. At least its health insurance doesn't cover contraception (that which you subsidize, you get more of, you know). And, that’s not even considering that there are Planned Parenthood clinics in her neighborhood that give condoms away and sell them at a discount, which could help make her sexual zeal more economical. Besides, maybe, these female law students could cut back on some other expenses to make room for more birth control in their budgets, instead of making us pick up the tab. With classes and studying and all that sex, who's got time for cable? And, let's not forget about these deadbeat boyfriends (or random hook-ups?) who are having sex 2.74 times a day. If Fluke's going to ask the government to force anyone to foot the bill for her friends' birth control, shouldn't it be these guys? All of this seems to suggest at least two important conclusions: 1.If these women want to have sex, we shouldn't be forced to pay for it, and 2.If these co-eds really are this guy crazy, I should've gone to law school |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #7 If only Sandra were named Jane instead. "Jane, you politically and economically ignorant slut!" |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2012-02-28 19:20 |
| #6 Why don't thay make their partners pick up at least half the cost? Why should I get screwed if I don't even get sex? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-02-28 18:54 |
| #5 Heck they can get full birth control you can ever need for only a dime. You just have to hold it (the dime) between your knees... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2012-02-28 18:05 |
| #4 This is hilarious. Someone should suggest to the Georgetown administration that they now have a reputation as a "party school". Schools have been sensitive to that label going back to at least 1,000 B.C., and the medical school in Sidon, in what is now Lebanon. The students were supposed to be chaste, and the school was surrounded by a high wall to keep them from going into town. But a document from that time detailed all the known ways in which students had been able to get over that damned wall so they could get themselves some action. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-02-28 17:51 |
| #3 I see they've begun their career of screwing over the public even before getting the JD. |
| Posted by: Shimble Guelph5793 2012-02-28 17:20 |
| #2 They should use aspirin. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2012-02-28 17:08 |
| #1 That's a thousand dollars a year of sex -- and, she wants us to pay for it. The premiums terminate once you are married....but come to think of it, so does the sex. :-( |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-02-28 17:04 |