First and foremost, Fluke is not only a student at Georgetown University, but also a political activist to the tenth power.
She graduated from Cornell University in 2003 and spent five years working for Sanctuary for Families, a New York-based nonprofit aiding victims of domestic violence, where she launched the agency's pilot Program Evaluation Initiative. She co-founded the New York Statewide Coalition for Fair Access to Family Court, which successfully advocated for legislation granting access to civil orders of protection for unmarried victims of domestic violence, including LGBTQ victims and teens. Fluke was also a member of the Manhattan Borough President's Taskforce on Domestic Violence and numerous other New York City and New York State coalitions that successfully advocated for policy improvements impacting victims of domestic violence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Fluke
THEN, she enrolled at Georgetown University.
Secondly, she chose Georgetown University specifically because it's policy did not include free contraception. There are 4 plans at available at GU, and 3 out of the 4 do provide birth control, but that wasn't good enough. She wanted the religious institution to be forced to change it's birth-control policy.
Fluke came to Georgetown University interested in contraceptive coverage: She researched the Jesuit college’s health plans for students before enrolling, and found that birth control was not included. “I decided I was absolutely not willing to compromise the quality of my education in exchange for my health care,” (but isn't that exactly what she did)says Fluke, who has spent the past three years lobbying the administration to change its policy on the issue. The issue got the university president’s office last spring, where Georgetown declined to change its policy.
http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspo ... es-as.html
Thirdly, her "testimony" was not real testimony pertinent to the issue at all. It was not even held at a related hearing. It was held the day after the hearing as a steering policy hearing, and not only that, everything she said was complete hearsay. The entire time, she is telling stories about her friends.
She is speaking for her friends and other students? \"Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school. For a lot of students who, like me, are on public interest scholarships, that’s practically an entire summer’s salary."
Indeed, in a video made after she was denied the opportunity to testify, Fluke raises two “stories” from women who had emailed her, supposedly about their non-sex-related need of contraceptive medicine. She does not identify the emailers by name, or even by school, saying simply that they are students at an unnamed Catholic University.
Fourthly, she is not 23 years old. She is 30! Suppose that is okay as most people who heard about this only paid attention for the first day and left with the impression she is just a normal student who is victim to a religious institution's policy on life and procreation and birth control,that she chose to attend!
The idea that Fluke is herself an unwitting victim of Georgetown’s policy on contraceptives is another matter entirely. In several interviews, Fluke has implicitly included herself in the group of women who allegedly unwittingly suffer as a result of Georgetown’s policies. This is a key point for the Democrats supporting her, for if Fluke did happen to read Georgetown’s insurance policy before coming and decide to come anyway, that would, at best, undermine her spokeswoman status.
Of course it all ends with a phone call from President Obama, and he said "hello again Ms. Fluke!"
