Fluke Testified About The Health Benefits Of Contraceptive Coverage

Fluke Testified About A Student Who Needed Contraceptive Medicine To Treat Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. From Fluke's testimony before Democratic members of Congress:

In sixty-five percent of cases, our female students were interrogated by insurance representatives and university medical staff about why they needed these prescriptions and whether they were lying about their symptoms. For my friend, and 20% of women in her situation, she never got the insurance company to cover her prescription, despite verification of her illness from her doctor. Her claim was denied repeatedly on the assumption that she really wanted the birth control to prevent pregnancy. She's gay, so clearly polycystic ovarian syndrome was a much more urgent concern than accidental pregnancy. [Fluke testimony via Media Matters, 2/23/12]

Fluke Also Testified About The Need For Access To Contraceptive Medicine After A Woman Was Raped. From Fluke's testimony:

One student told us that she knew birth control wasn't covered, and she assumed that's how Georgetown's insurance handled all of women's sexual healthcare, so when she was raped, she didn't go to the doctor even to be examined or tested for sexually transmitted infections because she thought insurance wasn't going to cover something like that, something that was related to a woman's reproductive health. As one student put it, “this policy communicates to female students that our school doesn't understand our needs.” These are not feelings that male fellow students experience. And they're not burdens that male students must shoulder. [Fluke testimony via Media Matters, 2/23/12]

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Loesch Bullies Sandra Fluke By Calling Her “Whatever I Want”

Loesch: “If You Expect Me To Pay Higher Insurance Premiums To Cover Your 'Free' Birth Control, I Can Call You Whatever I Want.” On March 3, Loesch posted numerous comments on her Twitter account about Fluke's testimony and the controversy over Limbaugh's misogynistic attacks:

[Dana Loesch's Twitter account, 3/3/12; Daily Kos, 3/4/12]

Loesch Falsely Accused Fluke Of “Discussing About How She Has A Huge Inability To Control Her Sexual Urges.” Loesch addressed the controversy surrounding Limbaugh's misogynistic attacks on Fluke during the March 7 edition of her radio show, saying:

LOESCH: As the mother of sons, if I had a daughter who decided to embarrass herself and her sex by going before members of Congress on national television and discussing about how she has a huge inability to control her sexual urges, and thus needs a bailout, she needs individuals to pay higher insurance premiums so she can have free contraception at her university at which she is going by way of public funds apparently, that would to me would be more embarrassing than the act of what she's doing being called out for what it is listed as in the dictionary. That's just the hard truth of the matter.

Back in the days when women acted better in public, and they didn't go and discuss about how they had an absolute insatiable sexual appetite that needs a thousand dollars a year in order to prevent pregnancy, people did that because there was a consequence to talking about your sex life to such an extent publicly on national television. And apparently all those inhibitions are out the window. Nothing is sacred anymore and thus nothing is attractive or alluring, because everything is trashy, and I think Fluke's testimony before members of Congress has contributed to that. [KFTK, The Dana Show, 3/7/12]

Loesch: Fluke Was “Embarrassing Herself Before Congress By Testifying That She Simply Cannot Stop Getting It On.” In a March 2 Big Journalism post Loesch wrote:

More have admonished Limbaugh's description of Sandra Fluke than admonished a 30 year-old woman embarrassing herself before congress by testifying that she simply cannot stop getting it on and her inability to control her urges constitutes infringing upon everyone else for a bailout. [Big Journalism, 3/2/12]

Loesch: Fluke “Wants To Be Able To Be As Promiscuous As She Wants To Be.” During the March 2 edition her radio show, Loesch responded to a caller who said that Fluke should “change her career and go work at the Mustang Ranch out there in Vegas,” and said:

LOESCH: Oh my gosh. That could be -- you know, I'm telling you, she's worried about money apparently instead of going and asking for the government. But see that's -- and, Mike, I appreciate your call -- it comes down because she doesn't want to have to pay her own bills, because she's an independent woman. She's an independent woman like that Destiny's Child song, but she doesn't want to take care of all of her own business, because that's what independent women do. Independent women expect the government, which is characterized as the old cartoon Uncle Sam, to take care of their financial needs. She wants to be able to be as promiscuous as she wants to be, and all of the accoutrements that go along with that, she wants those to be financed by the government, because that's what independent women do. [KFTK, The Dana Show, 3/2/12]

Loesch: Is Sandra Fluke “Just Going Out And Buying Abortions?” During the March 2 edition of her radio show, Loesch responded to a caller who questioned the cost of contraceptives and said:

LOESCH: That's the whole -- 3,000 -- $1,000 a year. Is she just going out and buying abortions? I mean, are the prophylactics with the pills she's taking, are they made with like gold flake à la Dave Chappelle's ballin' skit from Chappelle's Show. I don't get it. [KFTK, The Dana Show, 3/2/12]

Loesch: Fluke Is “Doing It More Than She's Studying In Law School. ... They Act Like They're Nymphos.” On her radio show, Loesch said of Fluke: “She's doing it more than she's studying in law school. Is that why our -- is that why law sucks lately? Is that why we're having such a problem in our courts?” Loesch also said, “They act like they're nymphos. That's what they act like.” [KFTK, The Dana Show, 2/28/12]

Loesch: Fluke “Is Likely Not Having Monogamous Sex With The Same Man Approximately 2.74 Times A Day, Every Day, For Three Straight Years.” From Loesch's March 2 Big Journalism post:

Instead of projecting surrogate modesty towards Fluke, they project it towards Limbaugh, who is calling the truth for what it is. Fluke, a 30 year-old (presented as a 23 year-old college coed by the media) women's activist/professional student, is likely not having monogamous sex with the same man approximately 2.74 times a day, every day, for three straight years (in order to satisfy the calculations about which she felt confident enough to present during a congressional testimony). If she is, kudos! But promiscuity is not the hallmark of a virtuous woman. Is it Limbaugh's fault for pointing it out or Fluke's fault for the behavior? It's a rhetorical question and the answer proved Limbaugh's entire point.

The real war on women is being perpetuated upon us by our own sex; women who seek to place us under the control of a pimp-daddy government by demanding it cover all our needs, in exchange for control, or force private entities to do so in its stead. [Big Journalism, 3/2/12]