Law Student Mired in Birth Control Debate
Published: Thursday, March 1, 2012
Updated: Sunday, March 4, 2012 00:03
"We have been working very hard with getting people to notice this issue to show that Georgetown students are invested in this. I am glad that media attention has been brought to it," she said. "It just feels that the decision is being made by other people that aren't being affected by it."
13 comments
Anonymous
Baloney. The commerce clause is just the excuse that is used to justify unconstitutional government control of the people. Everyone who has studied the Constitution knows, if they are honest, that the intent of the commerce clause was to prevent trade barriers being placed by one state on the goods produced by another state. Now, it has been used to justify governmental authority in controlling every aspect of an individual's life - even including matter such as how much food you can grow for your own use. Oh, but the Supreme Court could never be wrong - can you say Dred Scott! This is now a battle between those whom believe in invididual freedom,inalienable rights coming from God and individual responsibility (and the Constitution as originally framed) versus those who believe in collective rights granted by the government (and taken away by the government) at the expense of the individual (those who believe that the Constitution is something to be twisted and distorted to accomplish their political goals).
Anonymous
Ding ding ding! You are correct, the commerce clause gives the federal government this power. It's not an "excuse," it's the supreme law of the land.
Anonymous
Three years at GeoTown Law costs $212,000 (including housing.) It's 215K if you have to buy your own BC. Aside from condoms handed out for free at some locations, GeoTown students must walk a whole 1/2 mile to a pharmacy to buy BC. That route is often uphill both ways while snowing. In the meantime, what part of the US Constitution says the government can force a company to provide certain health care? (Maybe the commerce clause...that's usually a good excuse.) Perhaps someone can argue the constitutionality of this issue.
Lauren
So why hasn't the issue of Safe Sex come up in this. You can take birth control all day long, but it is not going to protect you from STDs.
Anonymous
Just because someone files a lawsuit doesn't mean they're right.
Anonymous
In response to the 23:01 2 Maech GULC graduate, who apparently doen't believe that the Constitution provides for a federal govrnment with specified, limited powers,Already, seven state attorneys general have sued the Obama administration over its order requiring some religious employers to cover birth control in their employees' healthcare plans. In the suit, the states argue that the White House infringed on the religious freedoms protected by the First Amendment."This violation of the [First] Amendment is a threat to every American, regardless of religious faith," Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning said in a news release. "We will not stand idly by while our constitutionally guaranteed liberties are discarded by an administration that has sworn to uphold them."Hard to believe that you are a licensed attorney.
Anonymous
As another GULC grad, all I'll say is that I get the feeling that the GULC grad who posted at 15:03 clearly didn't take Con Law II. What a joke.
Fact-checker
It's $3,000 for THREE years, not one year, but that's beside the point.
Anonymous
i completely agree with the previous comment. There is something much larger at stake here - freedom of religion and freedom of conscience. Stand on the side of liberty.
CAS and GULC grad
Georgetown's president cotinues to prove that Georgetwon is no longer a Catholic University. He feels that it is more appropriate to come to the assistance of a law school student who is apparently so promiscuous that she spends over $3000/year for birth control, instead of standing up for Catholic morals. Further, Fluke is openly encouraging the federal government, to violate the 1st Amendment rights of the Church by compelling Catholic organizations not only to provide birth but to provide it for free. Mind you, no pharmaceuticals required to keep a person alive are provided for free but recreational drugs, like the pill, should be! I'm sure that Fluke would also like free abortifactants, as is being pushed by Obama. Ironically, In defending Fluke, Georgetown President John DeGioia, after making uncivil comments about Rush Limbaugh and after failing to stand with the Catholic Bishops on this 1st Amendment violation, said that this is our moment to stand for the values of civility. So Georgetown, civility is now more important than morality.
Anonymous
That first anonymous comment is extremely offensive. What about all the women who take birth control as a preventive measure? (i.e. preventing them from getting cervical cancer).
Anonymous
What a distugsting comment!
Millions of woman use different forms of birthcontrol each year, it is not a "habit". It is used for the obvious, as well as to control a number of other issues that go along with being a woman. There are far more things that the government pay for that should be cut out of the budget. Birthcontrol should not be considered as one of them.
Millions of woman use different forms of birthcontrol each year, it is not a "habit". It is used for the obvious, as well as to control a number of other issues that go along with being a woman. There are far more things that the government pay for that should be cut out of the budget. Birthcontrol should not be considered as one of them.
Anonymous
I'll gladly pay for permanent sterilization for Ms. Fluke - it would be a far less costly option than being forced to subsidize her $3000.00 a year habit.
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