Right Wing Jaw-Dropper: ‘Sex-Crazed Co-Eds Going Broke Buying Birth Control’
Race via ShutterstockOK, we have a winner in today’s Wingnut Jaw-Dropper Sweepstakes, an article at religious right website cnsnews.com by Craig Bannister that reads like an exaggerated parody of right wing misogyny — but it’s not: Sex-Crazed Co-Eds Going Broke Buying Birth Control, Student Tells Pelosi Hearing Touting Freebie Mandate.
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.
Bannister seems to think that the more sex women have, the more birth control pills they need to take — and at his expense, dammit!
$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.
The rise of Rick Santorum seems to have opened the floodgates of right wing reactionary prudery, rushing back on a scale unseen since the 1950s.
