http://www.theblaze.com/stories/sandra-fluke-a-fake-victim-of-
georgetowns-policy-on-contraceptives/
Since her controversial testimony on February 23, Sandra Fluke
has been called many things, from a heroine to a �slut,� but
actually, she may just be a fake. Gateway Pundit and Hot Air
suggest that may be the case, with citations to a post by Jammie
Wearing Fools that introduces the following interesting
information:
For me the interesting part of the story is the ever-evolving
�coed�. I put that in quotes because in the beginning she was
described as a Georgetown law student. It was then revealed that
prior to attending Georgetown she was an active women�s right
advocate. In one of her first interviews she is quoted as
talking about how she reviewed Georgetown�s insurance policy
prior to committing to attend, and seeing that it didn�t cover
contraceptive services, she decided to attend with the express
purpose of battling this policy. During this time, she was
described as a 23-year-old coed. Magically, at the same time
Congress is debating the forced coverage of contraception, she
appears and is even brought to Capitol Hill to testify. This
morning, in an interview with Matt Lauer on the Today show, it
was revealed that she is 30 years old, NOT the 23 that had been
reported all along.
Though there aren�t links in the original post to the content
mentioned, a little digging shows that it�s all true. Fluke has
described herself as a third year law student at Georgetown
University, and indeed, that is what she is. However, contrary
to the narrative of innocent victimhood that portrays Fluke as a
wide-eyed 23-year-old girl caught without contraception on a
college campus full of predatory men, Fluke herself is really a
30-year-old women�s rights activist who not only didn�t get
caught without contraception at Georgetown, but specifically
knew the university didn�t cover it and chose to attend for
precisely that reason.
First, there�s the matter of Fluke�s age. In a segment on
Fluke�s battle with Rush Limbaugh, MSNBC reporter Anne Williams
called Fluke �the 23-year-old Georgetown law student, prohibited
from testifying.� Yet Fluke�s own Linkedin profile reveals a
more mature woman:
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In fact, according to that profile, she graduated from college
in 2003. Barring Fluke being a child prodigy who somehow
graduated college at the age of 15, this would make her at least
30 years old:
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It�s worth noting the massive number of women�s issues groups
Fluke was involved in, even while in college.
Now, to be fair, Fluke�s age could have been misreported by the
media. Most 3rd year law students are at least 25, and they
could have confused her for being an undergraduate senior rather
than a 3rd year law student.
The idea that Fluke is herself an unwitting victim of
Georgetown�s policy on contraceptives is another matter
entirely. In several interviews, especially following Rush
Limbaugh�s attack, 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.
But what if she not only decided to attend the university
anyway, but decided to attend specifically so she could fight
this battle? Consider this passage from an early Washington Post
story done on Fluke before she was permitted to testify:
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,�
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.
Fluke says she would have used the hearing to talk about the
students at Georgetown that don�t have birth control covered,
and what that�s meant for them. �I wanted to be able to share
their stories,� she says. �My testimony would have been about
women who have been affected by their policy, who have medical
needs and have suffered dire consequences..?.?.The committee did
not get to hear real stories I had to share, about actual women
who have been dramatically affected by this policy.�
That�s right. It seems Fluke intentionally chose to go to
Georgetown so she could agitate and sway them to cover
contraceptives. She then went to a hearing as a representative
of women who hadn�t known about Georgetown�s policy until it was
too late. Unsympathetic observers might liken this to James
O�Keefe attending a hearing to speak against ACORN on behalf of
pimps. It certainly raises the question of why the women Fluke
claims to speak for couldn�t present their stories for
themselves.
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:
If Fluke�s stories are real, many will likely call on her to let
the women who sent them speak for themselves and stop hogging
the spotlight, given that she did choose to attend Georgetown
knowing full well what its policy was on contraceptives, and
with every indication of being willing to risk the price tag �
whether that price tag would be $3000 over 3 years or not.