Sandra Fluke, the current darling of the Left, crusader for forcing religious institutions like Georgetown to provide health insurance that pays for contraception, thinks private employers should also be required to offer policies that cover sex change operations.
The failure to cover gender reassignment is discriminatory, in Fluke's world.
She's been exposed as an activist and an extremist, with a well-defined agenda, a willing tool for the Democrats.
Read about the way the Democrats forced activist Fluke into the spotlight.
From the Washington Examiner:
"The Democrats played games with us the day before [the hearing]," says a Republican committee source. "After days of asking for a witness, they waited until the last minute, the afternoon before the hearing. They asked us to invite Rev. Barry Lynn [head of Americans United for Separation of Church and State] and Ms. Fluke. We said we'll invite one, per standard procedure. We formally invited Rev. Lynn, and the Democrats, at 4:30 pm, changed their mind and said they wanted Fluke. We said too late. They told Rev. Lynn not to show up the next day."
When the hearing took place, Democrats proceeded to clobber Republicans. "Where are the women?" asked New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney as she looked at the all-male first panel for the hearing. (Two women testified in the hearing's second panel, but Maloney and her fellow Democrats ignored that.)
Issa explained that Democrats had requested Barry Lynn, that Lynn was invited, and that Democrats then retracted the Lynn request. As for Fluke, Issa said Republicans had never heard of the Democrats' last-minute choice. "I asked our staff what is her background, what has she done," Issa said at the hearing. "They did the usual that we do when we're not provided the three days and the forms to go with it. They did a Google search. They looked and found that she was, in fact, and is a college student who appears to have become energized over this issue and participated in approximately a 45-minute press conference…I cannot and will not arbitrarily take a majority or minority witness if they do not have the appropriate credentials, both for a hearing at the full committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and if we cannot vet them in a timely fashion." (Fluke is in fact a 30 year-old law student with an extensive history of activism in leftist causes.)
...So Issa had his reasons for refusing to give Fluke a spot. And indeed, as it turned out, she didn't have much to say. The entire basis of her testimony to the Democratic Steering Committee the next week was that she had "a friend" who had a medical problem that required her to take birth control pills. Georgetown's policy covers her friend's condition, Fluke said, but did not actually pay for the pills, which caused her friend to stop purchasing and taking the pills and, later, to suffer a medical emergency. It was all pretty vague, and certainly wasn't expert testimony.
Now that Fluke is in the spotlight, and there has been time to find out more about her activism and extremism, the Democrats and Obama might have regrets about choosing her to be the face of their campaign to appeal to women voters.
When Fluke made her statements to the Democratic Steering Committee, she told stories about "friends." Vague stuff.
Her article in the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, "Employment Discrimination Against LGBTQ Persons," coedited with Karen Hu, reveals she expects religious institutions like Georgetown to provide dramatically more than contraceptive coverage in insurance policies.
Stephen Gutowski summarizes Fluke's stance:
"Gender reassignment" is a medically necessary set of procedures that must be covered under employee provided health insurance policies. If it is not covered by those policies that is tantamount to discrimination and legal action should be taken against the employer.
I suspect Democrats will continue to paint Fluke as a victim and dismiss Fluke's radicalism.
I doubt they want the American public to be fully informed when it comes to Sandra Fluke.
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Neal Boortz: Who is Sandra Fluke?
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