Where would the funding come from?? just asking..
Did you miss the part where I said the students at Georgetown U purchase their own health care plans, unsubsidized by the university? The university simply chose to eliminate contraceptive coverage from that plan.
As for Mr. Eisel's other query, I'll let Ms. Fluke's testimony answer that:
“In the media lately, some conservative Catholic organizations have been asking what did we expect when we enroll in a Catholic school?
“We can only answer that we expected women to be treated equally, to not have our school create untenable burdens that impede our academic success.
“We expected that our schools would live up to the Jesuit creed of ‘cura personalis‘ – to care for the whole person – by meeting all of our medical needs.
“We expected that when we told our universities of the problem this policy created for us as students, they would help us.
“We expected that when 94% of students oppose the policy the university would respect our choices regarding insurance students pay for – completely unsubsidized by the university.
“We did not expect that women would be told in the national media that we should have gone to school elsewhere.
“And even if that meant going to a less prestigious university, we refuse to pick between a quality education and our health. And we resent that in the 21st century, anyone think it’s acceptable to ask us to make this choice simply because we are women.
“Many of the women whose stories I’ve shared today are Catholic women. So ours is not a war against the church. It is a struggle for the access to the health care we need.
“The President of the Association of Jesuit Colleges has shared that Jesuit colleges and the universities appreciate the modifications to the rule announced recently. Religious concerns are addressed and women get the health care they need. And I sincerely hope that that is something we can all agree upon.
“Thank you very much.”
P.S. Kate, thanks for the followup info. Being a married man of a certain age, I admit some ignorance as to the full availability of female birth control options. Perhaps someone better in-the-know can comment on whether these suggestions (written by another middle-aged guy) are appropriate substitutes.