It can get worse than that according to Ms. Fluke's testimony. I trolled a few other forums etc and got the impression that this is very common with Georgetown students. Even with a specific medical diagnosis the student health care denies oral contraceptives, even with specific medial orders and copies of all the diagnostics. Its not done by medical personnel but Georgetown administrators.
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > so it's a matter of how obnoxious that process is, I guess, if anyone wants > to make something of it. It looks like a gender-specific requirement to me, > though. > > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> Terms of coverage part way down the faq >> http://studentaffairs.georgetown.edu/insurance/faqs.html >> >> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> it's the only thing approaching a valid argument on the other side of >> the >> >> issue, Sam. Valid argument, meet Sam, Sam meet valid argument. Some >> >> Catholic institutions say they should not have to pay to include >> >> contraceptives in coverage they are funding for their students and/or >> >> employees, since their religious beliefs say that contraception is >> wrong. >> >> Geez. You are making me do all the work here. Of course, it hasn't >> been >> >> demonstrated that it costs more to cover contraception, but hey, >> there's a >> >> First Amendment claim that isn't completely laughable. You're welcome. >> >> Anyway, that has all the makings of a supreme court case, eventually -- >> the >> >> right to not be messed with vs the right to believe that women do not >> have >> >> a right to not be messed with. Anyway, getting back to Fluke, none of >> that >> >> applies to student insurance at Georgetown if it is true that Georgetown >> >> doesn't subsidize it at all. On what basis would Georgetown have a First >> >> Amendment claim? PT is right. Either come off auto-pilot or STFU for a >> >> while, geez. >> >> >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> >>> I don't see how you can construe a First Amendment right to dictate >> >> health >> >> >> care you aren't paying for. >> >> > >> >> > wa? >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347961 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
