>>Dude you are soooo missing the point. The concept here is that you shouldn't have to go somewhere else to begin with...geeze.

The concept here is that nobody has to go to Georgetown. You need the university to take care of your contraceptive needs? Probably best not to apply to a Jesuit university in that case. Next we'll have people demanding the right to buy ham sandwiches in a Kosher restaurant and claiming the Jews are trying to starve people if they refuse. The idea that the Jesuits should be forced to deny their deeply held convictions because people knowingly apply and then act helpless, doesn't fly very far once you strip away all the claptrap grafted onto it.

>>And furthermore that 98% statistic appears to be correct to the point its common knowledge.

LOL, why would I want to undermine such an own-goal? ;-) If at least 98% already have access to contraception, why do you need to force religious entities to provide it contrary to deeply held convictions? Not even the Bolsheviks would have agreed with that.

If you want to address access to contraception, prestigious universities are completely the wrong target. The stats show that unwanted pregnancy is an issue for poor populations without a high school diploma, especially in the South and Southwest, and especially for poor black populations who are least likely to benefit from these insurance changes. Focus should be on accessible family planning for those populations, not on forcing denial of deeply-held convictions at a prestigious university on the East Coast because a student insists against all the evidence that she is part of the disadvantaged statistic.

Besides, if people really want to improve women's health, surely the first target should be breast cancer which is the leading cause of mortality for women in the USA. It affects 1 in 8 women and there are huge disparities in screening and preventive care. It's no use to university activists because they're too young to complain about access to care and it's already free in their insurance, but it's the numero uno cause of death in the wider community and there are real benefits to be achieved.