>Not excusing anybody's behavior, but somebody who chooses to attend a Catholic University and then lobbies for it to be forced to provide her with contraceptives, is a bit like somebody purchasing land next to a runway and then lobbying for planes to be banned because they're so noisy. If you know the conditions when you choose to go someplace, then you gotta show some "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" common sense. Nobody is forcing anybody to go to Rome and people in the US have a dizzying array of university choices to suit every taste. Also we should remember that students have a long and glorious history of attention-seeking rebellion for its own sake. Surely nobody really believes that students in Catholic universities need free contraceptives from the Jesuits or babies will be bursting out of the cloisters. So let them have their fun, then get on with important business.

FWIW, the story she told wasn't her own. It was about a friend who need birth control pills for some other condition and failure to get them resulted in loss of an ovary. Here's the transcript of her testimony:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/boxofficebuz/transcript-of-testimony-by-sandra-fluke-48z2

FWIW, it also appears that the students pay for the insurance; the university is just making the plan available. (That matches what I remember from buying a kid a college health insurance plan.)

Tamar