>>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:

Here is what she actually said:

“A friend of mine, for example, has polycystic ovarian syndrome, and she has to take prescription birth control to stop cysts from growing on her ovaries. Her prescription is technically covered by Georgetown’s insurance because it’s not intended to prevent pregnancy. Unfortunately, under many religious institutions and insurance plans, it wouldn’t be. There would be no exception for other medical needs."

"Technically" covered? Meaning that it IS covered except that she gets it somewhere else like all the other students. And needless to say, the evil other religious institutions are not named- probably because they are an invented grievance like the rest of the example.

>>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.)

Nobody forces them to take the insurance or to attend Georgetown. Perhaps these complaining students should check out their own parents' plans that often allow coverage of dependents including students until the age of 26.

Seems to me that if there truly were no alternative, these people could approach insurers to create their own competing plan that includes contraception: if what we are told is true, their plan would be flooded with takers, premiums would fall and the Georgetown plan would be shown up. Of course that's not as much fun as forcing somebody to comply with your wishes by wrapping it in false grievance and portrayals of women as helpless creatures who make decisions to attend a Catholic university and then can't cope.

The fact is that Georgetown is flooded with applications from people of all religious persuasions. People who can't live with the university's policies need not apply! Some other youngster will be delighted to take their place and manage their own fertility without creating a huge cause de jour.