As the public battle over contraception rages on, Rush Limbaugh and his allies are also fighting over a footnote: The Georgetown University health care plan that sparked the debate may actually cover birth control in some of the medical situations that activist Sandra Fluke made part of her case.
That detail may not change the politics of the issue, which slipped out of the GOP’s grasp when Limbaugh called Fluke a “slut” (an attack for which he later apologized). But a look at the publicly available summary of Georgetown’s health care plan, and at elements of Fluke’s testimony, suggest that Georgetown’s policy is in line with the traditional Catholic teaching that allows the use of the birth control pill for reasons other than preventing pregnancy.
According to Georgetown’s student insurance handbook, available online, there are exceptions to the Jesuit school’s rule against covering birth control, which are “specifically provided in the policy.”
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