The Left's Schadenfreude Fraud

By Jan LaRue

Schadenfreude, according to Webster, is "enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others." It encapsulates the essence of women using government to force others to pay for their contraception. The fraud is in hustling the con as a women's health issue. It makes sense only to abortion zealots who think pregnancy is a disease or a parasite. The grand dame of abortion rights, Minority House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), held a little Republican-bashing session with three members of the "House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee" on Feb. 23, which she and her media friends passed off as a "congressional hearing." Pelosi said the "hearing" was for taking "testimony" from Sandra Fluke, a 30-year-old third-year student at Georgetown University Law School. According to Pelosi, Fluke "was blocked from testifying at a recent Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA)." Also blocked were 312 million other Americans irrelevant to the hearing topic. Pelosi introduced Fluke as "the president and secretary of the Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice," which,.... (Read Full Article)