Actually the Democrats had someone else to speak for the Congressional committee on this topic. It was a guy named Barry Lynn who the Democrats presented as a witness to help make their case for the imposing of unconstitutional mandates that the Church must provide contraceptives to it's university students. He was vetted and cleared to testify.

The Democrats then changed the program and insisted that the unvetted Sandra Fluke testify as they wanted to put a women's face on the issue and this 30 year old political women's right activist, who has also fought to have employers pay for trans-gender surgery for it's employees, testify.

The Republicans, per Rep. Issa, refused this last minute addition of the unvetted Ms. Fluke and in response Nancy Pelosi conducted a news conference set up to look like a Congressional hearing to present Ms. Fluke in her call for "free contraceptives for everyone" at the Roman Catholic Church's expense.

Sandra Fluke, this 30-year-old birth control activist then gives unverified and inexpert testimony about how Georgetown's long-standing and public policy has hurt her unnamed friends.

The Democrats used Sandra Fluke to create a controversy, while Sandra Fluke used them to advance her agenda, which is to force a religious institution to abandon their principles in order to meet hers.

This is all a ploy to resurrect for public consumption that oldie but goodie "The Republicans hate women" mantra. This is supposed to turn around polls indicating that Obama has lost ground among women voters.