From the HUFFINGTON POST:
…[Rush] Limbaugh made the argument on his radio show Wednesday that Fluke’s desire for birth control was a promotion of casual sex.
“What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex — what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute,” Limbaugh said. “She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.” …
“If the far right can attack people like Sandra Fluke, women are going to be afraid to speak because they’re going to be called terrible words. It’s an attempt to silence people that are speaking out for women,” [Rep. Carolyn] Maloney said…
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Limbaugh is nothing more than an over-sexed, chauvinistic ass…
Birth control does not equal a woman having sex. Unlike condoms, a woman needs a prescription for birth control. Why should that not be covered by health insurance? Especially when many women, even with health insurance, won’t use birth control even when prescribed because it’s so damned expensive.
And that’s a shame, because it’s not only used as a contraceptive. Many women need birth control to regulate their menstrual cycles and/or to relieve the physical pain they get from their cycles because they are so bad.
Many of those women could very well be virgins, or sexually abstinent. But heaven forbid they request their birth control be covered by their insurance, because then that must mean that they are just sluts.
Even if a woman is having sex and wants to be on the pill, at least she is take some form of preventative measure against pregnancy. And with many bitching about people milking the system via their children, you would think they would embrace the idea of insurance helping towards population control.
Did fatuous fatboy issue a fatwa?
BTW, who pays for Rush Limbaugh’s Viagra? and does that make Rush a slut?