Rush Limbaugh Doubles Down On Sandra Fluke, Offering ‘As Much Aspirin to Put Between Her Knees As She Wants’

This is the kind of thing from the right that turns off Americans.

If she had a monogamous relationship and only had sex once a month the cost of birth control pills would be the same.

Better that abortions be performed?

This is slander and nonsense and he should be ashamed of himself. The above comment that parrot’s this hate speak (in all capital letters) comes from the kind of person who makes me ashamed to be an American.

Leave it to Limbaugh to conflate health care with promiscuous sex. Idiot Limbaugh does not even know how the pill works and assumes you need to take more BC pills when you engage in more sex. He thinks the pill is a spermicide. And he willfully rejects any evidence that the pill has medicinal value beyond contraception. A woman who needs BC pills to control the growth of painful and potentially life threatening ovarian cysts is just a slut in his eyes. Never mind those cysts reduce her chances of motherhood which probably weighs heavily on her. No, she’s just a sex addict and a person of no virtue and deserving of his contempt. Like pretty much any person who does not make 30 million a year. He is an odious and hideous tool. How he sleeps at night is more than I can comprehend. This from the man who condemned drug users to death all while popping 30 or more Oxycontin pills per day and pimping out his maid to get them for him.

A slut AND a prostitute. I guess it takes one to know one.

Better be careful ‘fat man’…Breitbart met his maker today. Who knows, maybe we’ll be lucky and your number will come up next. I really hope so. People like you are the kind of jerks that have turned politics into the divisive mess it is.

I’m trying to think of one woman I know who would go before the public and state she needed thousands of dollars worth of birth control every year. I can’t name one. America’s youth used to fight for things like civil rights, now they demand everyone else pay for them to have fun. What a sad generation.

Sandra, get yourself an attorney. And it doesn’t have to be an expensive one. You have been defamed by Rush Limbaugh. For all his bluster, he doesn’t actually cross the line very often. But this is one of those occasions when he, who knows better, has deliberately misrepresented the character of a private citizen. Good luck.

3000 dollars a year is a made up number meant, by the Dems, to get just the reaction its getting, contraception was not and is not a real issue. There are plenty of free and discounted options out there, I would hope someone attending college would be smart enough to know that. If we are to pay for womens contraception why don’t we also pay for toothpaste? That is a health issue is it not? This whole made up issue, the lies, misinformation and the overall supression of the truth by the mainstream media and the democrats they are in bed with is repulsive at best. If their contrception was truly a health issue it WOULD be covered by their insurer, why should the few actual taxpaying americans be forced to pay for her time on her back? Where is the individual responsibility here?

I guess we all can’t force our maids to go purchase drugs for us like Rush. I hope she puts her law education to good use and sues the pig for slander. There are 11 states that already have this rule and not a peep was heard when they enacted their legislation. It’s only because it’s Obama that everyone is up in arms. And for the uneducated among us the cost of birth control pills are the same regardless of how much sex you have or if you are taking them for medical reasons. Rush is not only a loud-mouthed drug addict, he’s uneducated as well.

She’s the one who should be ashamed of herself. The idea of asking the rest of us to pay for her birth control.

I am not paying for her to have sex. Slut

this isn’t about sex or ovarian cysts, it’s about the churches obeying the law of the land when it comes to healthcare. I may not like our wars in the mid-east or the existence of capital punishment, but I know I pay my taxes because I am part of the american social contract. religion isn’t above the laws of the US… and if it thinks it is then it’s time for the American people to treat it as an enemy not a friend

Perhaps people who don’t listen to Rush should listen to him and not the spin from the MSM.

If a woman or man “and” their chosen sex objects can’t afford to pay for their own birth control then they need to stop having sex. The country is not responsible to pay for the sexual appetite of college students, or anyone else for that matter.

If the girl wants the school or insurance company provided by the school to pay for her birth control/abortifacients then she should change schools and go to a secular liberal institute of social engineering. Can’t have it both ways.

Glenn Beck said the same thing yesterday. Slut and Hoe? You just called 98% of catholics sluts and hoes for using birth control. You people are idiots being led by Rush and Glenn. You are on the wrong side of this. Thanks for helping Obama get re-elected!

He’s right.

Seriously, if she can afford Georgetown, she can afford her own birth control.

If she can afford Georgetown, she can afford to pay for her own birth control.

I listened to Limbaugh’s show and the aspirin comment was purposely used for humor. If you’re a liberal go a dictionary and look up the word. G’town charges $60k per year and seems she has no problem affording that. But the White House has become the pimp house. Woody Allen once said that he had been practicing birth control when he asked women to go to bed with him and they all said “no”.

Sandra Fluke was chosen to testify before Congress because she came from a so-called Catholic school. They didn’t fool real Catholics. We know that Georgetown hasn’t been a Catholic school for decades. Then poor Sandra told everyone in the country she is a slut and so were her fellow students. Talk about a deformed conscience – she did not even know she should be ashamed of her behavior. At least Daryll Issa had the decency to deny this woman’s testimony in his committee. The democrats once again used a woman to make a fool of herself and allowed her become a target for derision to advance their libertine agenda. The democrats have no shame and neither do their voters.

Gawd, maybe Breitbart needs some company. Limbaugh is the perfect choice.

If men could get pregnant, this would be a non-issue. So would abortion….

How hard is it for you to be responsible for yourself??? If you want to have a sex life. Fine, dont make me pay for it!!! Cradle to grave entitlement. This is what the left wants. Sandra Fluke is a absolute joke!!

For some reason I have seen an overwhelming number of closed-minded and limited comments listed. Birth control isn’t a liberal or conservative issue, it’s a family issue and a woman’s perogative. Ms. Fluke was a college student, true, but at some point she will be entering the workforce, and she will be dependent on workplace insurance for her coverage. She was talking about her future. I am a married mother, who has no intentions of having another child. My personal choice for contracpetion is birth control pills, and without coverage, they would be expensive. Latex allergies make condoms a no-go. While I can have more children, according to doctor’s advice I shouldn’t. Should I am my husband stop having sex? Am I a slut for taking the pill in an effort to protect my life.
Men, your daughters are listening, your sisters are listening, and your mothers are disgusted. Many of you sound as though you aren’t familiar with modern sex. Women get on top now, too!

Why do some people think that everyone else should be responsible for paying them to have sex? Also, I looked up the definition of “prostitution” and I here’s what I found…. pros•ti•tu•tion — { Pronunciation: (pros”ti-tOO’shun, -tyOO’-), [key]
—n. 1. the act or practice of engaging in sexual intercourse for money.
2. base or unworthy use, as of talent or ability. } Fluke demands to be paid to have sex, Rush says that’s prostitution. According to the definition, he’s correct.

You republicans fail to see birth control medication is not used for just intercourse. I lot of that stuff prevents cervical cancer and a variety of other women’s diseases. Why are you all vilifying this girl?

All she did was testify before Congress and now there’s a right wing conservative mob that would like to lynch her.

Its a new form of WELFARE the libs are pushing…

RUSH IS RIGHT AGAIN!

Rush Limbaugh, the guy who got busted with illegal prescription boner pills, calling someone a slut? Hahahahahahahahaha!

The left is destroying the morals in America? Hmmm….I guess ignorance really is bliss.

Rush Limbaugh is not only correct but he’s entertaining you while your learning…he’s the best teacher out their and one of the only ones telling the truth…this idio, Fluke, could go to a cheaper college so she could afford to pay for your own health care but she said NO, I’ll go to this college and then to Congress, tell the world I have so much sex I can’t afford to pay for the protection myself so I want the insurance companies to pay for it and in the meantime she gets her name plastered all over the news…she LOVES it. Really, this whole issue is hysterical. People on the left should listen to their argument – it is such a silly argument and not believable. Finally, WE NEED to take care of ourselves and stop thinking it is governments job. This is not a woman’s health care issue – its political. The greedy politiicians just want more control over our lives.

First, I do not think that forcing insurance companies to provide contraception (as solely a contraceptive) at no cost to members is constitutional.

Second, I think that if the Catholic church is so against contraception, it should call out and condemn its members for using them as well and not just take a stand against the government for forcing them to allow it.

Lastly, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and all of these other right wing guys are way over the line. Either they are so ignorant on the subject of birth control pills that they do not realize that you do not take more pills for more sex or they are purposefully twisting words to paint this woman in an extremely negative light. She never said that the cost was $1000/year (over 3 years) for condoms. It was specifically talking about birth control pills. Yet they are calling her a slut and doing calculations on how many times she has sex a day (Beck, 2.74) based on using $1 condoms as the form of contraception. Then they use this information to generalize her as a slut. That does not sit well with me. It’s petty name calling and childish behavior.

You conservative republicans remind me of the lynch mob in “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Let’s just take her out and stone her because she had the nerve to testify before that good old boys club.

Rush Limbaugh is a joke; he’ll say anything to improve his ratings and seldom knows what he is talking about.

How about an amendment to Obamacare (vs. executive fiat)…The Fluking-Slut Amendment?

If you can afford Georgetown at 50K per year, you can afford birth control. You have just been lawyered.

This “man” depends on a dumb-as-dirt audience, and he has a very large audience in the US. Sometimes it is very disheartening to read how stupid many in our nation have become. I blame FOX and Limbaugh, et al, but it is possible they were just born that way! Great argument for government sponsored birth control.

This is a LABOR Law Issue, not a Religious Freedom issue. The hatred and ignorance of many of these comments is unbelievable. First, you clearly hate the idea of women controlling their sex lives. Do you have daughters? What Century do we live in? Would you prefer they get pregnant? Wonder if you would call a young man who has sex before marriage “a slut.” Second, many don’t understand math: 3 yrs law school/ $3000 = $1,000/yr, for 12 mos = $83/mo. In 80s, w/ health ins, I paid $30/mo, so 27 yrs later, $83/mo does not sound out of line. Cost is the same if you have sex 1x/yr or 365x! U can’t count on men using a condom. Lastly, as Ms. Fluke stated, not ALL women who take contraceptive pills for birth control. It is also used for endometriosis, cysts, and other reasons, like hormone control during menopause.

Why does Rush say that she’s “having so much sex that she can’t afford her birth control pills”?

Does he think that more sex means you need more pills?

As far as I know, it’s one a day, they don’t start working for a month, and, well, if you have sex once a year vs. 100 times/day, it’s the same quantity of hormones.

“you clearly hate the idea of women controlling their sex lives”

You can’t tell the difference between a woman controlling her sex life, and wanting taxpayers to control her sex life.

He’s really a pig. Honestly and truly. He knows he’s manipulating the thinking of thousands of people who take his word as gospel. Lest we forget the years he was smashed on oxycontin, doctor shopping for his prescriptions, which he can clearly afford on his inflated salary. His fat surgery. His plasctic surgery, his multiple wives. He whined like a baby when he lost his hearing and then got state of the art inplant hearing aids – which are NOT covered under most people’s insurance policies. He’s an elitist pig. A woman can take birth control one day at a time. It doesn’t work that way. It’s not like condoms, where you use it once and done. Whether you use it for a medical condition or contraception, you have to buy it by the month. He’s just a moron.

My favorite comment so far: Close your legs, and open your books.

3-Year Georgetown University Law Degree: $180,000.
24-Pack of Condoms: $12.
Having the audacity to stand before a Congressional Committee and proclaiming that you can’t afford to pay an additional $3,000 over the course of three years for contraception ($3,000 / $12 = 250 boxes of condoms over 3 years–or 83.333 boxes per year–each containing 24 condoms = 2,000 condoms a year/365 days = 5.48 sexual encounters requiring a condom *PER DAY*): Priceless. Oh, and calling her a slut really is unfair… to sluts. Most prostitutes would would kill to have those stats.

tmferretti, I know that birth control pills cause breast cancer and blood clots as well as other hormonal abnormalities and does not prevent the spread of sexual diseases, but does incidentally promote venereal disease. as well as INCREASING the chances of cervical cancer (not preventing it), jaundice, suppression of the immune system, and also known to cause complications in future pregnancies. There have also been cases where the use of contraceptive pills have led to ectopic pregnancies and even miscarriages. It is also common for women who use the pill to go through mood swings, depression, and anxiety. It can even lead to high blood pressure and cholesterol. Still if a woman chooses this anyway, she can budget for it herself. I shouldn’t have includes other women’s demands for birth control pills in my budget.

Do you commenters agreeing with Rush really not understand that you don’t take more birth control pills when you have more sex? It’s one pill every day, whether you’re a virgin or sexually active. So my question is, are you stupid or lying?

The girl is an idiot. Birth control is cheap. Like many of her age, she laughably misunderstands the concept of “insurance”. Health insurance is a bet by a group of individuals (see “corporation” for you lefties) that they can collect more in premiums than they have to pay out for ILLNESSES and other MEDICAL PROBLEMS and the associated costs to cure those illnesses and medical problems. PREGNANCY is neither an illness nor a medical problem. PAY FOR IT YOURSELF OR GET YOUR FRIGGING BOYFRIENDS TO PAY FOR IT (or “Johns”, as in the case of Ms. Fluke, apparently). Are we clear, kiddies?

the war on women continues

I have known anyone to allege that Mr. Limbaugh has too much sophistication and is too open-minded in his thinking.

Sandra Fluke should definitely sue Limbaugh for slander and defamation of character. He must be losing it to make comments like that!

Sounds like ol’ Rushbo may be a “fired host talking”. He’s headed for deep doo doo with this nonsense.

its amazing that he has an issue with birth control which is a responsible thing to do. I am surprised he does not have an issue with paying to Diabetes medications or Cholestrerol, the majoraty of people who take these medications are overweight by choice and why should I/we have to pay for these individuals and yes Rush i am sure your your one of them judding from the looks of you. You could stand to lose a few pounds. So instead of worrying about woman being responsable for there health, maybe you and all the other obese people should learn from this and start being responsable for your health and lose some weight.

My interest in the religions and morals protection has nothing to do with female reproduction if I do not employ any young women. But I do have a moral problem paying for people who refuse to alter their lifestyle and lose weight or stop eating salt, and expect me to pay higher rates for their costly visits to the doctor and ridiculous medicines. I do not believe in using medicines except in extreme cases, like an infection after a necessary surgery. I consider it immoral to interfere with the signs the Lord sends us to let us know that we are doing something wrong. If your blood pressure is up, eat right and slow down, and pray for inner peace. If medicine was part of God’s plan, there would not be so many bad side effects. Some employees have to go to the doctor because their medications have caused more problems! With the money I will save when I can finally stop paying for unnecessary medication and doctors’ visits. I can give raises to the people who deserve them. Let people who believe medicine can replace good living shop around for other employers.

Also, according to the Washington Post, Sandra Fluke enrolled in Georgetown knowing full well what their policy on birth control and contraceptives was:

“Fluke came to Georgetown University interested in contraceptive coverage: She researched the Jesuit college’s health plans for students before enrolling, and found that birth control was not included. “I decided I was absolutely not willing to compromise the quality of my education in exchange for my health care,” says Fluke, who has spent the past three years lobbying the administration to change its policy on the issue.”

If this is indeed accurate, then Sandra Fluke primary goal for enrolling in a Catholic University was to force them to violate their own religious doctrines.

For God’s sake whether a woman decides to have sex once a year or every day does not change the amount of birth control pills she needs. You take the pill every day whether you have sex or not. And some women take the pill to avoid the risk of pregnancy but a significant number of women take it purely for medical reasons. Limbaugh is a sexist pig who does not know anything about women.

For those who apparently never passed sex ed, you are suppose to use condoms and oral contraceptives in concert with each other, condoms help prevent against disease and unwanted pregnancy but they break so oral contraception is there as a catch all for pregnancy.Oh by the way some people have latex allergies so those people’s only choice for protection agianst pregnancy is oral contraceptives.More than just the blatant hatred of women (I am a dude by the way) this issue shows the rampant ignorance that is acceptable in today’s America. My sister’s bestfriend is able to have kids today because of oral contraceptives that saved her ovaries while she was in college, I’m not sure if it is the say illness that Miss Flukes friend was diagnosed with. They also help control my girlfriend’s menstruation which became irregular a few months ago Please idiots and your idiot representatives keep your hands of my sister, my sister’s friends, my girlfriend, and my mother.

I hope this young woman sues this idiot for slander today!! I can’t understand why the idiots he works for don’t kick him off the air!! Too bad the Republicans, bow to this Limbaugh idiot, we need the real Republican party back.

Back in ’89 we used to stop pounding nails and eat lunch while we listened to Rush. He was funny and light hearted. Well the times have changed. We had no idea how much money would be connected to hate. I am personally discusted with Mr. Limbaugh. It’t time for him to retire and go fishing. Adios, Rushbo…..I’d like to slap the white off that fat face of yours. You betrayed us, you lied to us. Anyone who says he hopes the President of our country will fail is no friend of mine.

Rush is an idiot. And more than that the right wing nut jobs that pay homage to him are even bigger idiots. If this country is ever driven to a civil war the primary cause will be the ignorance and intolerance of the right wing conservatives. It amazes me to read all these comments about a person being a slut and I should not have to pay, when i’m sure that the majority of those making these comments have benefited from a govt subsidized program at some point. So that makes them idiots and hypocrits.

Rush was making a joke. What do you call a woman who is paid to have sex? Get it? This woman wants someone else to pay for her birth control, get it? She wants someone else to pay for her to have sex, get it? She can go to any clinic and get free birth control. She just saw an opportunity to make a name for herself, get it? Rush isn’t against women or birth control. Like most people, he thinks people should pay their own way through life. This woman will graduate from Georgetown Law School, become one of the 1%, and will probably still expect somebody else to pay for her birth control. Only in America. I listened to Rush that day while I was eating lunch. He meant it as a joke, get it? By the way, you can go to his website and read or listen to every word of his show. The media hacks are liars. Go to his website and read it for yourself.

such a classy, young lady. Her response to Limbaugh’s comments was shear grace and dignity.

If that was a joke it was not funny!!!

Seriously? There are people defending what was said? Obviously you have NO sense of attachment to reality. I just want to use this comment to pull together some of what other people have said and some things that I know.
1. Sandra was speaking about women as a whole, not just herself. So all of you people that are saying she can afford to attend Georgetown, but not condoms, you are idiots. She is speaking about the issue in general, and supporting it for everyone, not just herself.
2. There are many more birth control types than just condoms, which seems to be big news to you people. She is obviously referring to something more along the lines of the pill, which is taken everyday, once a day. You take it everyday, once a day whether you are having sex 80 times a day or never having sex at all. It is constant, so the idea that the more sex you have, the more it costs is absurd.
3. She is not asking you to pay for other people’s birth control. She is asking for it to be covered by insurance. You people are the reason there isn’t universal health care, so you should know that the taxpayers are not paying for other people’s health care. The coverage is through your job. So relax.
4. Probably most importantly, you people are completely ignoring the fact that birth control is medically necessary for some people. My doctor prescribed birth control to me because I get cysts on my ovaries and uterus. These can become cancerous, or interfere with fertility later in life. They’re also massively painful. Also, I had really terrible periods that were so bad they were interfering with my life.

So, now that we have our facts straight, please stop trashing someone’s character who you don’t know.

If only Rush’s mother had put an aspirin or 2 between her legs.

OK, it seems pretty clear that most of those who are characterizing Ms. Fluke as a slut are A) virgins and B) not very good readers. Ms. Fluke says that the birth control might cost up to $3000 over the span of her law school years. That’s 3 years. That’s about $80 per month for birth control. And kids, that’s what it costs.

It’s probably a lot cheaper than all those fully insurance-covered vasectomies that men get.

About 98% of women take birth control at some point in their lives. So 98% of American women must be sluts.

Birth control is a social good. It prevents unwanted children. It reduces the poverty in which our children and families live. It allows families to financially care for the children they have.

And don’t look now, but both men and women benefit from birth control. Because, boys and girls, each of those girl sluts has a boy slut right there in bed with her. Go upstairs to the living room and ask mom and dad. They will confirm that that is the way sex happens.

I’m sure that the characterization of women who use birth control as sluts is coincides with a religious conviction that includes an anti-abortion stance. If you want to limit abortions, you need to have cheap and ready access to birth control. You can’t have it both ways. And if you think you can, you need to grow up. Or look at the evidence from all of human history.

People have sex. It happens, even though it really upsets you. We cover men’s contraceptive methods in insurance plans, and no one is calling them names.

We get it. Women’s bodies really terrify you, but you need to get over it.

Dudes a certified clown. LOL

Why does she need the pill? She can swallow or take it in the red eye.

I am amazed by the amount of horrifically rude and naive comments made about this young intelligent woman. God loves everyone. There it’s as simple as that. Why is it such a big deal that women want birth control in their insurance? There is nothing wrong with women taking birth control, it does not mean they are sluts or any more promiscuous than any one else. Precautions should be taken if you are going to have a physical relationship with someone. The one thing that really irritates me is that these decisions are being made by pompous wealthy men whose only worry is what color tie they want to wear to work.

This young lady has more class than to respond to a low-life sewer rat. He is just soiling himself in his own filth and the sight of this young lady excites him so much that he just can’t help restrain himself and therefore has to talk trash to cover up his “excitement” at the topic. Sewer rats will drown themselves in their own filth at some point, so way to go rush!

To me Jim Bob Jr sounds like a girl, or at least types like one.
The abortions performed due to “date rape” are so minuscule, you make it sound like all the women having abortions have been raped and that’s not the case. Who ever tries using that argument is being disingenuous.
I don’t hear anyone saying they want rape victims to keep the baby, there are many loving families that would love to adopt, that would be the right thing to do.
One last thing to ponder, if it’s illegal for me to destroy eagle eggs or sea turtle eggs what makes it okay to stop a human being?

too much aspirin will kill her. his comment good for Playboy magazine

She had a right to birth control, just as she has the right to own a car or a home. But nobody should be required to buy it for her.

It’s the same with healthcare. You have the right to it, but not to tell doctors what they can charge for it, nor do the people in the class that don’t have thrones money for healthcare have the right to charge the class with the money for their healthcare.

Where is the equal protection under the law? How is one segment of the public responsible for the costs of another?

Mike

Limbaugh is the perfect mascot for the GOP. He shows the world just how vile the Republican Party has become.

Rush Limbaugh is a beautiful human being. It’s unfortunate, in a way, that he is unique, because we need many more like him. No one but Sandra the Flake should be required to pay for Sandra the Flake’s birth control.

Rush Limbaugh got a $400,000,000 contract with Clear Channel and a few months later Clear Channel fired 1,800 people to save $400,000,000. A couple of months later Rush Limbaugh made jokes on his radio show about him not feeling the recession. I’ll bet those 1,800 families are still feeling it. Limbaugh is disgusting. (being NBC is afraid of the biggist radio station owner in the world, it will be interesting to see if they post this).

Rush knows his audience and what he can get them to believe; which is anything he says. So he doesn’t need to be at all concerned about any kind of sanction.

1000 $ a year… that is the cost of the pill and beer & whip cream & cherrys i dont think that is so bad NOT

Isn’t It Ironic? The food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to “please do not feed the animals” because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves.

I know I’m in the minority in this discussion, but I don’t care. I believe that Mr. Limbaugh is a pompous a$$ who spins every fact to suit himself. I got disgusted listening to him several years ago, and have refused to listen to his nonsense ever since.

I also believe that every woman should have free access to birth control, period. I also believe that cancelling a few worthless government programs to pay for it would be a much better use of taxpayer’s dollars. The only involvement that the Catholic church and others that object to birth control would have is paying their taxes. I suspect such organizations would scream their heads off if such a plan were implemented, but on the other hand, women that belong to such organizations don’t have to request free birth control.

One more thing. People in this discussion are making fun of each other. I once made fun of an acquaintance many many years ago, and two days later he died of a heart attack. I still feel guilty about that, and I no longer make fun of anybody.

Charlie Brown

Why not provide all types of “free” medicine to everyone? Why stop at contraception? Why should millionaires and billionaires get “free” contraceptives? The inmates are truly running the asylum! Who would believe that the top topic for the 2012 Presidential cycle would be “FREE” contraceptives and not the out of control economy, wars in the Middle East, ballooning deficit spending and challenges to the founding principles of our country!

Birth control is not just condoms it comes in many forms and is used for many different reasons. A one month supply of the pill can cost over a hundred dollars. I can no longer get pregnant, but still have to use birth control to keep my hormones level. They use birth control to regulate periods and also to control heavy bleeding and combat extreme pain that some women suffer with during a period. Using birth control does not make u slut . Rush is a bloated wind bag who has no business saying anything about birth control. As far as im concerned no man does. When they start bleeding once a month and have to deal with the pain and inconvenience that having a period causes, or when they can carry a child and give birth naturally then and only then will i give a damn about what a man thinks about birth control. To bad Rush’s mother didnt take birth control, hes one person the world would be better off without.

Call me dumb, but I grew up watching James Bond movies where he would have random sex with all kinds of women and leave them smiling. Men seemed to be able to flaunt their promiscuity and be viewed as more manly for it. If all these women, and the mistresses of our politicians, were not using birth control, would that be acceptable? Why is Rush so mad? He is the one percent and his insurance pays for ALL his medications, without passing judgment.

Rush is the poster child for why birth control is needed. Funny how the ones with so many ex-wives and former addictions are so high on morals. He is disgusting and will reap what he sows.

Women – we have to stick together. There are fools out here who really want to be able to make calls on what happens in a woman’s body without understand what they are talking about. If you use birth control you’re a slut and the people who pay should be allowed to watch you have sex? I know you want to see the pap smears of ALL the women who use birth control pills. They can be broadcast in 3D. Might as well get your money’s worth, since I’m sure you’re just going broke watching your money fly away with every prescription.

Insurance companies will cover fertility medications for people who want to get pregnant, but can get away with no cover contraceptives for those who don’t. There are probably as many married women on birth control simply because having a child doesn’t fit into their current family situation at this time as there are unmarried women. There are many, many women who must use birth control pills for hormonal regulation to treat serious conditions. The insurance companies don’t care if a woman has to take them because without them she bleeds heavily for 25 days out of the month or is so overwhelmed with pain that she misses a week or more of work every month. Next thing you know, they will want to deny insurance coverage for hysterectomies because they think women just want to get rid of the uterus just so they won’t get pregnant. What? Your body is infested with tumors that are growing because your hormones cause them to? Put an aspirin between your legs, you SLUT! I am one of those women who needed birth control for hormonal regulation, and you know what, conservatives? I’m a virgin who now will never have the opportunity to have a child.

Why is it the folks ranting against this young lady have such a hard time understanding the article. So many of them say something like $3000 a year! I guess reading comprehension was not one of their subjects in school. Their hero, RL, said distinctly in the article: “Three thousand dollars for birth control in three years? That’s a thousand dollars a year of sex”
Just shows the level of intelligence of some of these uniformed people is a result of very very poor reading habits!

I really can’t believe that Rush is getting $400 million over 8 years for his brand of uneducated tirades. Seriously, talk radio is getting is paying him around a million a week to spew hatred? How do they ever get enough ads to pay his pay, in his time slot? Is someone else fronting the money for him to continue to dumb down his listeners?

Have any of you actually taken birth control pills? You don’t take more pills to have more sex. One pill a day, one package per month.

Clearly the majority of you missed health class in 8th grade…

“I really can’t believe that Rush is getting $400 million over 8 years for his brand of uneducated tirades.”
POSTED BY: LIBRARIAN53
More amazing still: Obama got elected president. But he won’t get re-elected.

While looking to see how Clear Channel, Limbaugh’s employer can afford to pay him a $50 million a year I learned some interesting facts. Clear Channel is a the largest radio station group owner in the U.S.
In 2008 two private equity firms bought out the company and announced plans to go private. One of those firms was Bain Capital, Romney’s old firm. All of the tv stations were sold as well as 161 radio stations. In 2009 Clear Channel announced it was facing bankruptcy because of crippling debt. They laid off 2400 employees soon after announcing Limbaugh’s $400 million 8 year contract.

$3000 a year for contraceptives? Right. Not.

“While looking to see how Clear Channel, Limbaugh’s employer can afford to pay him a $50 million a year…blah, whine, and blah…”
POSTED BY: LIBRARIAN53
Still bitter about the failure of msnbc and air america? LOL!

I’m a nice married lady who pays for my own insurance out of pocket. My insurance does not cover prescriptions. The only birth control that works for me without causing severe nausea is called Nuva Ring and it costs $68-87 a month. Over the course of a college education it would easily cost $3000. Google it.

Drugs are drugs, and what happens between a woman and her doctor is none of your damn business. Cover all prescriptions equally or not at all. You don’t hear me complaining about the expensive statin drugs you need because you ate like crap your whole life? Not even your spendy chemo therapy required because you chose to be a smoker and now you’re dying of cancer.

I was ignoring this story until a friend pointed out how ugly many of the comments were. I am disgusted and horrified at many of your reactions more than I could ever be disturbed by that silly blowhard of a man.

Thanks MG, despite your intentions, your self-righteous and pompous book cracked me up.

Rush got himself publicity, it’s what the living large junkie does. With respect to the many uninformed GOP supporters posting here, as a retired medical practitioner I can verify that the pill is often prescribed for medical reasons not simply as a form of contraception. I am actually surprised at the absence of knowledge on this subject by those posting in opposition. As well, having men discuss women’s issues is akin to asking an auto mechanic to fix your plumbing.

Limpuke is nothing but a Rich Puppet. He is controlled by those who made him. Puppet on a string

Contraceptives aren’t just for sex. For the past few years, I’ve been on birth control because during my cycle I suffer from serious cramps that on several occasion have on several occasions sent me to the hospital. Before I was prescribed birth control, I had to take tranquilizers. The pill is a medicine just like any other pill. The notion that sluts and prostitutes use it because they have so much sex is absolutely outlandish. I’d also like to point out that Miss Fluke wasn’t saying that she personally paid $3k a year, she was saying an uninsured person POTENTIALLY could.

Wow, lots of juvenile posting tonight. No one ever said anything about the government providing free contraceptives to everyone, or on the taxpayers’ dime. No more than has been done for decades via Medicaid.

Norah is telling the absolute truth. Many women have to take prescribed contraceptives for endometriosis, severe bleeding or cramps, and many other conditions. Many married women with families have to take them.

“to post moronic childish comments.”
POSTED BY: JIM
No, seriously, JIM, these people defending Fluke’s stupid monologue are for real, or at least as real as such folks can be.

Regardless of your social conscious on contraception, we should as citizens of this great nation have mutual respect for our fellow citizens. Without that basic tenant, we lose the glue that holds any great society together.

We are all entitled to our opinions, and we have in this great country the right to speak freely. However, we are not protected from the consequences of those words.

However much you disagree with Ms. Fluke, she was fully respectful of her audience and venue, when she spoke on Capitol Hill. Most people will agree that Rush Limbaugh’s words were malicious, inflammatory, and disrespectful.

Rush Limbaugh has the conscience of a pig, but lacks its intelligence. I expect nothing from him, but I strongly condemn the silence and capitulation of those who sponsor his vile and vicious tirades. Premier Radio should fire him and offer apologies for his attack on Ms. Fluke. My preference is the way of the old west. “Hang ‘im, boys! It’ll teach him not to mess with the women folk.”

Jim, you don’t believe that contraceptives are prescribed for medical conditions? Many women use them to combat painful periods, hormonal imbalances, ovarian cysts, and a variety of other things.

Common Denominator, your post is my favorite by far and I agree absolutely. Even when you disagree with a person’s views, you should still be respectful towards them. Limbaugh comments (and many comments on this site!) were misogynistic and unnecessary. It’s possible to argue one’s point without stooping to such lows. I can’t believe he called her a prostitute. That’s so hateful.

Jim, you don’t believe that contraceptives are prescribed for medical conditions? Many woman use them for hormonal imbalances, painful periods, ovarian cysts and so on and so forth.

Common Denominator, I agree completely. I think Miss Fluke has handled these attacks gracefully. Shame on Limbaugh for making such unnecessary and misogynistic comments. He should be able to argue his point without stooping to such lows.

Not to mention an erosion of freedom and liberty. How dare the government to even consider such things. They are way off base.

While it is true that contraceptive pills can be used to treat other medical conditions such as ovarian cysts, controling menstrul cyles, etc. (and the Catholic Chruch does say it’s all right if they used SOLELY to treat those medical conditions), they are NOT cures for those conditions, nor are they the only medical methods for treating those conditions. The proof is that once you get off them, your symptoms flare up again. So Sandra Fluke’s friend who had ovarian cysts may still have had to undergo ovarian surgery even if she was prescribed brith control pills. Also, let’s not forget that birth control pills, patches, rings and injections do run the risk of causing blod clots, strokes, cancer and infertility.

Will the people who post here please read the facts before posting!! I see post after post asserting that Ms. Fluke wants you, the taxpayer, to pay for her birth control. Limbaugh got that wrong and so so do you. She testified that her privately-purchased insurance wasn’t covering it, and that it should. Almost all insurance covers birth control.

Has Rush been doctor shopping again? Can we get him another 60 days in rehab? Oh, wait. Can’t afford that since he has alimony for 3 ex wives not to mention the serial shopper he’s married to now. Four wives and no children. Hmmmmm, could the marriages be a cover up for being in the closet?

This woman redefines the word PIG. She can afford to go to one of the most expensive schools on the ENTIRE PLANET and wants OTHER PEOPLE to pay for her contraception?? Shows why we need to end insurance for routine medical care, end insurance mandates, and put people into medical savings accounts.

Just reading these comments…makes me lose all hope for this country…

The remarks make Limbaugh look like an idiot. All other issues aside, the amount females pay for oral contraceptives does not fluctuate based on the amount of sex they may be having. All other medical uses aside, this fact alone negates his argument. He has been irrelevant since his drug days anyway. That sort of blatant hypocrisy softens any real impact he could ever have on anyone who is actually paying attention.

I wonder if Rush feels the same way about prescription coverage for Viagara as he does for birth control. Where are those videos Rush?

Limbaugh must be feeling like he’s not getting enough attention, what with all the Republican candidate’s headline-making nonsense lately, so he’s decided to outdo them in the outrageous department. But he leapt solar systems with his contention that having insurance-covered birth control is the same as being paid for sex.

The Republicans SHOULD denounce his outrageous statements, but they won’t, at least not publicly. But by not doing so they continue to let that publicity-seeking nutcase drive their agenda. After November he’ll be pushing hard for impeachment – will they follow him then? It worked so well the last time.

Hope Limbaugh chokes on his vitriol.

LMFAO! Some of you are so ignorant it’s laughable…..You think the only use for birth control pills is to prevent pregnancies? Guess what? You’re wrong! I started taking it when I was 20 because I was having irregular bleeding, cramps, missing my period all together, etc. I was NOT having sex with ANYONE because I think it should be something you only do with someone you LOVE. Oh and my insurance pays for most of it…..I guess I’m a slut, right? Morons…………………………

Prior to hearing Limbaugh, I was on the fence about contraceptives. After hearing Limbaugh it reminded me of days of the past where male bigotry towards women was perfectly ok. Of husbands that beat wives for not “obeying”. Of lack of understanding what it means to live life as a woman instead of a man. Of male sexual narcissism that leads down paths where women are overwhelmingly the victims of sexual abuse. Before I was on the fence, now I’m clearly on the side of women and sponsoring contraceptives. Rush, you’re a FAIL!

“I will buy all of the women at Georgetown University as much aspirin to put between their knees as they want,” he said…..

I think women would be satisfied with just having the birth control pills, Mighty kind of you, tho.

dont forget this isn’t just birth control for her, it’s birth control for ALL women, including married women. ANd ‘birth control’ is HORMONE THERAPY that helps with many many many things in a women’s menstrual cycle problems and plenty ofwomen who do not have sex at all, take birth control pills so they can not have the effects of their period deride them every month for a week! I would LOVE for someone to give Rush the symptoms of a menstrual cycle every three weeks and see if he isn’t running to his doctor seeking some help!! And then have some women call him names over the radio because of it. He has NO IDEA why this women is taking hormone therapy. He is vile and disgusting and a women hater. Funny how ugly men tend to hate women when women being repulsed by them is their own fault.

I can’t help but wonder:

A. What sort of man marries a Bridezilla

and

B. What sort of woman marries someone like Limbaugh

WOULD NEVER PAY FOR MY DAUGHHTERS PILLS WHY WOULD I PAY FOR YOURS?—— She’s in law school, so her undergrad degree is already done and she’ smart enough and successful enough to be accepted in one of the top law schools in the country. My guess – she’s alot smarter than you and will have a much more lucrative career and future than you, so i’d try to protect that and tell her to double down on her birth control if she has a boy friend – use the pill and a condom every single time!!! 2 – she may suffer bad menstrual cycles and with the work load of law school, you dont get to walk around in pain for a week every three weeks distracting you from your work. She may need the hormone therapy.l 3 – She is probably around 25 years old. By 25 my mother had 3 or 4 kids and plenty of sex. She’s of fine age to have sexual relationships with men, and i dont want her marrying as a virgin. I want her to know what she wants in a man when she gets married and I want her knowing everything there is to kno wabout that man including his sexuality and how he is intimately. I dont want her to marry anyone unless she knows him sexually and in every other way. many reasons. many.

Laughing at the ones saying, “hey if she can’t afford birth control then don’t have sex” LOL Ok nevermind her, YOU quit having sex. Ever. In fact, go down and have your sex organs removed since you feel so strongly against one of the most fundamental and pleasurable of all human activities. Since God gave you these organs and made it pleasurable, intimate and joyous, rather than just functional, renounce God while you’re at it! And if you’re a female supporting comments made by this BIGOT Limbaugh who can’t keep a wife, renounce yourself!

I will personally pay for this woman to have birth control as long as she has sex with me, and no one but me, for as long as I’m paying for it.

No one is saying she can’t have birth control. Just pay for it herself. Sex is a choice.

I don’t understand why no one is getting to the real issue. the catholic hospitals are accepting government money to run there hospital, but do not want to provide coverage for something that is commonly covered on normal insurance. it is not an issue of religious persecution. if they don’t want to provide contraception, stop taking government money. Taxpayers aren’t paying for her contraception. They are paying for the running of these hospitals to be run. Her insurance pays for her contraception. All of this other stuff is smoke and mirrors by religious conservatives to cry religious persecution and sidetrack from issues that really matter in an election year. and as far as calling this women names, there is more reasons to take birth control than preventing pregnancy. And if you as taxpayers don’t want to pay for her contraception, why not make her insurance provided by the catholic hospitals pay for it? People need to know the facts of this story, instead of listening to a few people spouting untruths. Grow up, people! We aren’t in grade school anymore, and we don’t solve anything by believing the school bully(Rush Limbaugh), and then call this girl names!

It is not MY responsibilty to make sure her sexual urges are fulfilled.—WHY IS MEN’s IMPOTENCY DRUGS COVERED FOR UNMARRIED MEN?????????????????????? YOU ARE PAYING FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE SEX>>>YOU PAY FOR MEN TO HAVE SEX REGARDLESS OF IF THEY ARE MARRIED OR NOT!!THAT IS THE WHOLE point! DISCRIMINATION!!!!!

“Hope Limbaugh chokes on his vitriol.”
POSTED BY: CHRISTINE
Hope Ms. Fluke chokes on something else. LOL.

OK. So he’s losing it. Aspirin between the legs? Tell me what the hell “having so much six you can’t afford birth control” means? Is he implying she’s paying for sex??? Limbaugh has said some stupid things over the years, but this one takes the cake.

We should talk about what we can do FOR our country—HOW ABOUT STOP CRAPPING ON WOMEN!!!!! Women have a emnstrual cycle every month!!! there a billion issues that go along with that and hormone therapy helps with ALOT of them. HOrmone therapy ALSO stops you from getting pregnant! BECAUSE the right wants to be control women, oppress them, they do things like this, like call her names and a slut while unmarried men are being paid by insurance companies tohave sex every day!!!!! Sometimes when you rope the black man to truck and drag him through the street you NEED thegovernment to say “NO THAT IS JUST WRONG!” this is one of those times. She should sue him for defamation of character on the air, he has NO IDEA why she’s taking birth control ! When someone ASSAULTS a women and thinks that’s ok, because she MIGHT be having sex, and if a single women is having sex then, hey, all bets are off, she has NO VALUE as a human being, when do the good men of this country stand up and say “THAT IS JUST WRONG!!!” BE MEN! stand up to this creep!

Let’s see…Conservatives don’t want to pay for birth control, don’t want to pay to support mothers and children on welfare, and are against abortion. They want their way, where all 3 issues are concerned, and as a result, they’ll never get their way, where ANY of these issues are concerned.

Guess I can’t blame them for all their hyperventilating.

The list doesn’t end with contraceptions.

I know people who don’t have dental. Or if they have dental it pays a max of $1000. So when your dental bill is $4000 – you pay $3000 out of your pocket.

If you go on down the list of things in life that cost money – who’s going to pay for it?

If the answer is the government, let me tell you, contraceptions are the tip of the iceberg.

There are a lot of big nasty bills you can get in life, and the Nancy Pelosi needs to start cutting checks.

Any women who would ever support a republican candidate would really have to have her head examined. Republicans, if they were allowed, would strip every last freedom for women and outlaw contraception all together so even a married women would have no say over how many kids she had, i’m sure voting and owning property right would be stripped as well. Republicans are neanderthals. Seriously. LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAY!!!!!! You’re soft as a grape if you support the right wing. They are the Taliban.

Limbaugh could use some Midol.

Why do people think birth control = promiscuity? —–it doesn’t. But…so what if it did. Clearly the little blue pill is only for having sex. only sex. and nobody cares. nobody is having a hissy fit saying that health insurance companies need to stop paying for that. Nobody says check to see only married males are getting it. Nobody calls themselves pimps for paying for men to have sex. Nobody is calling out men who have sex outside marriage sluts. Why only crap on women??????? The hypocracy of this issue is the point. It’s the entire point. It’s DISCRIMINATION.

As much as some are venting about all of this, including me earlier, it is no big deal. Our focus needs to remain on the many difficult issues confronting the gay and lesbian communities, not the slutty behavior of a the privileged few heterosexuals.

Wow he is a despicable person. How dare he say such vulgar things about a woman! Regardless of what he believes….does he think speaking in this vile way makes him “a good person”. I believe Hell is waiting for him!

Oh and I just decided that I am for sure voting for Obama now!

Sandra Fluke is an idiot and so is Nancy Pelosi.

“Oh and I just decided that I am for sure voting for Obama now!”
POSTED BY: LIZ
Congrats on now becoming a useful idiot. Was it painful?

Many people clearly don’t understand insurance. It’s not a handout. You and your employer pay for it. You pay the premiums – in return you get the coverage. Contraception is much less expensive for the insurance company to cover than pregnancy/prenatal care, birthing and care of a new person. This has nothing to do with economics. It’s all about choosing one particular facet of health-care (contraception) that has a link to a behavior (sexual activity) that people think they have the right to judge others on, and using that to cry religious persecution. This has nothing to do with YOU paying for anyone’s sex. It’s about the system, to which we pay into, being allowed to do it’s job, and provide the services paid for, without a bunch of religious pontificating about whether the system should cover this or that.

As usual, Rush is right.

Just yet another case of conservative destroying progressive.

Sooner or later you’d think people would wake up from the nightmare and realize that progressive is responsibility for so many of our problems today. Yet I have my doubts. As evident by so many that post on this blog that are progressives, it is clear they have their heads so far up their backsides that they have to open their mouths to look forward. So I have my doubts that they will ever wake from their nightmare anytime soon.

Here’s to hope.

We wouldn’t even be having this “conversation” if men could be responsible adults and control their sexual urges until they’re prepared to accept the potential consequences. That’s the one sure proof method of birth control men will not even consider while they argue “sex is a choice”: It’s not up to a priest, a boss or any of you to decide whether oral contraceptives are the best method to treat a specific medical condition, to prevent a potentially dangerous pregnancy or simply to provide birth control.
If you know anything about costs, you know insurance costs are lowered by including prescription contraceptive drugs. I, for one, would prefer not to pay the higher dollar and societal costs associated with unplanned and unwanted pregnancies. Again, this becomes a non-issue if and when those busy ranting over this issue realize how childish and selfish they sound as they lap up what this inane windbag, Limbaugh, spews forth. It seems the bygone days of the aptly named male chauvinist pig have returned with all the attendant refusal by men to accept their biological role in conception. Put bluntly, keep it in your pants, men, and the problem is totally solved at no cost to anyone. By the way, what exactly is the male equivalent term for “slut”?

“Sandra Fluke is an idiot and so is Nancy Pelosi.”
POSTED BY: ANNA
“Quite obviously so. Rush is also obviously right if the ant hill of libs is this stirred up. Truth to libs is like a crucifix to a vampire.”
POSTED BY: JACK KNIFE
Yep. The airheaded tizzy that some have worked themselves into is much like a spoiled and naughty schoolgirl who has gotten grounded for the weekend.

I would encourage all women to stop watching or listening to any station radio or TV that carries this pervert’s trash show. I know I will. And remember a ditto mark is an empty quote.

Samm Dickens: Apparently the object of my statements as regards to government interference in individual freedom went over your head. So, I’ll say it in simple terms: Get out of our bedrooms and mind your own business! If individuals wants to allow a church into their private lives, that’s their business and their choice, but when government takes on that role, the choice, and therefore one’s freedom, disappears.

“…this pervert’s trash show…”
POSTED BY: STEVE
Fluke doesn’t have a “show” — she just made asinine comments in front of Congress.
“Just pointing that out, above, but it concerns me not, personally, since I don’t need any contraceptives. Being gay has its advantages.”
POSTED BY: STEVE
Then why bother being so silly?

You’re not going to stop people from having sex unless you make the females wear chastity belts and feed saltpeter to the males. It is a basic animal instinct. That said, what is the lesser of the 2 evils? Unprotected sex resulting in unwanted pregnancies, unwanted kids, abortions, etc. Or protected sex, avoiding the “unwanted” items. The bottom line is we are going to pay no matter what the outcome so let’s try to reduce how much we pay. Don’t want to pay for contraception then we shouldn’t be paying for blue pills either. Who knows, maybe the easy availability of the blue pills can lead to increased unwanted pregnancies. (And it’s a question of discrimination – why are we allowing him to have sex, because he can get his blue pills, but not her, because she cannot get contraception?). We all pay for the HC of people without insurance. Every trip made to an ER by an indigent is paid with our taxes.

Fluke says it is these stories that she wanted to share at the hearing, including one about a friend with polycystic ovarian syndrome whose insurance did not cover the birth control medication that would treat it. Her friend could not keep up with out-of-pocket payments, Fluke said, and ultimately had to have surgery to remove her entire ovary. The friend continues to suffer from complications of the surgery, Fluke said. I don’t understand.
Why are people calling this young lady a slut? I used Birth Control to control an excess bleeding condition and finial had to have my uterine lining burned off I had tumors that were not operable. Without BC my quality of life would have suffered. I think Rush Lin and all these public figures spewing this ridiculous hate against my fellow sisters is evil and they all should be tarred and feathered.

Am I the only one that finds this whole thing completely and entirely ridiculous? I don’t like Rush Limbaugh for a number of reasons but has anyone stopped to think of the consequences of a country dependent on birth control? What if the birth rate in the United States suddenly plumetted like it has in European countries(it already has slightly)? There have been many studies done that show that there is a connection between declining birth rates and economic downturns. There is the whole entire other social issue when it comes to “out-of-wedlock” births which causes further strain on tax payers wallets but where is the consequence of having sex as you please with whoever you want other than the buldging warts and puss that is now around 25% of Americans in their lifetime. My main point is that this is a cultural issue, I doubt its something we’re going to be able to change overnight and it may actually get worse but paying for everyone’s birth control is not something I’m willing to do. On a side note I am not against “hormonal modifiers” such as when women require hormonal medication to treat certain ovarian diseases, they are complete and totally different issues and anyone that treats them the same is ignorant. I try to approach this issue from a purely logical approach but being a Christian does bias my opinion, I think god will frown upon a country that willingly gives out birth control for free.

“If she did sue for defamation, she’d better make sure she’s not a “slut.” An absolute defense to defamation is truth.”
POSTED BY: BOBBY WILLISTON
She can’t sue for anything, obviously, unless she wishes to sue her parents for raising her so poorly.

“If she did sue for defamation, she’d better make sure she’s not a “slut.” An absolute defense to defamation is truth.”
POSTED BY: BOBBY WILLISTON
“She can’t sue for anything, obviously, unless she wishes to sue her parents for raising her so poorly.”
POSTED BY: JAMICA
And I don’t know, but I’d bet her parents are “proud” of her for making a silly spectacle of herself.

She chose to be public figure -defam not likely … Gov’t to pay for this too? Shouldn’t they pay for booze too to help get ‘em in the mood? Booze is way moe expensive then condoms…. we should also pick up hotel tabs or require schools to have conjugal rooms!!!!

What do the Democrats have against babies??—Obama said he didn’t want his daughters “punished with a baby”. In 2002 Obama voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act while a Senator in Chicago. Yesterday HHS Secretary Sebilus said that the increased cost of birth control would be offset since their would be less children born!! WOW

1. Hormonal birth control is used to treat several women’s reproductive health issues, not just as pregnancy prevention.
2. It’s cheaper than welfare.
3. If it really is about the money and pregnancy prevention, vasectomies are cheap. And reversible 75% of the time. ( Oh, wait. Men taking responsibility for pregnancy prevention? Messing with their junk? Surely I jest!)

I want and demand that my health care provide all of the following, totally free to me, for my health naturally:
1) Vitamins (Good for my overall health).
2) A nose job (My current large nose causes me stress, hence very unhealthy).
3) A gym membership (Exercise is good for my health).
And (4)…A long vacation to the mountains (Fresher air would definitely improve my health).
Yes, and on and on it goes — endless demands and wishes.
POSTED BY: WHAT I WANT
“Yes, I want and demand a new sports car, to help improve my sex life, which will surely be covered.”
POSTED BY: FELIX HORNBLOWER
Pot should also be covered. It relaxes me, and is thus good for my health.

She is not a “slut”. She just has mucho sex with mucho people. It’s the college way.

Lets just have the administration and their buddies in the Senate add an amendment that states “no one will be responsible for any personal actions, no matter how warped or depraved, and any resulting medical conditions will be paid for in full by the taxpayers of the United States of America”. I figure that covers just about anything that a person needs..and we can just raise the debt limit AGAIN to cover it…that should keep the Liberals happy!

Rush is the last person who should be lecturing anyone on morality.

Jim | March 2, 2012, 10:39 am 10:39 am We have a small minded person that is using other peoples names. I agree with you that Rush is an idiot and someone needs to cap off his mouth. As for this fake person I gave him the name of “Heehoo flung dung”. Maybe this will help you distinguish the difference.

Far from women bashing..its called personal responsibility, something Liberals do not understand.

Mean, ugly, untruthful, obscene, denigrating of another’s character without knowledge nor inquiry of such character: mild words and compassionate ones, not matched extreme ones for this angry man with pent up and uncontrolled and uncontrollable rage whose mission these past years seems to reflect a gathering of like minds, also angry at a falling out with the world in which they live.

Education, which can bring with it wisdom, would seem to be the only viable response.

Just go AWAY RUSH, you are the stupidist man alive

Far from women bashing.— ALL it is women bashing! Look at your candidates! Santorum says women who are raped should see the pregnancies of their violent rapist as a blessing. Then he says contraception is wrong…..ALL contraception. So????? Women, married women, should not have any control over their lives, their bodies, they should not deny their husbands sex, of course,and when they continue to keep getting pregnant, well, just be good little women and pump out those babies year after year until you die and shut up about it. Men, unmarried men, get their little blue pills paid for by health insurance!!! MY premiums, my money, is being used to help unmarried men have sex and has ever since it’s come out. And NOBODY CARED that unmarried men are having sex!!!!! But women, oh my God, unmarried WOMEN having sex????????? throw her into a pit and stone her to death! My Lord, the republicans sound like the Taliban. HOW do you claim it has anything to do with morals, at all, when for YEARS we have been paying for PLENTY of people to have unmarried sex????? ALL those people have been men! Where is the moral outrage???? where is the “keep your pants on” for men? It is 100% women hating. There is REAL slippery slope that Republicans have zoomed down, already, from wanting to outlaw abortion, to outlawing contraception, to…what’s next? Women’s right to vote? owning property? I have never seen such massive women hating wanting to rip control of their own lives away from women and oppress them in this country since BEFORE the 1950s. It’s alarming and if you think I’m the only women who has noticed it, you will find out, come November when you NO WOMEN voting for republicans. They are repulsed, en masse. I promise you that.

Angus, weird fantasy, that! If you added the reality that there aren’t enough jobs for the number of people who need them due to out-sourcing, modernization, overuse of temps and part-time workers (no health care or sick days, etc.) it changes the picture doesn’t it? It isn’t like your story of the ant and grasshopper, because both of them had equal access to food that could be saved for the winter. The picture in the U.S. and much of the world for folks out of work is similar to the game of musical chairs, except there are only enough chairs for 85% of the players. Should the 15% die of starvation or lack of medical attention because the greediest of the 1% set up this broken economy?

While I dont think taxpayers should be paying for this womens birth control —why not? birth contro, contraception ,is a medical issue, is it not? Hormone therapy? Women use birth control to control endometriosis. Is that not a medical condition? Women who do not have sex use birth control to lessen their periods. Is that not a medical condition? is pain NOT a medical condition? Do you agree that health insurance should pay for the little blue pill???? A very expensive prescription that has ONE reason and one reason only – to allow the person to have sex. Why haven’t we had this entire discussion on the blue pill years ago??? why no moral outrage that my premiums pay for unmarried peopl e to have sex? To give the prescription ONLY to married men if it’s ‘moral’ and why in God’s name is giving contraception to married women immoral????? WHY do republicans hate women so much??? this is women hating. Women bashing. picking on women ONLY about their possible POSSIBLE sex lives while not caring ONE BIT that we have been paying for unmarried men’s sex lives for YEARS!!!! Why do we pay for invitro fertilization???? why??? You KNOW mosts of those embryos get thrown out! not only is that paying for interfering in what God made happen, an infertile couple, it results in abortions of embryos.???

Are Republicans so out of touch that they forget what it’s like to be young and sexually active? Or do they honestly still think that having sex before marriage is a “sin” and makes you a slut? Hell, even sex within marriage still requires contraception. My wife used the pill. I guess she’s a slut. Maybe you’re like Rick Santorum and only have sex for procreation purposes. This whole thing is a laugh. And honestly, I could sit and listen to someone that made the argument that taxpayer money shouldn’t go towards birth control. It’s an argument I disagree with (for several reasons), but I at least logically understand it. But no, it has to go directly to hate speak and vitriol from people like Rush Limbaugh and his crowd of mindless followers. And these are the people that claim to be the moral majority! Please. I’ll never stand behind such two-faced bigots.

, and so are many millions of other women.—a women voting for the republican party is like a US solider voting to put the Taliban back in power. You are soft as a grape. And no, you will see, record numbers of women will NOT be voting for republicans! I am making logical questions here – why is the little blue pill covered for unmarried men? Why no moral outrage to not help unmarried men have sex? why is invitro fertilization, that results in abortion of fetuses, covered? Why is married women having sex immoral? LOGIC. Follow the bread crumbs, sister, and leads to one place and one place only ..women hating.

Why do you give this media starved moron any attention?

@ MELISSA KONICEK
Be appalled all you want. The public shouldn’t have to foot the bill for your birth control. Get it? not complicated.

..”.miss the point of Ms. Flukes testimoney…”
POSTED BY: WESTXEX
She had no point, except the one at the top of her head.

It’s $3000 becuase health care costs are so out of whack in this country! Funny how you never hear that mentioned?!

WOW!! I am astounded by the vitriol of the responses against the testimony. Truth is, the cost of birth control is a very cost effective measure. It would cost the tax payers very little money, and prevents MUCH more expensive costs down stream. I feel like this “debate” has taken us back 100 years – plus the lack of any civility saddens me. Why must it be so nasty and personal? That doesn’t resolve anything and simply turns us against one another.

Why is Limbaugh mentioning the tax payers? They’re not in this equation. She’s got health insurance, and she wants her health insurance to cover hormonal birth control. Not condoms you silly dittoheads, hormonal birth control.
It would cost 3k over three years regardless of how much sex she is having.

I get it now. I should pay for her sex life. Sounds reasonable. NOT.

Such language is offensive. Politics should not play with ” women’s choice”. Society is better off if government pays for a woman’s choice . It is not a woman’s fault that she only is able to carry children. So if she wants to stop having children, less strain on resources that should be one reason for society to encourage such birth control methods. The problem comes when government dictates if the choice is left to the woman she is better able to choose for herself. None of the men can carry , so leave it up to families to make such choices.

I want my condoms paid for President Obama!

Birth control pills should be outlawed for the sole fact that they cause cancer, strokes, and other serious life-threatening conditions. Besides, insurance should only be used for life-dependent medicines and procedures; insurance is NOT for helping a person get things they need to continue a chosen lifestyle! It’s amazing how completely backwards many of your logic and reasoning skills are, humans!

Listen up: the party line is that Sandra Fluke is not a silly and selfish slut. Next party line: Dogs have flown to Jupiter. Keep up with the memos.

wow is right

How does anyone have the audacity to go before a congressional subcommittee and tell them she wants everyone else to pay for her contraception. Some people need to stand up and be accountable for their lifestyle. If she wants to have sex that is her choice no one else. She can either pay for her contraception, have her partner pay for his contraception or they can take their chances. Other choices are to practice abstinence or have less sex so the cost is not to much for her to pay for. No one other than myself or my partner paid for contraception when we chose to have sex nor would I expect them to. Be an adult and be accountable for your actions Ms. Fluke. Study more less sex!

The little blue pill is covered by medical insurance!! ONE conservative on here, explain that. justify that! NO test to see if only married men get them. JUSTIFY THAT!

Ms. Fluke is a lost soul. Rush Limbaugh had a point, but was way out of line in expressing it. We should pray for both of them.

Limbaugh is noxious and obnoxious. But he’s RIGHT. Why are taxpayers paying for this womans lifestyle choices?

A Fat ugly drug addicted ignorant republican insults an educated smart woman, she should take it as a compliment coming from this nasty many or any other GOP extremists.

Rush Limbaugh….the obese, 1%’er, the “prescription drug addict” is once again demonstrating his
absolute disregard for anyone he chooses. Hopefully, when Rush labels someone a slut a prostitute
he is looking into mirror so he gets a good view of who is calling the kettle black. Far right Republican
talk show hosts are so self righteous, so pious, so holy in their rhetoric it is amazing they are the
only ones whose sand box is without lumps. This comment about the law student from an obese “drug addict”.

Rush may have been a little rough but his message was right on target. This is a ploy by the left wing media to drum up support for so-called womens rights. We may not be able to stop sexual activity outside of marriage we don’t have to pay approve by providing birth control via health care insurance. I feel sorry for her family and hope they do not approve of her sexual activity. There is one word that will prevent this activity and that is NO NO NO NO………………………………………………….NO

“…..The millions of American women who have and will continue to speak out in support of women’s health care and access to contraception prove that we will not be silenced.” – Sandra “Freaky” Fluke

Does anyone actually believe the debate is about support for contraceptives? To all you stupid, leftist gimmick hacks out there (to include ABC, NBC, MSNBC mainstream media outlets), Nobody give a damn about your contraceptive issues. Go get all the contraceptives and have all the sex you want, but leave me and my wallet out of it you thiefs!

“Money, it’s a crime. Share it fairly but don’t take a slice of my pie…” -Pink Floyd

In last night’s coverage of this story, Brian Williams did not bring up the “slut” remark….did he think that would be labeled as “piling on”? The years Limbaugh, Rove and friends have spent branding the free press as the “liberal media” have made cowards out of reporters. Take a stand and report this as the disgusting affront it is. I found the coverage to be watered down.

People who want to have sex should of course pay for their own contraceptives; people who want to eat should pay for their own food; people who want to drive should pay for their own cars etc. etc. etc. Having said that, I would pay to have Limbaugh’s mouth taped shut, (which would help him on many levels) because his comments are childish, sexist, and a true obfuscation of the issues. If he cannot stick to his facts, his principles, his arguments without resorting to name-calling, HE’S JUST A BIG FAT IDIOT. I jest. If he can’t deal with this issue without resorting to name-calling, one wonders if he has any justification for his comments–at all. Having said that–we should not be paying for this young woman’s sexual decisions. She should be paying for them. And btw, if she does become pregnant, and does give birth, I don’t think we should have to support her child, either….
Jean M. Davies Schmith etc.

“@ THEREAPER
Your childish and windy tirade of a book is less than boring. I just hope Rush doesn’t read it and his feelings be hurt. LOL!!!!!”
POSTED BY: LAME REAPER
Yeah, I’m sure Rush cares deeply what these losers think.

“She is not a slut. She’s just plays one in front of congress.”
POSTED BY: LEXINGTONLADY
Like acting, you mean? I didn’t consider that. It’s still part of the big hypocracy.

“She is not a slut. She’s just plays one in front of congress.”
POSTED BY: LEXINGTONLADY
“Like acting, you mean? I didn’t consider that. It’s still part of the big hypocracy.”
POSTED BY: MARSHA MARSHA
You goofs are wrong. She was being herself — sadly.

“…with gasoline underware on.”
POSTED BY: LIBERAL LISSY
Seriously, the hypocracy of it all.

OMG!!! This is just so totally unbelievable! I can’t believe that this person believes we as taxpayers should literally pay for her ability to have sex. Put aside religious beliefs, what about common sense, logic, ethics, morals??? Here is an idea why don’t you worry a little more about your studies and a little less about your sex life. Pathetic MORON! People like her just lower the intelligence of the entire nation.

Rush can be an idiot at times, but this time he’s pretty much tellin it like it is.
There is such a thing as using “Common Sense” Ms Fluke. Need to use your head, this is a touchy subject, you dont go making statements without thinking of the consequences of those statements. You have to think of how the “Other side” is going to react to what you say. You should have saw this coming the second it entered your head ! Its called “Thinking ahead”, not reacting the second it pops into your head.

Rush is a scoffer, a hater, a pompous arrogant windbag who attained national audience dissing then president GW Bush. He can maintain his (lack of) style only by wandering increasingly fanatical.

What ever happened to waiting till your married? If you want to conduct yourself in a manner that would require you to need a condom then its your business but if it’s your business then you can pay for it. I guess next you will want us to buy your cigerettes for when your done with the condom. SAD!

It would seem to me, that ms. fluke can choose whether or not she has sex but I won’t be able to choose whether or not I pay for her contraceptives.

Right on Rush!!! What else would you call someone who wants to be paid for having sex.

It is sad how many people are reducing this complex issue down to a simple “How dare this woman make us pay for her to have sex!” Says a lot about your character. Or lack of one.

Either way, I am still disgusted with the GOP, and even more disgusted with myself for some psycho-sexual reasons that I won’t reveal again, since I was teased last time told.

Just keep on telling the truth, Rush, and disregard the laughably defensive and hysterical haters. And that’s exactly what he’ll do.

We have become a society of hate and fear mongering. The majority of the posts on this issue are mean and spiteful. Unfortunately the people who are making these statements have either 1) not read the article and researched the aforementioned issue or 2) are so full of hatred and rage that they would base their entire opinion on the words of person who has make his mark in the world by being controversial and mean. Sandra Fluke is in no way asking tax payers to pay for her contraception, she is asking that the health insurance that is provided by her attending Georgetown and paying tuition covers basic needs such as the pill. Outside of birth control the pill also has other medical benefits for women. And though the cost of $3000 over a three year period may be inflated, someone earlier had posted “She can just go to Target and get it for $9 a month” Not sure as to what they are referring to but unless you got insurance covering the rest of it and $9 is your co pay you are way off base. My comments will not change the way people think or act out I am just making an observation. And if you want to label me a left wing nut job or bleeding heart liberal then so be it. But I will give you some background on who I am. I am a 60% disabled vet who has served 23 years in the military with 5 combat tours. I am a father and a husband and have no affiliation with any political party. I am well read and well educated and do not allow anyone else to make up my mind for me. Just sayin…..

She’s a third year law student asking for free stuff at the point of a gun so she can get laid

What did she expect?

Toughen up, buttercup

If you can’t defend yourself with words, you can’t defend clients

If she acts like a slut, she’s a slut.

Well stated Sean! Thanks for you service.

I can’t believe that this person believes we as taxpayers should literally pay for her ability to have sex. Put aside religious beliefs, what about common sense, logic, ethics, morals? A lot of people in this day and age expect to have everything paid for by the Government!

“How dare this woman make us pay for her to have sex!” Says a lot about your character. Or lack of one.————- WHY do you NOT mind paying for unmarried men to have sex??? why were you never outraged that medical insurance pays for the little blue pill regardless if the man is married or not? Why do you pay for, and not mind, men to be sluts, yet you call a women who you dont even know if she is using contraception for sex, or endometriosis, every name in the book and hate on her. Says alot about your character. or lack of.

The only right these young students have is to say “YES” or “NO” if she says yes to him, then she and the boy are taking responsibility for their actions. In case these kids don’t know how babies are made they should have a class on this in high school and every university. Also have a class on the cost of raising a child. My kids and my grand kids are coming up learning to respect their bodies and have morals. Folks this is the only body you will get in this life. If you abuse it there is hell to pay as you get older. Take a look around and see the effects of different life styles and the results of the deeds they have done in their life time. The prisons are full of folks that disobeyed the laws and did it their way. The hospitals are full of folks that have abused their bodies or done things that put their physical bodies in danger. The street corners are full of girls and pimps that did what this student wants our permission to do and pay for her right to do it. There are thousand of other examples.
P.S. Universities are for higher learning and to prepare you youg’uns for the future not to be the next victim or the next producer of some new virus you are important to your parents, to all your friends and mostly to yourself. We have enough dead babies and enough single moms living in misery. We don’t need another prostitute walking our streets and getting beat up or killed.

Except she never said that Frank. You guys are so easily played it’s absurd.

“Limbaugh is an iditot.”
POSTED BY: JOY
Your post says it all. “iditot”, lol. Ah, the “hypocracy” of it all.

She’s a third year law student asking — allow me—asking the women be TREATED EQUAL!!!!!!!! Do we cover men’s problems in their nuts? yes. Do we cover men’s ability to have sex regardlessif they are married or not. We do. So…then do the same for women. Period.

I suppose the senior voters in this country would be appalled to find out ObamaCare is promoting taxpayers pay for college students’ sexual habits. How many are going to vote Democratic in this next election when seniors’ Social Security and Medicare are being cut to provide birth control for college kids?

The fat bald adulterer drug addict who forced his maid buy him drugs for his habit speaks. What a phony.

I have a cat! I have a right to have a cat!! I demand that the taxpayers pay for my cat’s food and medical bills!! It is my fundamental rightr to have a cat! Freedom of expression!! I express my love for my cat!! I have a right to love my pet!! Whether I am married or not, it is my right to not get pregnant!! The taxpayer must pay for my desire to not get pregnant!! Now, I have some land in Idaho I want to see you……..

Whenever someone Rush Limbaugh criticizes anyone, I figure they must be doing something right.

Fine, if tax payers don’t want to play for birth control, at least pass laws that allow for paid maternity leave. When a woman leaves her job to go on maternity leave or to take care of her infant, it does affect her ability to retire with the same benefits as her male counterparts. If she doesn’t leave her job to do this, she is called a “bad mother.” If she uses birth control and tries to plan her life responsibly, she is called a “slut.” Damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t, as a woman.

If the shoe were on the other foot, and Mr. Limbaugh and his so called conservative cabal were capable of getting pregnant and yet retained their tradition paternalistic power, all forms of birth control would be subsidized for them and lauded by religious institutions.

I hope Mr. Limbaugh continues to make himself as ridiculous and as misogynistic as the authority figures who conducted witch hunts. No doubt if our society still burned women at the stake, he’d be bringing his marshmallows.

“Just keep on telling the truth, Rush, and disregard the laughably defensive and hysterical haters. And that’s exactly what he’ll do.”
POSTED BY: BEFORE ALL
When the dust settles and these gooftards tire themselves out with broken-record posting, this is the bottom line. He’ll laugh, and keep on telling the truth.

Rush is against gays also, and as a real teabagging gay man, I really don’t like him. He gives us fat people a bad name.

Jeff, yeah he is sure playing them. His advertisers are cancelling and the Dems are raising big bucks on this story of old guy insulting young woman student by calling her a slut. Yep, he is really playing them.

Hmm an AM radio guy makes some comments about a law student at Georgetown wanting everyone else to foot the bill for her lifestyle, and the hissy fit begins. LOL!!! Kudos to Limbaugh

Sean, thank you for your service.

Please stop lying, NOT UR AVERAGE JOE, you are a partisan lib to the max who posts from the left constantly. Stop bs-ing so badly.

If it is to be a CHOICE to have sex, then it is a CHOICE to use protection and the kind of your CHOICE, whether male or female ! therefore it is a CHOICE you freely make and not tax payers, insurances, churches or anyone elses respondsiblity. stop trying to get publicity, radio host or law student. get a grip.bottom line is…take respondsibility for your own CHOICES!!!!!

That Fluke gal and the Dem’s media must think that American people are idiots. So Ms. Fluke can afford to pay $40,000 – $60,000 per year to attend Georgetown college, but she can’t afford condoms – and – it’s up to the taxpayers to foot the bill to satisfy her sexual appetite? What about her boyfriend(s) is he so cheap that he cam’t bring his own condoms?

This has got to be the dumbest effort yet that the Dems are trying to con the voters with.

I shouldn ‘t have been made to paid for Limbaugh’s drug rehab.

“As I walk around my campus I see the faces of those effected by the lack of healthcare” This young woman made herself and every Gorgetown woman look like idiots. One can not compare the true hardships of families going through foreclosures, cancer, lost of jobs to lack of employer or government paid contraceptives!

She may not be a ‘slut’ but she sounded like one. My goodness how are these young women being raised?!?!?!

“I ask yet again — Am I a slut??? the Hypocracy is HUGE!!!!!!”
Have no idea whether you’re a slut, but you are clearly and stubbornly misguided and histrionic. Stop being a ditzy drama-queen, and maybe someone will one day take you seriously.

Enough is Enough Rush is a coward. I challenge him to a dual.

She is not a slut. She just plays one in front of Congress.

Maxine, no one but Limbaugh is talking about condoms! We are all talking about prescription birth control pills which many women take for family planning as well as for medical issues.
And LImbaugh lied about taxpayers footing the bill. This is about insurance covering the prescription, as without the insurance discount the pills run around $1000 a year.
If men get their little blue pills for sex covered by insurance, why shouldn’t women get coverage on birth control pills?
Read the article again and you will see how much LImbaugh lied about what the young woman testified to.

“She is not a slut. She just plays one in front of Congress.”
POSTED BY: LEXINGTONLADY
She plays her part well.

I in no way agree with what Limbaugh has said. However, WOW $3000.00, it kind of makes you wonder what is going on with her, that is A LOT of sex. This is one of those examples that verifies that journalisim has died in this country, this number should be fact checked, if it was she would be outed as a lier. Finally, why should I pay for someone to have recreational sex?

No one with any brains, any compassion, or any taste listens to that fat blowhard.

I totally agree with Rush. Fluke can have all of the free birth control she wants. All she has to do is keep her legs closed!

Perplexed, listen to the young woman’s testimony on video. She did not talk about her sex life at all, she simply told the story of how her friend couldn’t afford the prescription birth control pills that she needs for a medical condition, as her insurance didn’t give her a discount as a covered medication. They run around $1000 a year depending on the type that you are prescribed.
LImbaugh lied about this young woman and what she said, big time.

rush you need to lay off the crack pipe

So many hateful judgemental comments and how many of you are Christians ?

Actually as a woman I’m embarrassed that this chicky that goes to a 20k+ a year law school is begging congress for a handout. That horse and pony show they put on is more predictable than a televangelist making people walk at the end of the show.No doubt my self proclaimed representatives at NOW are screaming feigned outrage at that radio hack instead of the ironically name Ms. Fluke.

She can figure out how to get $30,000 a year for law school per year but can’t figure out how to get $600 a year for sex ?????

She is obviously a patsy for the Dems trying to creat an election year issue.

This whole thing is a FLUKE

Limbaugh is trying to start a big ol ugly mud slinging fight ..One he cant possibly win…So tuck your tail between your old man haunches and go away

What seems to be missing from the discussion is a balanced look at Georgetown’s policy. That policy is here called into question. Taxpayers DO NOT support Georgetown’s insurance cost – that is the cost that would be expended if they covered contraception for students, as they do for faculty and staff.

And BTW, the so-called “free” birth-control options are the ones which cost taxpayers, and are a bargain compared to the costs of unwanted pregnancies.

Librarian53 | March 2, 2012, 2:03 pm —- NO!!!!! —– You are wrong!! — This is NOT about coverage for birth control pills… if there is a “medical reason” for taking them beides birth control…. most insurance companies will cover them with a Dr’s note… this is not new!! — What IS NEW.. is WHO PAYS FOR IT!!! —- This law says the insurance companies must offer it free… which means YOU AND I pay for it with increased insurance premiums!! — So I am forced BY LAW… to pay for somebody else’s “romps in the hay”!!! —- THAT is the issue, and you know it!!!

Liberals have been calling conservatives names forever and no one get’s upset.
If Fluke can not afford condoms she should stop having sex. Poor women have clinics for health and birth control needs. We are subsidizing her education we should not be paying for her out of wedlock fun time.

I find it sad that everyone is getting so caught up in this debate over birth control & women’s rights (which will not change). It just means that this latest distraction is working. As far as Limbaugh is concerned…he’s a drug-addled, loudmouth idiot, spewing his hatred from his compound here in Palm Beach. But, like all of us he has the right to say what he wants and we all have the right to listen to it or not. I choose not to. After his rant on the air yesterday he also made the local news a second time after a “suspicious” package was delivered to his home. After running it thru his “personal” scanner it was deemed to be nothing dangerous. That he has his own security screening device kinda says it all…he’s an inflammatory personality & knows it. That is what has made him wealthy but he wouldn’t be on the air if people weren’t listening.

Rush you are not allowed to have your own ideas about anything or anyone. Only obama can do that! You should know that by now. People get a life.

This woman’s a fool for wanting taxpayers to pay for $3000 worth of birth control. Seems abit much. And Rush is a totally classless waste of flesh for using the analogies he did. He should be thrown off radio for that kind of thing. He surely is the expert on pills though.

What is not noted here is that the same hospitals and insurance companies that will not cover birth control for women DO cover prescriptions meds for men with impotency problems- whether due to age, or infirmity. Therefore, women should only have sex if they are to procreate whereas men are encouraged to have sex beyond their body’s capability for recreation. So who are these men to have sex with – according to these hospitals and insurance companies and Rush L., it would be girls too young or too old to conceive or … other men…..

There is no logical argument to support Ms Fluke’s position. The democrats must rely on pure emotion-based, illogical arguments in order to make their convoluted point. And that’s before we even get into the fact that the federal government is bankrupt even though government agencies are giving out free birth control for the asking.

The loyal opposition, I guess that you are against your insurance covering those little blue pills for men, too?
I bet that you won’t respond!

Wow, this country is clearly not educated on what the birth control pill does for a woman’s health. My ex-wife had to take the pill in order to keep from bleeding to death every month. The young woman who testified to congress was talking about a similar situation. I can’t believe the number of people on this site saying horrible things about women – absolutely disgusting, you should all be ashamed. Is this how you were raised and taught to treat people? And on the topic of coverage, the argument is not about making government pay for anything, it’s about making employers and insurance companies play by the rules. You can’t push your religious beliefs on your employees, the mandate actually supports religious freedom. Eleven states already have similar laws – as several people have already pointed out, this whole mess is simply about opposing anything the Obama Administration does. Pathetic.

I can’t believe in 2012 we are having a contentious conversation about birth control. I also can’t believe in 2012 there are so many people who equate a woman on birth control as a slut.Very telling.

When does this girl have time to go to class? $3000 a year for contraception means she is in bed most of the time she’s supposed to be in school. Silly me, I always thought Georgetown was a university. Now we find it’s a brothel.

I’ve always thought Rush was an idiot… but, wow, this is above and beyond his usual lunacy. There is a real issue to be discussed here, but making comments that make Ms. Fluke look like a sex queen isn’t contributing to the discussion. It’s just reinforcing what we already know… that there is a disconnect between Rush’s brain and his mouth. Think before you speak, man! Unbelievable.

Others have been fired for less. Why not this “man” who uses the language of a confirmed gutter snipe. Sadly the silence of his sponsors and peers will be tantamount to a thunderous aplause

Cheryl, you will be happy to know there is an active boycott of advertisers on Limbaugh’s show. Already one advertiser has withdrawn. Women and men who respect women should not put up with the insane attack Limbaugh launched on Sandra Fluke, a college student.

If its OK for people to “opt out” of paying for health insurance that covers birth control, can I “opt out” of subsidizing health care for large families that don’t practice birth control?

For those saying “contraceptives can be used to treat aliments that effect women”–This is true. However, they’re NOT cures for those aliments. And last time I checked, the primary purpose of contraceptives is to prevent pregnancy. And normally, women get pregnant from having sex, do they not? So doesn’t that mean that the vast majority of women use contraceptives to avoid getting pregnant as opposed to treating menstrual cycles and ovarian cysts?

For those saying “contraceptives are too expensive”–That only depends upon what you are using, as there are a wide variety of birth control options out there that are easily affordable and accessible (the cheapest being the “oh so hard to practice” abstinence). The reason why folks bring up condoms as a form of contraceptive is not because it’s the same as the birth control pill, but because they are ridiculously cheap and widely available. After all, if 98% of all American women use birth control, doesn’t that automatically mean birth control is widely available and affordable WITHOUT relying on the federal government to subsidize it?

For those saying “taxpayers are not going to be paying for contraceptives, the insurance companies will”– How do you folks think the insurance companies are going to get the money to cover the costs of providing free coverage for contraceptives? The most likely answer? Raising the premiums on everybody’s insurance rates.

For those saying “this is not a religious freedom issue, this is a woman’s rights issue”–Isn’t the foundation of all woman’s rights the ability to take care of themselves and their own lives INDEPENDENTLY and WITHOUT the government interference? What Sandra Fluke is essentially saying “I and my fellow women are unable to take care of ourselves when it comes to our sex lives and health concerns. Please help us, federal government.” Wouldn’t that actually be undermining the independence of women? Also, last time I checked, the 1st Amendment still reads, in part, “Congress shall make NO LAW respecting an establishment of religion, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF.”

One more time, for those who can’t be bothered to read the article, the facts:
This is not about making taxpayers pay for birth control, Limbaugh lied.
This is not about condoms, LImbaugh lied.
This is not paying people to have sex, Limbaugh lied.

This is about having insurance include birth control pills as a covered prescription, so their cost isn’t a $1000 a year!
Men have insurance give them a discount on their little blue pills, so fair is fair! And that isn’t about health, just about sex!

Can someone point to me the place in the bill it says taxpayers will be paying for employer provided healthcare relative to the contraception provision? I thought my employer covered our healthcare; including an employee contribution.

If they do allow employers to break out birth control for their religious beliefs, then I’m going to join the anti-smoking and anti-obesity religion. Those two lifestyles cost our healthcare system far more than birth control.

One of the more brilliant liberal posters had the timerity to bring up the idea that she has to use pills because she (or her partner) can’t use condoms due to a latex allergy. DUH!!!! Then use non latex ones. There are many brands of them out there too.

And the idea that someone can afford $60,000 a year for law school tuition but can’t pay $1000 ( a grossly distort figure ) for contraception boggles the mind.

And if she is so intelligent that she can get into a prestigious law school after graduating from a university, Possibly even with a degree that has some value to it (although that is doubtful considering where her mind is) , I bet she can get a position that would pay her much more than $3000 over the summer. A total, absolute loser.

Librarian53 | March 2, 2012, 2:25 pm —– 1st case = medical need….. 2nd case = simply having sex…. and in BOTH cases with this law… the question is… WHO PAYS FOR IT!!! —- My insurance premiums will go up for BOTH prescriptions IF the government is forcing insurance companies to pay for it….. so I am being forced to pay for somebody else’s “romp in the hay”!!!! — Thsi is preposterous, and you are twisting the root problem!!!!

Why are we bothering with the sex problems of a woman who claims her sexually activity during the course of her college life will cost 3000 dollars, at 50 cents a comdom, that is 6000 sexual events during her college career—–that is 5.47 times a day, including the days off from school—-a ridiculous conversation anyway—-Liberals trying to distort the facts, this country is in trouble and they chose to ignore it and bring up this dribble

Did Rush mention he is a drug addict? Addicted to prescription drugs? She didn’t say anything that he has turned this into….he got what he wanted controversy and the center of attention.

Thank God for Rush Limbaugh! Tell it like it is, Rush!!!! A woman (or a man for that matter) wants to use contraception? Fine, pay for it. The problem that is strangling this country is that everyone in America wants to look to everyone else to pay their freight. Contraception is not a health issue. It is a wise thing to employ to protect a person from pregnancy and disease during a VOLUNTARY activity. Rollerblading is a voluntary activity also. Should all Americans have their tax dollars spent to provide free wrist guards???

MJ McNulty, your right to exercise your religious freedom ends when it interfers with anothers rights, in this case the right to medicine. If insurance companies offer coverage for birth control pills for women and little blue pills for men to everyone, then religions running a business do not have the right to tell the insurance company to not cover certain medicines.
Religion isn’t a free pass to mess with others lives, just to freely chose your religion or none at all. If you believe it is a free pass then you must be okay with Sharia law coming to the U.S.!

Rush is right (of course) it is insane for a college student to demand that someone else pay for her contraceptives. And if her contraceptives cost $1000/year, she’s paying too much! And frankly, if she can afford Georgetown’s tuition, she can afford to pay for her own contraceptives. She is an embarrassment to all women.

And calling her a prostitute fits – she wants someone to pay for her to have sex.

Confused said: “Can someone point to me the place in the bill it says taxpayers will be paying for employer provided healthcare relative to the contraception provision? I thought my employer covered our healthcare; including an employee contribution.”

The provision states that insurance companies are required by law to pay for contraceptive services and provide them free of charge. Which means, in order to provide this service for free, the insurance companies have to earn the money in order to pay for the contraceptives themselves. Guess how insurance companies normally cover the costs for a reduced or free service? They raise your insurance rates. Therefore you, as a taxpayer, are going to have to pay MORE for your health coverage in order to provide free access to contraceptives and birth control.

Since when do tax payers pay for my insurance? Last time I checked, there is no line item on my check stub that says “other tax payers portion”. People should know the facts before the comment on the issue. Birth Control is hormone therapy which is used for more than preventing births.

“Now, if the woman gets at least a free meal in the deal from the date first, say $10.00 for the meal, she is in the black by $8.75. Even if the guy only buys her one beer at $3.50, she is still in the black by $2.25. So why does she need “free” birth control? Hell, she’s making money for her “entertainment”. Now I can start to see where the crass Limbaugh comment came from.” These comments say so much about you KENM. And none of it is good.

Right one Lexiforyourcomments on 3-01-12, 12:53pm! Unortuantely it only takes A big mouth instead of a big mind to have a radio talk show. Controvery creates advertising bucks, so Rush has mastered that. He has also mastered the ability to see the speck in others’ eyes while looking past the logs in hiw own.

Some of the comments here from the right are just … pathetic. If there is a word for “ignorant-squared”, then it would apply here.

Please learn to listen to someone other than Rush, so that you might have even a clue of what you’re talking about. (No question that 95% of these comments are from men.)

OBVIOUSLY you didn’t listen to the witness’ testimony. OBVIOUSLY you know only of Rush’s (mis)-characterization of her statements. Geez, do any of you even KNOW a doctor? Take even a high school biology course?

Do any of you know a woman? One that you like? Geez, the sheer stupidity of some of these comments is overwhelming. Truly, truly pathetic.

Leave it to a Idiot Like Rush, how can any one stand to listen to this creature he is the evil person who is not happy with life in himself.

At what point in her testimony did Ms Fluke discuss her personal sexuality? When did she talk about how she needs someone to support her sexual habit? There is no statement indicating that she has ever had sex. Women take BC pills for more than just avoiding pregnancy; they provide support for many health issues that have little to do with pregnancy. She was right on when she pointed out that the type of diatribe RL vomited is aimed at silencing women.

RL is a fat, drug-addled, pompous a$$ who has made a fortune working against America in favor of his own bottom line.

What’s wrong, ABC? No information on what a year’s worth of birth control actually costs? No costs for a year’s worth of condoms? No annual cost for any other type of contraceptive? Or, can it be that Fluke’s idea of contraception is actually abortion? Two or three a year, I’m sure, is not out of the realm of possibility for someone so inane and puerile as Ms. Fluke – or any liberal for that matter!

$41,500 to attend Harvard Law School. does not include other expences. If this gal can afford $41,500 to go to school she can pay for her own pills, if not her wealthy family should help her out. I would like $3,000 worth of Viarga per year for free. I don;t think men should be covered for same. Not a health issue. If she went to a cheaper school she wouldn;t have to worry about the cost. P.
S. I drive a 15 year old truck, and I would like the government make someone pay for it because I’m making payments on my $29,500 5th wheel and I can’t afford a new truck. Gotta love this country. Catholics who don;t agree with church on the issue of premarital sex, birth control etc. The door is not locked and you can find another abode. Church does not have to change one darn thing, just because the public at large wants to change it. So Cath women use birth contro methods, as well as Cath men, big deal they are not CATHOLICS but catholics and in name only. P.S. Do women recall when boys and men wanted to buy a pkg of condums? You had to ask for them. Duh! How do you think boys and men feel when a young girl is working behind the counter? Even if it was a grandmother same thing. Yes, to hell with the church until you want to get married, and when you get the “you have 3 mo. left to live”, and when you have a funeral you want the church to be there for you.

The overall issue should not be if this young lady is a “slut” or not, but why people seem to think it is more responsible to use birthcontrol than to stop having sex. Sex is a natural thing and a very stronge urge dont get me wrong but anger is also a strong urge and I’m not out killing people who make me mad. People need to stop trying to take the easy way out and take responsability for there own urges. Sex needs to between a husband and wife while being open to the idea of children.

I am SO disgusted with all the IGNORANCE and hate so many people on here have displayed! No woman deserves to be called a slut! I saw the meeting where Fluke spoke. She NEVER once said that she was haviing “so much sex” that she couldn’t afford the birth control. That’s just a misstatement! Furthermore, I’d like to explain a few things to all you Rush fans (and to Rush Limbaugh himself).

1. NOT ALL WOMEN TAKING BIRTH CONTROL PILLS ARE HAVING SEX. Birth control is useful for a lot of things aside from not making babies. Women use these pills to regulate their period, stop the creation of cysts (these are little water balls that tend to form in the uterus/breasts/ovaries. They can become cancerous, but even if they don’t, they’re VERY painful to live with when they pop), the pills help with endometriosis, lowering breast, uterus, and ovarian cancer risks. These are just some examples. There are other reasons why women take it, and it’s very much a life-saving tool that is available.
2. Even if women are taking it for birth control, it’s much cheaper to pay a low-income woman birth control pills (fyi, you take ONLY 1 A DAY, regardless of sexual activity) than to pay an abortion or labor and cost of living of her child. By the way, the cost of raising a child now is about $250,000 over 18 years. That’s way more than $1000 a year for a pack of pills each month. (1000/12=$83.33<—the cost of the pack per month)
3. LESS WOMEN WILL BE AT RISK OF GETTING CANCER! What this means for the taxpayer? $AVING$! It's less money that we'll have to pay for chemotherapy, surgeries, home-bound care, etc. especially if the woman in question is on Medicare or Medicaid (or both).

To those of you who are skeptical about what I'm talking about, please, please, PLEASE educate yourselves on the topic. Ask a professional, your OB-GYN, your doctor, go online, do research. YOUR LOCAL CHURCH (unfortunately) IS LYING TO YOU! Talk to the women around you who take the pill. You'll find that many aren't taking it for the sex they're (not even) having. I speak from experience. A close friend of mine and I both suffer from cysts, it's the most horrible pain that exists on planet Earth. If it weren't for the pill, I would have to take off 7 days EVERY MONTH of the YEAR because of the pain. That's 84 days in which I don't make money that I need to pay my bills and such. Granted, we don't need taxpayer funds to pay for our medication, because my medication's parent company has a program that assists women with the cost. My insurance also offers coverage for the medication, so it's not a problem. But I feel bad that there aren't other women out there whose insurance can cover their pills, especially if they suffer from something as bad as endometriosis and cyst formation. But regardless, people, we've got to be frank about some things. We are right now paying for a lot of people and their babies they can't even afford to take care of. These people are sucking the system for everything it has. It's getting to a point where it's just not sustainable. We're STILL going to have to pay for either this or the pill. I choose the pill, no matter what. It's definitely the cheapest option in all cases, medically necessary or not. It will offer a breather to the taxpayer in all senses!

She was trying to testify about her friend who needed contraception for her cysts. Rush Limbaugh should be ashamed of himself.

This woman obviously thinks everyone else should pay for her lack of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, let alone the evident lack of morality. If she is studying to be a lawyer she should know she is setting up a huge discrimination suit. She can’t get pregnant without male sperm. Therefore IT IS NOT A WOMAN ONLY ISSUE!

“The fact that this slut”… cite your reference Jennifer.

..”her lack of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, let alone the evident lack of morality.” cite your reference James.

Back up your statements. It is easy to reduce someone down to a deragatory label (little kids are capable of doing that) and to question their morals but cite your reference for arriving at these conclusions.

Have to give it to Rush to get so many talking about this issue, love him or hate him he does get people thinking … He is the master of Illustrating Absurdity By Being Absurd! Thank God for Rush, he is a beacon of Responsibility and Reason in this strange new world we live in.

During the 1970′s and 1980′s the female gender demanded equal rights and independence from the male dominated culture. Frankly, I am stunned by Fluke’s contemporary mindset as compared to the fierce independent mindset of the 1970′s and 1980′s. I just don’t believe today’s female gender wants to be dependent upon the government for personal choices. What’s changed this independent mindset? Very disturbing trend.

This is getting tiring.

POSTED BY: TY—Feel free to go play with yourself or knit a sweater…..

Thanks all the same Donna, but I’ll continue to act like an adult.

TY said Waaaahh!!!!!….waaaaaahhhh!!!

Conservative Logic: We don’t want you taking birth control so you have to have this baby, that you cant afford. Now that you have had this baby that you couldn’t afford we don’t want to give you any financial help. oh your a single mom that cant work because you have to take care of your kids and you cant afford a babysitter because you don’t have a job because you had to watch your kids well seems like your in a little bind. Sorry not our problem.

Where is the loud calling for Bill Maher, (and half of the democrat congress) to apologize to Sara Palin, where was the outrage by the left when she was being accused of being everything except a decent American patriot??

@Nathalie–But the most common reason for why contraceptives are used and prescribed is for pregnancy prevention, correct?

According to the study published by Guttmacher Institute, it states that 58% of all women rely on contraceptives, IN PART, for other purposes other than pregnancy prevention, meaning the remaining 42% use it exclusively for pregnancy prevention. Now you might conclude that this means that less women use contraceptives exclusively for pregnancy prevention–however, that 58% includes women who are using contraceptives for pregnancy prevention IN ADDITION to using them for aliments such as menstrual pain, menstrual regulation, acne, endometriosis, etc. A closer look at the study shows that the actual number for those using contraceptives EXCLUSIVELY for non-contraceptive purposes is 14%. That means the remaining women surveyed who are using them for contraceptive purposes–which again includes the 58% who use for BOTH contraceptive and non-contraceptive reasons–is 86%

Yep, Rush is great. Give him another talk show and more time on TV. He is doing a fantastic job of convincing any undecided women they should vote Democrat. Thank you Rush! November headline: “Obama wins by a landslide” (and invites Rush to the inauguration to thank him).

Rush is a freak. Why is he still employed?

Men won’t take responsibility when they cause a pregnancy, so women want contraceptives, and they are called sluts. Takes two to make another unwanted baby.

“The more Rush Limbaugh talks, the better it is for Democrats. ”
POSTED BY: EMILY C.
Right. LOL. Definitely the more Obama jabbers on and blows hot air, the better it is for Republicans.

No babies for me, since I’m gay, but that’s besides the point.

Raven, you obviously didn’t listen to Ms. Flukes testimony. Limbaugh lied about it.

It is so sad that Limbaugh’s followers don’t realize when he is lying because they don’t read or watch real news! He lied about everything he claimed Ms. Fluke said!

How far we have fallen in our morals in this country. This is just another example of why Government run healthcare will be too expensive!! Look it’s already started with his single issue!!
Would you pay for someone elses sexual desires, if it were coming directly out of your pocket, for some person who comes up to you off the street and says”I wanna have sex with by girlfriend or boyfriend.” “Will you please give me $5 bucks or $10 bucks so I can buy a condom or a pill to keep us so-called safe?” I doubt it very much. But if the “Government does it, it’s OK!! It’s our money folks!! Why are we being asked to pay, so someone else can play hanky panky with our money!! This is not healthcare it’s having sex, for the enjoyment of having it at your expense!! Wake Up!! America!! We’re going down the tubes!!

” I’ve spent time in the Middle East and the Right in this country has more in common with the Islamic fundamentalist zealots than they know.”
POSTED BY: JEFF
What goofball nonsense. And anyway, liberals love the ” Islamic fundamentalist zealots”, and Obama believes we need to constantly apologize to them in hopes that they will perhaps, maybe (not) like us better.

Shame on Rush and all of these other hate filled blowhards..and many that are posting agreeing comments arent any better..think for YOURSELF for once and quit looking at each party as if it is a football game..

listen to yourself..if you can sit and agree with Rush on this, you are sick and need help. This is true for o”reilly, beck etc. Any of them. Rush is aiding to the dumbing down of this country and a lot of commenters here are sick.

Rush volunteered to supply aspirin to the women at Georgetown. I think he should have offered to furnish oxycontin.

“As others have pointed out, the issue is not asking TAXPAYERS to cover birth control, it’s asking that it be covered by INSURANCE for which one already pays premiums.”

If I knew how, I’d make a program do nothing but post this continually 10 times a second. Techies, an amateur anthropologist needs you!

I don’t see why this is such a big issue anyway. Most successful insurance companies will continue to cover birth control on their formularies because any intelligent person knows that covering birth control is cheaper than covering maternity/labor & delivery care. It’s pretty simple math people. If one can’t afford birth control, they won’t use it, which means higher likelihood of pregnancy (because humans like to have sex and will continue to do it even without birth control) which means higher costs from hospital stays as a results of the increased pregnancies.
This is why most health insurance companies will continue to cover birth control. Some hoity-toity religious based ones won’t which is why the people they cover will continue to have like 14 kids a piece, further putting a strain on the economy and the planet.

“Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed, these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up.” 2 Peter 2:2,3

Who said she wanted condoms ? The young woman was testifying about women’s contraception that was ALSO needed for a medical condition that only women have. Sheeeesh. Rush is an idiot. Or is he? Is he misleading you in hateful stupidity or intentionally leading you in stupid rants because he likes division and for people to be divided by race and gender.
Rush counts on you not EVER thinking or investigating any of his spew. Good job on helping him out! And being downtrodden yourselves, you love to have someone to hate…makes you feel big, for a while. And Rush knows you will echo his lies as truth until everyone like you, believes that girls want you to pay for their condoms.

If you thought for even a tiny moment…” $3K – yes that would be a lot of condoms but, ummmm wait a sec, women don’t use condoms, do they ?”

“Many will follow Rush’s shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In his greed, Rush will exploit you with stories he has made up.”

One thing I think very interesting–Rush expects his health insurer to pay for his rehab for abusing prescription drugs–but that’s an “illness” and not a “lifestyle” thing. Many girls (including myself) have been prescribed birth control pills to treat horrible menstrual pain (in my case, it was a bad as gallstones). Apparently it is a “lifestyle” choice to be out of pain. It is a “lifestyle” choice to shrink ovarian cysts. It is a “lifestyle” choice for a married woman to prevent possibly fatal pre-eclampsia.

But drug addiction is an “illness”, and not a “lifestyle choice”. Interesting, that.

DOCTOR REALIST, lol, thanks for your offer of a guilt trip, but most of us plan to vacation elsewhere. What is shameful is that this ditz wishes and even demands that others foot the bill for her own hedonistic lifestyle.

“He lied about everything he claimed Ms. Fluke said!”
POSTED BY: LIBRARIAN53
No, Ms. Bot, it is only you, as usual, who is lying. Rush told the truth.

“If you thought for even a tiny moment…” $3K – yes that would be a lot of condoms but, ummmm wait a sec, women don’t use condoms, do they ?”
POSTED BY: WONDERING WOMAN
If you ever thought for even a tiny moment, $3K is a vast exaggeration of the expense even for birth control pills, considering that one can get them for less than a third of that cost for 3 years, and in many cases, even entirely for free. Wise up, and get honest.

As is often the case, my original reply post was later deleted for no legitimate reason whatsoever, apart from the glaring liberal bias of ABC, but anyway…
This “I demand and thus am entitled” crap is more than just shameful. It’s flat-out thievery.Etc…”
POSTED BY: MICHAEL STANTON
“Is it thievery for me to demand you pay for my police?…”
POSTED BY: ZACH L
Sorry, ZACH L, but if you recognized and embraced any sense of elementary logic at all, you’d see the striking difference between paying for police and paying for the unwanted consequences of someone’s personal and freely-chosen sexual activities. I realize you chose not to see that striking difference, but most of us with some common sense can readily see it.

“Limbaugh’s mother should have had an abortion.”
POSTED BY: LIZ
An your mother should have sterilized from the get go, since she was mentally disabled.

She may or may not be a slut, but she sure played one in front of Congress.

“An (sic) your mother should have [been?] sterilized from the get go, since she was mentally disabled.”
POSTED BY: HER INNER DEMONS
Eh…I give it a 2 out of 10.
Try again.

“These issues reflect hypocracy and actully are periferal to the main point of honestly confronting the promisscuitty in the gay community.”
POSTED BY: LIZ
Good point, LIZ. “hypocracy” is spelled wrong, however.

“Yes some, including you, do need to really grow up.”
POSTED BY: LEXINGTONLADY
Compelling argument.
Thank you for your time.

3 things:
1. Fluke is no fluke. She is a reproductive rights activist…and, a pawn of the left. The media has no interest in telling you this. They want you to believe Fluke is just a college student.
2. Free birth control IS NOT FREE. It is funded by the other insurance customers via higher premiums….but, IT IS NOT FREE.
3. Rush Limbaugh should have used other words to describe Fluke. No excuses here. But, what Limbaugh was saying is that Fluke claims her contraception costs are $3000 during law school….and, that can buy a lot of condoms and birth control pills. Do the math: if the pill costs $10 per month x 36 months (3 years of law school) = $360 … which she can afford. But, if condoms cost st $1.00 each, you could buy 3600 condoms. In a 3 year period, the only people who use 3600 condoms are either prostitutes or sluts. Do you get his humor?
It sounds like the media on the left have become the type pf people they claim to despise.

“It’s times like these when I am ashamed to be a gay liberal.”
POSTED BY: NOFLYZONE2
One silly Fluke can not destroy our work.

“Grow up already.”
POSTED BY: LIZ
Yes some, including you, do need to really grow up.
POSTED BY: LAURA
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LAURA: My response of: ‘Compelling argument. Thank you for your time’ was directed to you, not LEXINGTONLADY. My apologies to LL.
CASSANDRA and LET’S POST SOBER: That was not my post.
CASSANDRA: ‘Promiscuity’ and ‘peripheral’ are also misspelled.

Get a grip, LIZ, no one cares. Your posts aren’t that important.

To all lib women complaining about the cost, Wal Mart, Wal Greens Sell Generic Birth control pills at $8-12 for one month supply.(for libs who will need a calculator to figure out annual cost, It is $96 to $120) And a Gynocologist on TV said they give free samples to patients provided by pharma companies. He also said the women can live with one ovary if other one is removed due to medical issues just like kidneys.
So I will tell all ignorant Lib morons “Get the Fluke out of here”. cause you all have been Fluked.

Have a nice day

I say sue Rush for defamation of character.

The last word must be mine. Move aside. Fluke is a flake.

What’s with all these idiotic comments about her testifying on behalf of only herself . She was testifying on behalf of her dead friend who got cancer after she could no longer afford the birth control her doctor had prescribed for the prevention of ovarian cysts . She could no longer afford it, her insurance company denied it because it was not covered under Georgetown’s plan and she developed ovarian cysts and then cancer ! srsly have any of you actually listened to the testimony ?!?!??!??!??!?!?? you are all providing a 100% false narrative for your arguments .

What ever happened to planned parenthood that our tax dollars are subsidizing? If you want cheap birth control you pay for your exam you get a perscription and go to Wal*Mart and it’s $5 a month for a generic brand. 5*12 = $60 a year. Not to mention that there are LGBTU groups in almost every major university in this country that hand out condoms as if they were candy. It is not hard to get contraceptives and since when was that a gauranteed right in the US Constitution? Oh yeah, did you liberals forget about that. The federal government is restricted by the constitution and is only granted certain powers and those that are not listed are reserved for the states.

Plus to the commenter who posted about the religious institutions being below the law of the land, that is true and no one is questioning that, but we have a certain ammendment to our constitution that garauntees the freedom to practice religion, and that the government has no right to restrict our right to practice it. Since when was it a garaunteed right to women that all tax payers have to pay for their contraceptives. Most insurance companies will pay for it anyways if you give them a call or you have a valid medical reason for the use of the birth control pills. Quit misinforming the American public you people really make me sick to my stomach.

How the hell are taxpayers suddenly responsible for birth control? Are you all ignorant, or just so full of hate and vitriol that you have to spew it out whenever you can?

None of this has to be about taxpayers paying for BC, it’s about making sure women have access to it in their insurance plan. . .which, just like any other insurance plan, the person pays monthly for. The church has a big problem with it, but for the wrong reasons. This woman’s testimony was an example as to why its important that even church affiliated groups offer birth control coverage, because there are serious conditions which have absolutely nothing to do with pregnancy that require birth control to be managed. The whole reason they REFUSE is because pregnancy prevention is against their religion. The problem lies in the fact that not all people use birth control pills for this reason, therefore their argument is invalid in these cases. This does not, in any way infringe upon their religious beliefs. If they, however, decide to let a woman die because she has one of these life-threatening illnesses and they refuse to ALLOW THE INSURANCE COMPANY TO OFFER BIRTH CONTROL COVERAGE UNDER THEIR PLAN. . .how are they any better than murderers?

The only way the taxpayers would be involved is if those church affiliated groups refused this coverage. So, why not get mad at the churches instead of the women? If they are so far in the dark ages that they don’t realize that there are real complications women can face that REQUIRES them to be put on birth control just to manage it (HAVING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH SEX) then that is on them. The woman should NOT be the one taking the blame. Anyone who defends allowing a woman to die due to some outdated dark-age belief that women should be baby machines should just go back into their cave, stay there, and leave the rest of us alone.

It’s all got to turn into some idiotic conversation about “WELL GOLLYGEE WHIZ why dun’t she just buy her some con-doms,” or “Well, why should I have to pay for someone else’s perversity and heathen ways?” which is completely missing the ENTIRE POINT of the whole argument. . .and the reason you are missing it is because you’re actually EXCITED to get to be pissed off at something, so you don’t even bother TRYING to understand it before you spew your ignorance.

And- Just a special message to the especially ignorant Steve Radonich. . . The whole point of this debate, in case you missed it in the above, is about how church affiliated insurance plans DO NOT ALLOW BIRTH CONTROL TO BE COVERED AT ALL. If they would just ALLOW the option (considering many of the people who work for church affiliated hospitals and whatnot actually do NOT belong to said church it SHOULDN’T be a big deal) then the taxpayers WILL NEVER BE INVOLVED. EVER. Just allow the option, which does NOT mean FORCE all of the women to use birth control. If they are a member of that religion, they don’t have to unless they have a dire medical condition. Case CLOSED. Denying birth control to a woman who works for you that is NOT of your religion, that is infringing upon HER rights. Just like if you had a vegetarian boss, they shouldn’t be allowed to only offer you health insurance if you are also a vegetarian.

I don’t understand how the hell people have taken this issue and turned it into “suddenly, we’re all responsible for every woman’s sexual deviance. . ” Jesus Christ, grow some brains, people!

Just looking at the comments on this message board, it’s no wonder the US is so dysfunctional. We have nobody to blame except ourselves, not the politicians.
It’s OK to have your own opinion, but there is a difference between fact & fiction.
If voters don’t open themselves up to the TRUE facts, ignorant comments and votes are the result, which is where we are today.

“Fluke spoke of one friend in particular who needed contraception to prevent ovarian cysts.” This is true. There are many people who have to take birth control pills for reasons other than preventing pregnancy. It is amazing how many men posting here are the ones making nasty comments. I have to wonder how some of you treat the women in your lives.

As an older woman, I find Rush’s coments completely disqusting. What makes him think that it is OK to talk about women in general like that ? Does he think women are human beings that only want sex? There are LOTS of reasons women take birth control pills,not just for sex. He odviously has not read much or tried to understand women and their bodily needs. I wonder if he would say such terrible things if this concerned men or his problems with drugs!!!
Companies need to stop advertising on his show-Think about it Pro Flowers.

Now I know why you’re called liberals…

You liberals are willing to kill your own baby or risk your health just for the gratification of sex, sex, sex.

What is it that you liberals eat or otherwise consume that drives you to your unconscionable sex and bunny rabbit behavior? If only I could identify it, I would render it down to a powerful aphrodisiac that I could market to the animal husbandry interests and make a fortune.

I will look for the answer in this forum…Thanks

Think folks. Planned Parenthood is a multi-billion dollar mega machine. The way they got there was by turning pregnancy into an illness. Pregnancy is not an illness and never has been. Now we are seeing sex being turned into an illness so it can be funded also. It is that simple and the reason Rush is all over it as he should be. People need to know the real truth. It’s all about m-o-n-e-y.

Birth Control for any reason still isn’t $1000 a year. Come on people, Walmart has $9 prescriptions. Can’t you see this was just a lightning rod, planted by the left, she shouldn’t have been testifying anyway, testifying for what! The rich kids in Georgetown University have at least $9 a month for BC Pills, they spend that on a Starbuck’s coffee.

Maybe the government can kick all of the talk radio hosts off the air and throw them in prison, feed them bread and water, tar-and-feather them and any thing else one could imagine. Afterwards, patch into China national radio and listen to that until the government develops one of its own. May I listen to Joy, Bill M. or Wolf. All of this is so calculated, political and convenient.

This whole thing is smoke and mirrors. The $3000 figure by Fluke should get a “pants on fire” rating. I personally feel that Limbaugh and mainstream media are in this together to cause a pointless “outrage” to distract from the reality that our liberty is being raped. This is obvious when you look at how ridiculous Limbaugh’s statements are. Concerning Fluke, as an American, I could care less about her sexual issues. That is HER problem! Btw, people of low income can go to their local health department and qualify for free birth control, so technically, we already are paying for contraception. The health insurance mandate for this is absolutely redundant, unnecessary and total baloney. It is all lies. Of course, I have come to expect no less of our current government and of the lemmings in our country who keep swallowing the bull and keep voting these clowns back into power. When are people going to wake up and realize that a truly free nation expects no entitlements or mandates because they expect to accept the consequences of liberty for better or worse. Finally, the last time I checked, it is the individual’s responsibility to manage their own hygene, sexual or otherwise. If you honestly can’t afford birth control, YOU need to suck it up and practice something called abstinence. Decent and free people don’t make their personal choices everyone else’s problem. Will you people wake up from all the lies? Will the people of this country ever care about things other than sex and entertainment? Are we now in the “cultural wasteland” phase that Jefferson warned us about? It is up to you, Americans. Will it be liberty or slavery for all?

Why are most people here slamming the DEMS? Is there not a female republican that takes contraceptives? I guess not.

How come no one is talking about him saying, “So Miss Fluke, and the rest of you Feminazis, here’s the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex. We want something for it. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.” He has so much class!

I do agree that Rush and his peers have changed “news.” It seems to no longer be news but “News Entertainment.”

I am a Field Artilleryman, stationed at Fort Campbell but before this I worked for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas and if ANYONE, regardless of political affiliation and their position in government, knew how health insurance worked, they would know the company an individual works for has the right to choose what coverages they want for their group plans. This is why it is so important to read your Explanation of Benefits handbook, as your employer and Insurance Carrier will not do so. Not because they do not like you, they just don’t make the time.

I’m guessing Rush “Dutch Oven” Limbaugh’s MAIN UNSPOKEN SPONSOR is likely the Catholic Church–and I’m sure we’ll never know.

I like how, whenever you point out what unbelievable gimps certain people are, it’s often automatically interpreted as support for their opposite party. This the kind of crap that goes on in a two-party state. There’s no reason they BOTH can’t be obnoxious trolls. They’re BOTH just as bad–from a different direction. The one’s who can afford to give you a job will steal your house. The one’s who won’t steal your house, will fill your neighborhood with crime. The one’s who aren’t shutting your children’s schools are filling them with gangs. The ones who prevent a depression will haul off with the treasury. The ones who protect your reproductive choices will put a lab coat on a fry-cook and call him a doctor. The one’s who don’t will let you bear a rape baby and die for “moral” reasons. The only ones capable of fixing their country will fix it so what’s yours becomes theirs.

Acknowledging this one simple fact is the only thing that could POSSIBLY save this country:

“FREEDOM” MEANS “ONE MORE WAY TO BE BENT OVER.”
THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN SAVE YOU WILL ENSLAVE YOU.”

Everything else in politics–and every debate about it, is a distraction–to keep you looking the other way while the rich keep going to the bank.

LOL! Of course she would go on the Ed Show to plead her case. Nice non partisan show there, NOT.

Rush must be doing something right for the liberals to hate him so much.

There’s a difference between women using BC for MEDICINAL use and women using BC for RECREATIONAL use. Same situation applies to the whole Marijuana situation. I say we should provide those that require BC MEDICINALLY, but for those that are using it for pure recreation only, let them pay. Fluke should pay her own pay or lessen the amount of sex she has, and her “friend” should have BC covered by insurance.

I believe the comment of slut was an opinion and I do not believe it is actionable. That being said, I really do not want to pay for any other individual’s BC and I really cannot believe she testified concerning this matter. The Untied States used to be a great place to live but now it appears that everything is assumed to be an entitlement and it is just a matter of time before taxes and healthcare costs are so high that places like China will start to look good. We have to draw the line somewhere and I believe covering BC for NON-Medical reasons is crazy. I also believe that this person that testified, in my opinion is an idiot.

It blows my mind how many of you do not understand how birth control pills work… you can have sex once a month or every day and STILL HAVE TO TAKE THE SAME AMOUNT OF PILLS. It is not the fact that she is having “so much sex” that she cant afford it. She could be having sex with a significant other and may just not want to have children yet…. AND they may only have sex one or two times a month… but she still has to take the pill EVERYDAY. There is no sex to pill ratio you morons. Also keep in mind there are numerous reasons to take the pill other than preventing pregnancy. Ovarian cysts(as stated), endometriosis, prevention of abnormal cell growth(which can lead to ovarian cancer) are just a few. So think of how you would feel if your ‘slut’ sister has to take the pills to keep from getting cancer…. makes sense now huh?

Many of the posts here are a sad commentary why this country has slid so far. I guess we are headed for a civil war, Those on the right think they are the only side with guns, but I think they will be mistaken. We are headed for self destruction, Babylon we are.

Most AMERICANS are ignorants. First, she was advocating for women to get free BIRTH CONTROL PILLS, not CONDOMS. These pills are the same amount each month, so price stays constant. Second, birth control should be at least subsidized if it’s not going to be free. However, since Americans have proven themselves to lack intelligence, it’s probably a slight chance they won’t change this, just as well as free medical services for everyone. She’s an admirable woman for speaking up!!