Really?! Does Rush Limbaugh want to pay instead for babies and baby care, and day care and formula and diapers? Is he that hard up that he has to resort to calling a woman a slut for asking for birth control? Men have guilt free sex, or get stuck with child support sex for 18 years, and he is balking over $1,000 a year for some pills? Really?! http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2012/03/rush_limbaugh_calls_woman_on_b.html
Both sides are taking things too far. It is entirely possible to both respect women and to not want to have to use your own money to pay for their wants and needs. But too many noisy people are going full-on misogynist or declaring that their rights are violated if they don't get what they think they're entitled to. There's no need for those extremes.
Typical. Essentially the right wing is upset because they got out maneuvered on this subject and almost 80% of the population agrees and employer shouldn't be able to cut corners on health insurance. Reproductive health care is very much part of health care and, yes, insurance companies will gladly pay for it themselves since delivering a baby costs ~$30,000 these days if there are no complications. Limbaugh and company can have their hissy fit but all the church groups are happy and the vast majority of Americans, almost 80%, support the plan.
You don't pay for it nor do employers. Insurance companies have agreed it is a preventative measure cheaper than the alternative. That is $1000 per year is much, much less then $30,000 and up for a delivery (not to mention all the pre-natal and after birth check ups). The insurance companies want to avoid paying a big expense like that.
This plan also includes college couples who are married and don't want to have a baby yet! And yes, I know Rush is an entertainer. (As am I, and several others here)
Oh, and let's not forget that about 20% of the women who take birth control take it for other medical reasons. I guess they're just all sluts too. Either way the GOP is going off a cliff on this one, according to former RNC chairman Mike Steel, because their numbers are collapsing among women. Especially independent women but even among Republican women as well. They can culture war this all they want but it will cost them some races. They're down 14 points among independent women last I heard.
Between the non-Romney nominees and now this stoking of the culture wars, it's pretty clear the Republicans have given up on this Presidential Election. Seriously, what the fuck?!?!
And then there's this: "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." Always classy and respectful.
That would never do. He needs to sell them over priced gold coins and special mattresses designed for obese people if he wants to stay on the air.
ahhhh yes Fluke..... A fake...... Yep. A fake. She knowingly went to a school who doesn't have this type of coverage. She considers herself a reproductive rights activist. [yt=Susan Fluke]xlRC0nsjtKQ[/yt] Georgetown is a Catholic school. This is part of the attack on religious institutions. "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. The issue got the university president’s office last spring, where Georgetown declined to change its policy. " http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...tives-hearing/2012/02/16/gIQAJh57HR_blog.html She knew ahead of time that they didn't offer it but she still went to that school and don't give me any bullshit that she couldn't go to other schools just as good as Georgetown. And frankly the government doesn't need to be paying for birth control. If she's having that much sex then maybe she should charge the men so she can buy the birth control!
All well and good. Skin's sure that Mizzzzzzzzzzzzz Susan Fugazi won't mind if religious families start demanding that secular schools change their stances on it.
Ok. When a woman is on birth control, she takes one pill every day. One pill. Whether she has sex five times a day with multiple partners, three times a week with her husband, or no sex at all, she still takes one pill every day. Why then is the assumption here that sluts having lots of sex need more birth control?
Ask her, she's the one who said that women are going broke at Georgetown because they have to pay for their own birth control.
$1,000 a year? That seems high. But of course it depends on income. A person can obtain pills for about $1 a pill roughly. Health care covers Viagra but not BC.
I'm not a mathematician (though I play one on TV) but you can't raise a kid on 3,000 a year unless Sally Strothers is helping you out. Thus, the birth control is cheaper than making tax payers raise your kid. And if you're a slut, your kid may end up being a fatherless thug, who robs old people like Rush Limbaugh. I don't get where he's coming from. Maybe he needs prescription medication to help him get his head right.....or not.
Simply idiotic. Equating the need for the birth control with being a slut, just the type of PR that the Republicans need. And it underscores that the candidates can't come out against this type of thing without pissing off the Republican base. The lunatics are running the asylum.
No, equating that someone else (taxpayers or the other members of the Georgetown health ins. group plan) pay for her birth control for her, in effect, pay for her sex, to her being a prostitute, while being purposefully over the top, cuts right to the heart of the matter. No one is saying that anyone should be denied accesss to contraception, the objection is that everyone else is expected to pay for it just because she wants it. I want a new car, guess what, I don't expect the government or my car ins. co. to buy one for me paid for by either taxpayers or policy holders. If she can't afford to have sex, she could try keeping her pants on.
