Today, Rush didn't back down
Limbaugh also denied he was opposed to birth control, according to a transcript of his show. “This is about expanding the reach and power of government into your womb, if you're a woman. This is about the Democrat Party wanting more and more control over you. What was early feminism all about? Emancipation, individuality, freedom, liberation, all of these things. Now here comes Danica Patrick out and she says, "I'm perfectly comfortable letting the government make my health decisions for me." Well, folks, I'm gonna tell you: Right there, that's the death and the end of feminism.”
- US News- MSNBC
Democrats have long tried to make the connection of the government paying for erectile dysfunction medications being the same as the government paying for birth control. Republicans have consistently come back saying "oh no, no, no.
Erectile Dysfunction medications (Viagra, Cialus, etc.) are for a medical condition. Birth control is for a life style choice."
This is one of the reason they won't accurately depict what Sanda Fluke said, because she said birth control pills ARE for medical conditions and they can't have fact destroying their attack.
Perhaps you think my friend’s tragic story is rare. It’s not. One woman told us doctors believe she has endometriosis, but it can’t be proven without surgery, so the insurance hasn’t been willing to cover her medication. Recently, another friend of mine told me that she also has polycystic ovarian syndrome. She’s struggling to pay for her medication and is terrified to not have access to it. Due to the barriers erected by Georgetown’s policy, she hasn’t been reimbursed for her medication since last August. I sincerely pray that we don’t have to wait until she loses an ovary or is diagnosed with cancer before her needs and the needs of all of these women are taken seriously.
This is the message that not requiring coverage of contraception sends. A woman’s reproductive healthcare isn’t a necessity, isn’t a priority. One student told us that she knew birth control wasn’t covered, and she assumed that’s how Georgetown’s insurance handled all of women’s sexual healthcare, so when she was raped, she didn’t go to the doctor even to be examined or tested for sexually transmitted infections because she thought insurance wasn’t going to cover something like that, something that was related to a woman’s reproductive health. As one student put it, “this policy communicates to female students that our school doesn’t understand our needs.” These are not feelings that male Fellow students experience. And they’re not burdens that male students must shoulder.
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But now, thanks to Rush, it's more than that. Not just because of the slut comments (which are really bad) but of what he said today, and the um, "expansion" of the controversy.
If the government paying for birth control is, as Rush puts it:
This is about expanding the reach and power of government into your womb, if you're a woman.
- transcript from his show (grab it before it gets scrubbed)
Leaving aside the observation of who else would have a womb . . .
But by using his metric, isn't the government paying for erectile dysfunction medication, the government getting all up in a man's penis? Reaching for it, possibly giving a man a hand job.
No wonder Rush doesn't demand that the government stop paying for Viagra. He must like government hand jobs.