I was as outraged as Rush was to read an article from CSN news (Rush's source for the Sandra Fluker story) about a Georgetown student saying she and other women couldn't afford contraceptives.
This is the title of the article:
Sex-Crazed Co-Eds Going Broke Buying Birth Control, Student Tells Pelosi Hearing Touting Freebie Mandate
The thing is - and I didn't know this, as I've always been healthy - is that contraception is not necessarily to prevent getting pregnant, but is sometimes prescribed to prevent forms of cancer.
If you listen to Rebecca Fluker talk - and the link above has a video of what shehas to say - it's clear she's talking about contraceptives being used to prevent illness, not just because women want to have sex every day with 3 or 4 partners, as Rush - and the article from which he was reading - implied.
Well...I would think that that's the fault of the terminology. When someone says, "Oh, I'm using contraceptives" the average person doesn't think, "Oh, she's trying to treat Ovarian cancer" - no, they think, oh, she doesn't want to get pregnant.
Rename the medicine to what its function does, and maybe insurance would cover it!
I'm going to give Rush the benefit of the doubt and assume he made his deductions only from that article - and didn't bother to listen to what Fluker was actually saying.
And its interesting - apparently Proflowers and some mattress company are withdrawing their advertising from Rush's show - two companies that have the most to do with sex and romance, eh?
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