On Thursday, Limbaugh expanded on his thoughts but offered no apology. “She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception.” “She wants to be paid to have sex,” Limbaugh continued. “It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute.” “What does that make her?” Limbaugh said on his show Wednesday night. None of the women who testified at the congressional hearing spoke in favor of the mandate.Īt Pelosi’s hearing, Fluke said her fellow students at Georgetown, a Jesuit university, pay as much as $1,000 a year for birth control because campus health plans do not include coverage of contraceptives for women. Republicans who ran the hearing said Fluke’s name was submitted too late (Democrats disagree). Pelosi arranged for Fluke to testify after she was excluded from an official congressional hearing on the contraceptive mandate in the nation’s health-care law. She argued that birth control should be covered by health insurance at religious institutions. The Georgetown law student derided as a “slut” and “prostitute” by Rush Limbaugh for her support of women’s access to birth control spoke out against the conservative talk show host Friday morning.Īppearing on NBC’s “Today,” Sandra Fluke said she was “stunned” and “outraged” by Limbaugh’s comments, which she deemed “an attempt to silence me, to silence all of us from speaking about the healthcare we need.”įluke, a third-year law student, testified about Georgetown’s policy on contraception during an unofficial hearing last Thursday that was led by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
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