Obama’s controversial birth control mandate that totally excluded women from testifying on the absurd grounds that the issue is solely one of religious freedom, not women’s health.
Later that week, the woman who had been scheduled to testify—Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke—was finally given her chance to speak in a panel organized by Democrats.
In her testimony, Fluke spoke of the pain of watching a friend be forced to have an ovary removed due to ovarian cysts, a fate that insurer-provided birth control might have prevented.
Now, fast-forward to Wednesday, when conservative radio host and provocateur Rush Limbaugh called Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute”*—despicable, but not surprising. But what he did next really seems to have crossed a line. On Thursday, Limbaugh laughed off the outrage at his previous remarks with an ejaculation of boy’s club crassness.
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