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One Month Later, Rush Limbaugh Sitting Pretty

Advertisers coming back, and stations not booting him

(Newser) - Remember all the outrage, the advertiser exodus , the calls for Rush Limbaugh to be permanently taken off the air after he called birth control advocate Sandra Fluke a slut ? Well, one month on, all that appears to be in the past. In the past two weeks, just one additional...

19% of Pharmacies to 17-Year-Olds: No Plan B
19% of Pharmacies to
17-Year-Olds: No Plan B
study says
Mar 28, 2012 10:41 AM CDT

19% of Pharmacies to 17-Year-Olds: No Plan B

...by law, they're supposed to sell it to teens of that age

(Newser) - Pharmacies are required by law to provide over-the-counter emergency contraception to 17-year-olds without a prescription, but a new study in Pediatrics journal found that one out of five drugstores does not comply. Boston University researchers contacted all the pharmacies (943 total) in five big cities twice, posing as a 17-year-old...

Ariz. Bill Lets All Bosses Deny Birth Control Coverage

ACLU slams bill now before state Senate

(Newser) - More contraception controversy: A bill before Arizona's Senate would allow all employers, not just faith-based ones, to exclude birth control from health insurance coverage. "We live in America. We don’t live in the Soviet Union,” one of the bill's Republican sponsors says. "So government...

GOP Handing 2016 to Hillary
 GOP Handing 2016 to Hillary 
Maureen Dowd
Mar 14, 2012 9:57 AM CDT

GOP Handing 2016 to Hillary

Maureen Dowd thinks Republicans have a bout of 'mass misogyny'

(Newser) - On Saturday, Hillary Clinton took a resounding shot at Republicans. "Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me," she said. "It doesn't matter what country they're in or what religion they claim. They want to control women." Clinton isn't supposed...

Sandra Fluke: Name Calling Won't Silence Us

Fluke says certain nameless detractors won't stop her

(Newser) - Sandra Fluke contributed an op-ed to CNN today, and though she doesn't mention Rush Limbaugh by name, she makes clear that she wasn't cowed by his "slut" diatribe. "Opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves," she writes....

Hey, Men: Contraception Is Your Fight, Too

This is not just a women's issue: Glenn W. Smith and James Moore

(Newser) - Women may be the people who actually take birth control pills, but men benefit from the practice just the same. The pill "has made our sex lives a lot simpler, and let's admit it, a hell of a lot more enjoyable," write Glenn W. Smith and James...

5 Other Things Employers Should Have to Provide
5 Other Things Employers Should Have to Provide
OPINION
Mar 12, 2012 1:01 PM CDT

5 Other Things Employers Should Have to Provide

Birth control is great, but why not a salad bar?: Allysia Finley

(Newser) - For too long, employers have insisted on determining for themselves which employee benefits to offer, but President Obama's "2,000-page health law" cuts that conceit off at the pass, writes Allysia Finley in the Wall Street Journal . Now the government decides, and the government wants employees to get...

Make Birth Control Over the Counter
 Make Birth Control 
 Over the Counter 
OPINION
Mar 9, 2012 1:37 PM CST

Make Birth Control Over the Counter

The pill is as safe as everything else in the drug store: Virginia Postrel

(Newser) - The controversy over oral contraceptives raises one obvious question: Why the heck aren't they available over the counter? "True, making the pill available over the counter could reduce the amount of outrage and invective available for entertaining radio audiences," Virginia Postrel of Bloomberg quips. "But the...

Doc: Are We Paying for Limbaugh's Viagra?

Are health insurance consumers paying Rush to have sex?

(Newser) - If Rush Limbaugh doesn't want to absorb some of the cost of female contraception as a health insurance consumer, others are wondering: Why should we pay for Limbaugh's Viagra? "We know" Limbaugh "has used Viagra, which is covered by medical insurance plans," Dr. Nancy Snyderman...

Murkowski Regrets Vote on Birth Control

Alaska senator rethinks support of Blunt amendment

(Newser) - Lisa Murkowski says she's had a change of heart on the Blunt amendment , and would vote against it if given a second chance. The Alaska Republican has taken heat from moderate women back home for supporting the amendment, which would have allowed employers to opt out of any health...

Heaton Back on Twitter, With Message for Sandra Fluke

Actress says she apologized last week

(Newser) - Patricia Heaton is back on Twitter , and the first thing she did upon her return was apologize to Sandra Fluke. Heaton had apparently deleted her account over the weekend after lobbing a series of tweet attacks at the Georgetown birth control advocate, but was back yesterday with the following post:...

Rush Limbaugh Too Big to Fail
 Rush Limbaugh Too Big to Fail 
analysis
Mar 6, 2012 8:42 AM CST

Rush Limbaugh Too Big to Fail

Even after Sandra Fluke comments, Rush won't go anywhere

(Newser) - Advertisers are still jumping ship from Rush Limbaugh's show in the wake of his comments about Sandra Fluke , and the Los Angeles Times notes that he has now lost 11. Which means that even for Rush, one expert notes, this controversy is pretty bad. Limbaugh is probably experiencing the...

Stewart, Colbert Spank Limbaugh

Neither host happy with Rush's comments on Sandra Fluke

(Newser) - Jon Stewart worked himself up to a fever pitch last night over the Rush Limbaugh/Sandra Fluke controversy, wondering how exactly Limbaugh got "from 'young woman trying to get a private institution to cover contraception' to 'prostitution slut having constant sexy-sex on my dime.'" But, Stewart...

Sandra Fluke: Limbaugh's Apology Changes Nothing

Georgetown law student dismisses regret from shock jock

(Newser) - It's not only advertisers who are unimpressed with Rush Limbaugh's apology. The Georgetown law student Limbaugh derided as a "slut" said today that his public apology meant little to her, ABC News reports. "I don't think that a statement like this issued, saying that his...

Darrell Issa: This Is About Overreach, not Birth Control

It was about First Amendment rights, not contraception, he argues

(Newser) - Rep. Darrell Issa says he completely supports a woman's right to use birth control—it's the government overreach that would force a religious institution to pay for that birth control that Issa objects to. Issa's recent Congressional hearing on the controversial contraception mandate—which was slammed by...

Rush: Sorry, I Descended to Left&#39;s Level
 Rush: Sorry, 
 I Descended 
 to Left's Level 
PLUS, AOL BAILS
Mar 5, 2012 1:22 PM CST

Rush: Sorry, I Descended to Left's Level

Sandra Fluke says his apology meant nothing

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh gave an on-air apology for his Sandra Fluke remarks today, in a form that's sure to leave Democrats sputtering with rage. "I sincerely apologize to Miss Fluke for using those two words to describe her. I do not think that she is either of those two...

Imus: Limbaugh a 'Fat, Gutless, Pill-Popping Loser'

Fellow radio host not impressed with Sandra Fluke apology

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh's not the only one who can call people names : Don Imus expressed his, shall we say, disappointment with the conservative radio host today, calling Limbaugh's Sandra Fluke apology "lame," particularly because it was not given in person. On Fox Business Network's Imus In ...

Patricia Heaton Attacks Sandra Fluke, Deletes Twitter

Heaton seems to agree with Rush Limbaugh on birth control

(Newser) - Patricia Heaton apparently agrees with Rush Limbaugh when it comes to Georgetown student and birth control advocate Sandra Fluke. The Everybody Loves Raymond actress tweeted a series of attacks aimed at Fluke last week, then deleted her Twitter account, Mediabistro reports. Some of the highlights, as preserved for posterity by...

Limbaugh Loses Advertiser No. 7

Rush 'overstepped bounds of decency,' says one former sponsor's CEO

(Newser) - Advertisers aren't flocking back to Rush Limbaugh since he apologized to a Georgetown law student for calling her a "slut." In fact, another company is yanking its commercials from the right-winger's radio program. "Mr. Limbaugh’s recent comments went beyond political discourse to a personal...

Obama Calls Student After Slam by Limbaugh

Sandra Fluke also takes to TV, says she was 'outraged' by 'slut' comment

(Newser) - More developments today surrounding Rush Limbaugh's labeling of law student Sandra Fluke as a "slut" in the birth control debate:
  • 'Outraged': Fluke appeared on the Today show: “I think my reaction was the reaction a lot of women have had historically when they’ve been called
...

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