{"id":16377,"date":"2012-03-02T19:18:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T19:18:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-02T19:18:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T19:18:57","slug":"democrats_have_lost_on_abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/03\/02\/democrats_have_lost_on_abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Have Lost on Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We had the sound bite yesterday on this program. Kathleen Sebelius<\/a> was testifying on Capitol Hill. She actually said, quote: “The reduction in the number of pregnancies compensates for the cost of contraception.” She was suggesting that fewer babies born would make the cost of contraception not be as much, and it would reduce health care costs overall as well. Now, what\u2019s happening here politically with the elevation of contraception here to such prominence in the national debate? To me, it is evidence that the Democrats and the left have encountered utter political and moral failure on their decades-long abortion push. <\/p>\n

It just isn\u2019t the winning issue for them it used to be. <\/p>\n

<\/a>It is not the issue. If it were, this wouldn\u2019t be about contraception. This would be about abortion. Follow me on this. This is key politically. The Democrats need these planks to scare voters about the Republican Party. If abortion were still the winning issue that the Democrats think that it used to be, Sandra Fluke <\/a>would be testifying about that. Sandra Fluke would be upset that abortion is not being paid for at Georgetown, a Catholic Jesuit university. But she\u2019s not, is she? She\u2019s testifying about contraception. “Contraception” is the replacement plank for “abortion” in the Democrat Party platform. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening here, in a political sense. <\/p>\n

Now, it isn\u2019t going to work. Not only because of the failure of logic and broad persuasive power, but because the whole ginned-up thing is so phony! Free and cheap contraception is available everywhere. Nobody\u2019s been denied contraception. It\u2019s free. As mentioned yesterday: In Washington, DC, just call the Board of Health, call the Department of Health, and they\u2019ll send you as many condoms as you want. But the thing is, voters know this. Voters know that contraception is not being denied to anyone. Voters know that contraception is cheap! It is available anywhere, any time, in abundance. <\/p>\n

There is no army of whipped-up, angry female voters ready to mobilize on this issue no matter what the Democrats and the media are pretending here. Sandra Fluke is “an army of one.” They may be able to get five or six stragglers but this is not representative in a political sense now of any mass movement. And if they create one, that will be exactly what they\u2019ve done: Create it. Because it doesn\u2019t exist. For this to be genuine, contraception would be difficult to find. Birth control pills would be priced out of site, it would be difficult to get them, and therefore the demand would be genuine. But it\u2019s not! Contraception\u2019s everywhere. It\u2019s cheap.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s five bucks at Walmart we heard yesterday! So what I\u2019m doing and what I\u2019m saying and how I\u2019m reacting is “reprehensible.” But it\u2019s not reprehensible for Obama to violate the Constitution. It\u2019s not reprehensible for Obama to impose his own morality on the Catholic Church and all of its schools and all of its hospitals. No, that\u2019s not reprehensible? To me it is. To me it\u2019s insulting and reprehensible. It\u2019s also very frightening. The president of the United States is behaving outside the bounds of the Constitution. This is something Henry VIII would do. They find me reprehensible. I can\u2019t do anything. I can\u2019t deny you anything. I can\u2019t provide you anything. I can\u2019t mandate that you get anything. I can\u2019t do one thing to you. <\/p>\n

Obama can — wants to, in fact! <\/p>\n

Now, what\u2019s the central element here that\u2019s in all of the Drive-By stories is missing? It\u2019s very simple. What\u2019s missing in this… Let me explain it in a different way. Let me illustrate it as a lot of people see it. In fact, if you\u2019re new to the program today, this is probably what you think. We have this struggling co-ed at Georgetown, and when she got there she found out that they\u2019ve got this very discriminatory restrictive policy on contraception. She can\u2019t get any. And the Republican Party hates women and doesn\u2019t want this student, this co-ed, to have her birth control pills. So she has courageously and bravely sacrificed her anonymity and her privacy to step forward and lead a cause against a highly discriminating, repressive Georgetown University denying her a birth control pill here or there. <\/p>\n

The truth is… And if this were reported as part of the story, all the rest of this would make sense. If everything she has said were part of the story, it would all make sense. It was Sandra Fluke who said that she was having so much sex, she can\u2019t afford it. See, it\u2019s a different thing for people to hear. People may be sympathetic. Here\u2019s a 30-year-old woman. She might not have a lot of money despite how much Georgetown costs. (But I\u2019m talking about perception.) She wants to have sex now and then but just can\u2019t. She\u2019s a very responsible woman but she can\u2019t because people are denying her contraception. The truth is, she\u2019s spending a thousand dollars a year on pills, and she\u2019s going broke and wants us to buy it. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, if that were part of this story… That\u2019s central to this! That is the foundation of this story. That\u2019s why she\u2019s there. By her own admission, in her own words, Sandra Fluke is having so much sex that she can\u2019t afford it. She\u2019s going broke, I believe she said. And then she said she\u2019d run the numbers and that the circumstances are the same for 40% of the co-eds at Georgetown, that they will spend $3,000 on contraception — and that\u2019s somehow just not fair. She claimed that 40% of the female students at Georgetown Law reported that they “struggle financially” as a result of the policy at Georgetown. They “struggle financially.” Why are they struggling financially? They are struggling financially because they\u2019re having a lot of sex for which they need a lot of contraception. <\/p>\n

Now, they\u2019re laughing on the other side of the glass. I happen to think this is fundamental to the story. Is it not… (interruption) Dawn, are you worried here I\u2019m just stepping in it deeper? Yes, you are. But this is the truth. (interruption) Oh. Does she have more boyfriends? Ha! They\u2019re lined up around the block. They would have been in my day. Anyway, without that being part of the story, it\u2019s quite understandable that people who hear this on the periphery, might say, “What the heck? I don\u2019t understand.” But by her own admission… Maybe they\u2019re not having a lot of sex and want to; I don\u2019t know. But she\u2019s saying that they are struggling financially as a result of the policy at Georgetown.<\/p>\n

Struggling financially. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s $1,000 a year for contraception that she can\u2019t afford and wants us to pay for it. You put that, Brian Williams, in your report tonight. All the rest of you on cable news, you put that in there. Use her own words! I\u2019m not making any of it up. You put all the details that she brought forth. She\u2019s struggling financially. Why? Just quote her. Her sex life is active and she\u2019s having sex so frequently that she can\u2019t afford all the birth control pills that she needs. Is what she\u2019s saying. You put that in the story and it changes for everybody. But politically, what this really means is that abortion doesn\u2019t carry the weight politically that it used to, and this whole contraception thing is a replacement plank for what\u2019s failing on the abortion side.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Babs in Illinois, great to have you on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I\u2019d just like to say: “Thank goodness this woman is taking birth control so there won\u2019t be any more of her around.” Now, can we put this subject to bed, \u2019cause I\u2019m tired of it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (chuckling) Go ahead.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you want to talk about? <\/p>\n

CALLER: (silence)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, that\u2019s all she wanted? So she said, “Thank goodness this woman is taking birth control so there won\u2019t be any more of her around.” Well, isn\u2019t that the point? She isn\u2019t. She\u2019s run out! (interruption) She said she\u2019s out. That\u2019s why she\u2019s up at Congress asking for money for more. (interruption) Well, I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m just assuming that she\u2019s unable to have protected sex. That\u2019s why this is an issue. (interruption) Well, I hadn\u2019t looked at it that way. “Put the subject to bed,” that\u2019s quite funny. (laughing) Babs, there\u2019s only one thing: It\u2019s Open Line Friday and the callers get to talk about what they want to talk about. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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