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<\/a>CALLER: No. Nobody. And, you know what? They say that it\u2019s good for my health if I brush my teeth. It prevents tooth decay, it\u2019s good for my physical body, and so should the taxpayers provide me toothpaste and a toothbrush? No. I go to the store and I buy it. If I want contraception, I can go to a doctor, I can get a prescription, and I can pay a copay. It is accessible. It is not something that\u2019s being prevented. So why does this point not come up every time they say, “Oh, we have to provide access, we have to provide access.” There is access. And, you know, here\u2019s a thought —<\/p>\nRUSH: Okay, so what\u2019s your theory? How would you answer the question?<\/p>\n
CALLER: My theory is, there\u2019s already access. That\u2019s the theory. If you really want to take it to the extreme, how about some personal responsibility. If you don\u2019t want to have a baby, don\u2019t have sex. I mean that\u2019s pretty simple. These women talk about how —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Do you realize how hurtful that is? And that\u2019s easy for you to say. That\u2019s so easy for you to say, don\u2019t have sex. Do you realize you can\u2019t stop kids from having sex. They\u2019re gonna have sex and there\u2019s nothing we can do to stop it. That\u2019s what they tell us.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, if we want to be, you know, live in a defeatist country, well, then, sure, we can say that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: My question to you, Denise, is why is the regime trying to make it clear that somebody else needs to provide your contraception when they don\u2019t provide your toothpaste? What is it about contraception that the Democrat Party is gonna hitch itself to and say, “This must be free, it must be plentiful, and it must be made available by everybody, for everybody.”<\/p>\n
CALLER: Because it\u2019s just another one of the entitlement mentalities that the people —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, but why not toothpaste, why not mouthwash?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, \u2019cause probably the people who are gonna get abortions really don\u2019t care a lot about that kind of stuff. I mean they want their free stuff. They want to be able to go out, like you said, they want to act like minks, they don\u2019t care about that kind of stuff, but they want to be able to live their life the way they want.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The answer is none of that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I don\u2019t mean to put you down. Don\u2019t misunderstand.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The answer is to be found in politics. You got close when you equated contraception with abortion. It\u2019s women\u2019s rights. It is a way to set up the notion that Republicans are Neanderthals and don\u2019t like women and oppose women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Let me try answering my question, why is contraception so important that it must be paid for by somebody else? It\u2019s so important that you have contraceptives. It can\u2019t be left up to you to even take the initiative to provide them for yourself. They have to be provided for you. Why not toothpaste? Why not hotel rooms? Why not a car? What is it, as far as liberals are concerned, that makes contraceptives a must-have? Do you want to take a stab at it, Snerdley, or do you need to think about it? I\u2019m sure a lot of you need to think about it. <\/p>\n
Also, this language deception that contraception not covered by government or taxpayer money equals contraception outlawed is typical of the left. They are trying to convince people that if contraception isn\u2019t covered by your insurance plan or isn\u2019t covered by Obamacare, if it isn\u2019t paid for by somebody else, then somebody\u2019s trying to outlaw it, and this is how they use the language and how they work. And it\u2019s the language of the politics of fear. And this then begs the question, why are so many people afraid of birth? You have to ask the question. If contraception is this crucial, what\u2019s the fear of not having contraception? What\u2019s the result of not having contraception? The result is birth, or abortion. Abortion\u2019s covered, Planned Parenthood is probably a close second to the unions in a money laundering operation for the Democrat Party. Planned Parenthood is rolling in dough from abortion. <\/p>\n
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So why would the Democrat Party want to make sure that there aren\u2019t any pregnancies? What is this deal with contraception, what is so crucial about this? Well, when you come to the language games that they play, contraception not covered by government or taxpayer money equals contraception outlawed, that\u2019s what they want you to think. If the government isn\u2019t providing for it, if your insurance company doesn\u2019t give it to you, then somehow it\u2019s outlawed? That\u2019s what they want you to think. Fear. It\u2019s the same mind-set that anything not done by the government doesn\u2019t exist, such as private charity. If the government doesn\u2019t do it, it doesn\u2019t happen, the left wants you to believe. So in one regard here, we have a language trap. Most end up debating the issue while making the mistake of accepting the premise. And I always find my way to the premise, because that\u2019s where the Republicans get in trouble. <\/line><\/p>\n
It\u2019s always the Democrats who are announcing these massive initiatives, and it\u2019s always the Republicans who react to them. Like somebody will say, “We need national health care.” And Republicans will not say, “No, we don\u2019t.” They\u2019ll say, “The way you\u2019re doing it is wrong. What we need to do is, okay, health care, insurance for everybody, fine, we need medical insurance accounts, savings accounts or what have you.” Now, I\u2019m going to throw some things out for you to think about, not necessarily that I agree with. What is this great fear of pregnancy? Because if you don\u2019t have a contraceptive, and if you engage in sexual activity, the result is gonna be pregnancy. That\u2019s the fear, right? So what\u2019s wrong with that? What do Democrats inherently fear about pregnancy? Well, they\u2019ve made it into a disease. <\/p>\n
Pregnancy is a great health risk for women. If you haven\u2019t noticed, we had the quotes last week. They say that pregnancy is a greater health risk than abortion. It\u2019s a means of getting women to the abortion clinics to pay whatever cost, three, 500 bucks, money laundering operation, Democrat Party. Could it be that Democrats fear kids? I mean they are aborting their own people. The vast majority of people having abortions are Democrat voters. Look at what people lead to, global warming, overpopulation, starving, pestilence, look at all the things liberals claim will happen if there are too many people. Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, totally disproven yet still a Bible of the American left. Overpopulation will lead to disease, starving, famine, thirst, squalor, poverty, can\u2019t have any of that. So gotta pass out the contraceptives. <\/p>\n
Maybe, if you\u2019re an average Democrat couple, you fear that if you have a boy, he\u2019ll grow up to be a horrible man. You\u2019ll have a boy, he\u2019ll grow up to be a man. That\u2019s not good. What are men? Predators, they don\u2019t shave every day, risque brutes, smelly, stinky, share bathrooms with \u2019em, ugh. If it\u2019s a girl, it\u2019s not any better \u2019cause a girl, she\u2019ll grow up to either be Madonna or a slave to some horrible man. So you could have that. “I don\u2019t want to have a child. If I have a little girl, she\u2019s just gonna grow up to be a slave to some man and if I have a little boy he\u2019s gonna grow up to be a man who enslaves some little girl. (crying) Give me my contraceptive.” <\/p>\n
We don\u2019t get guns for free. What if somebody said every American ought to have a gun, it\u2019s right there in the Second Amendment. Why don\u2019t the Democrats say every American should have a gun and if you don\u2019t your health insurance company is gonna provide you one? It\u2019s fascinating to me because the left wants us to fear an intrusive government when the Republicans are running it, a government that can take away their abortions. It\u2019s hilarious. That\u2019s what they fear. But when Obama was talking about his own little girls and abortion, do you remember what he said? I\u2019m going to paraphrase, but the president of the United States referred to the possibility that his little girls could be punished with a baby. Remember? Could be punished with a baby. There\u2019s something liberals look at, the birth of a child causes them problems. It\u2019s either gonna lead to global warming, famine, overpopulation, pestilence, mosquitoes, malaria, hunger, you name it. <\/line>They never see the good in it. And if the contraception doesn\u2019t work, then we\u2019ll march \u2019em into Planned Parenthood. <\/line><\/p>\n
Okay. So back to the question, which is the premise: Why, of all things, must contraception be free? Why must everyone have it? Men or women, either a condom, or the birth control pill, or if you screw up, RU-486, which is an abortion pill \u2019cause that happens after conception, right? So why? What is it? Save the planet? Kill the people? There are wacko environmentalists who think that the earth is threatened by people, and they are leftists, and they are more common than you think. They were all over Occupy Wall Street. But pregnancy can mean being punished with a baby. The president of the United States said that himself. <\/p>\n
So you think about it. See if you come up with an answer, \u2019cause they are hell-bent. It is their issue. They started with this on January 7th in a Republican debate. It became the focal point of this whole Catholic Church business last week, and now they\u2019re running fundraising letters, the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, claiming Republicans want to ban contraception.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Something else to look at, ladies and gentlemen, when trying to answer the question, “Why contraceptives? Why is the regime and the Democrat Party hell-bent on contraception being free, provided by government, mandated by government via insurance? Why?” Take a look political polling. Just a wild guess. Where does Obama stand with women on the reelect? I don\u2019t know. Find out. You might get the answer there. I don\u2019t pretend to know every answer to this. I think it\u2019s multifaceted, but I do know that there is a culture of death associated with the Democrat Party. They are obsessed with it. College girls, too. Check the Obama reelect numbers on women. It could well be.<\/p>\n
It could be aimed at the dumb asses that we\u2019re talking about. I\u2019m sorry, dumb “masses.” I said that wrong. The dumb masses that are still watching Whitney Houston death coverage. I\u2019m telling you, that\u2019s who Obama\u2019s going for in terms of reelection. Find out where he is with women on the numbers, on the reelect numbers.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Mike, Chula Vista, California. Glad you waited. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi. Yeah, Rush, the question I have is: If this birth control mandate is so important, why was it not included when they wrote the bill originally?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, it doesn\u2019t have to be. They can do this even outside of Obamacare, but within Obamacare, they can mandate anything. Once it is declared constitutional, “as the secretary shall determine” is in the bill throughout the 2700 pages. So if they decide that you can only have two babies, they can do that. I\u2019m not exaggerating. This is a great illustration. It\u2019s a great question, it\u2019s a fabulous question, and it permits me to illustrate what we\u2019re really dealing with here. It doesn\u2019t have to be in there, is the point. And they wouldn\u2019ta got this passed if it was in there. If this had been discovered, if it was specified that the government could mandate that your insurance company either pay for an abortion or contraception, it woulda raised all kinds of hell. Remember Bart Stupak? How is Bart Stupak feeling these days? This is the kind of stuff they promised Bart Stupak wasn\u2019t gonna happen in order to get his vote. Democrat Congressman from Michigan. If Kathleen Sebelius happens to be a freak and she wants you to wear your underwear on the outside, guess what? ‘Cause underwear could be an indicator of a health problem! You\u2019re forced to wear it on the outside. Are Medicare, Medicaid mandated to do it? I don\u2019t know yet. But this is just the beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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