(ThyBlackMan.com) Rush Limbaugh attacked the young woman on his radio show, saying Sandra Fluke “goes before a Congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex, what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. Sandra Fluke wants to be paid to have sex.”
In a personal statement issued on his website, Rush Limbaugh apologized for his comments about Ms. Sandra Fluke: I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Sandra Fluke.”
Though his statement began apologetically, it soon changed in tone, still taking a jab at Sandra Fluke, albeit indirectly:”I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress. I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities.” 
Though Rush Limbaugh apologized for his attack on Sandra Fluke herself, he did not revise his essential position, and continued to insist that the reasons that possessed Sandra Fluke to appear before Congress to discuss the importance of contraception had to do with her “personal recreational activities.” For Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke’s motivation remained a matter of personal interest, rather than principle.
Though Ron Paul expressed doubt that Rush Limbaugh’s apology was sincere, he went on to discuss the contraception debate in a way that shows that he ultimately agrees with Rush Limbaugh. Neither of the men discussed social issues explicitly in their approach to this issue—their focus on who should pay for contraception, rather than whether contraception is moral in itself—gave their arguments a point of commonality.
Ron Paul began by telling host Bob Scheiffer that he was not opposed to birth control pills in themselves: “As an OB doctor, I certainly endorse the whole idea of birth control, but this is something different” Ron Paul continued, “This is philosophically and politically important because… does the government have a mandate to tell insurance companies what to give?”
Dr. Ron Paul went on to argue that it does not make sense, in his view, to ask people to pay for what services that they will not use, or services which offend them. Ron Paul gave an example from his own past: “When I first started buying medical insurance, you could have a choice whether you should have OB care or not. Why should someone who’s not going to have a baby be forced to pay for the OB care of a younger person? That’s a total destruction of the marketplace.”
Rush Limbaugh and Ron Paul agree on the point that there should not be a mandate in insurance policies that requires people to pay for services that they don’t use. They also both seem to be opposed to a mandate that would require insurance companies to provide services across the board that only a certain minority of the population might find necessary. Unlike Rush Limbaugh, however, Ron Paul will not likely find it necessary to publicly apologize for the manner in which he has expressed these views.
Note: Are you glad to see Ron Paul speak out on this? With that Ron Paul campaign marches on literally.
Via AP
