Rush Limbaugh enied that the advertiser boycott of his show after he called Fluke a slut would cost him anything, but a year later, it's clear that prediction wasn't true. It has, at the very least, cost him his relationship with the radio network giant Cumulus Media.
Less than 24 hours after Senator John McCain told Republicans should lay off the subject of abortion, his home state launched its "A Woman's Right to Know" website — a site loaded with misinformation that appears specifically designed to steer women away from their abortions.
Discovered: A camouflage robot; judges give shorter sentences when they believe in the science behind psychopathy; a contraceptive pill for men; developing 3D printers for test-tube meat.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the GOP and contraception.
Sen. Roy Blunt endorsed Mitt Romney Wednesday, and both the Romney campaign and liberals are eager for you to know it.
A group of economists has found that women who had better access to the Pill were earning 8 percent more than those who didn't by the time they reached age 50.
Rush Limbaugh has issued an apology to Sandra Fluke: He never meant to "attack" the Georgetown law student by calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute." Advertisers are dropping out, anyway.
Rush Limbaugh's recent, awful attacks on Georgetown student Sandra Fluke, who had the audacity to testify about contraception at a hearing led by House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi last Thursday, have inspired calls for Limbaugh to apologize as well as at least one company to pull advertising from his radio show.
Sleep Train became the first advertiser to drop Rush Limbaugh over his recent tasteless comments about women and contraception, but if a growing Twitter campaign to boycott his advertisers is any indication, it won't be the last.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson riffs on "women in combat."
When it comes to matters of birth control, it often seems like we're living in another time.
It's a ham sandwich ... no, it's totally the cause of prostate cancer ... wait it's Bayer aspirin? Today was the day that everyone had something to say about contraception without actually talking about contraception.
Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) have walked out on the House Oversight Committee's hearing on the White House mandate requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage after chairman Rep. Darrell Issa failed to include any women as witnesses Thursday morning.
Speaker of the House John Boehner made a floor speech Wednesday vowing to repeal the Obama Administration's rule requiring some Catholic-affiliated organizations to offer health care coverage that includes birth control.
President Obama is looking to cut a deal with Catholic leaders on a rule requiring religious employers to cover contraceptives, but it's not clear how the president will wiggle.
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