'How do you become a mom if you’re into birth control?' Limbaugh said. Rush scoffs: No 'birth control moms'

Rush Limbaugh on Monday laughed off the suggestion that the 2012 landscape will be shaped by a new voting bloc — the so-called birth control moms — as he compared them to the “invented voting group” made up of soccer moms.

“There aren’t any ‘birth control moms’ out there. You know, the ‘soccer moms,’ if you recall, there really weren’t any ‘soccer moms,’ either,” Limbaugh said on his show.


The conservative radio host was prompted by a recent POLITICO story headlined, “2012: The year of ‘birth control moms’?” which examined whether the issue of contraception will have women voters swinging left to back President Barack Obama’s reelection bid.

Limbaugh argued that Democrats are accusing Republicans — presidential candidate Rick Santorum in particular — of wanting to ban birth control in an effort to turn voters against the GOP.

“Nobody … including Santorum — nobody is suggesting that we ban contraception, particularly at the federal level,” he said, according to a transcript of the show. “This is a totally manufactured issue.”

He added, “They do not have the economy, they do not have one thing in Obama’s record they can point to and say, ‘You want four more years of this? Vote for us!’ So they have to gin something up, and they have done it here. And so now they’re going drum up this ‘birth control moms’? Isn’t that kind of contradictory? A birth control mom? How do you become a mom if you’re into birth control?”

Describing soccer moms as “average, ordinary, middle-class women who drove SUVs and vans” who were taken for granted by their own spouses, Limbaugh also cracked a joke about ex-President Bill Clinton.

“Clinton cared more about them than their own lousy husbands did. That was the ‘soccer mom’ contingent. Their own husbands took them for granted, their own husbands couldn’t have cared less, but Bill Clinton cared,” he said.