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NWLC Says O'Reilly Statement Made Up & Offensive By: Steve - July 24, 2011 - 10:00am Commenting on the Institute of Medicine's recommendation that contraception should be considered a preventative service and co-pays for contraception should be eliminated, Bill O'Reilly made this bogus claim: O'REILLY: "Many women who get pregnant are blasted out of their minds when they have sex. They're not going to use birth control anyway."Then Judy Waxman, The Vice President of Health and Reproductive Services at the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) responded to O'Reilly's statement by saying this: WAXMAN: "Almost all the women that are heterosexual use contraceptives at some time. There is no study that O'Reilly refers to when he says that. He totally made that up. It is his opinion and it is offensive."Waxman also noted many other problems with O'Reilly's statement, saying this: WAXMAN: The Institute of Medicine recommended that the preventative services package which will be required to be covered in all new private health plans in the U.S. should include the full range of FDA contraceptive methods.In other words, O'Reilly was wrong, he just made it up. And not only will the Government not be paying for it, the program would actually save the taxpayers money. So O'Reilly had it all wrong, and he lied to you. |