Quote Originally Posted by Thorne View Post
And, contrary to Limbaugh's implications, you don't take a pill every time you have sex. Unless you're using the aspirin technique.
As I recall, Limbaugh was mocking Fluke's hugely inflated claimed costs of buying contraception when 'the pill' was documented as being commercially sold for $9 per month within about 3 blocks of her university, as well as available free from Planned Parenthood and others - and, apparently, covered by the university's health plan as long as it's for non-contraceptive medical reasons, too. If I appeared in public complaining about how terrible a burden it is having to pay $300 per day* to commute to work, would it not be reasonable to mock my apparent international detour?

As you point out, greater activity wouldn't account for the greater costs, so someone calculated it in terms of contraception which does vary with usage instead - giving the figures of multiple times per day some then pointed to.

(* Fluke was claiming the $9/month pill Planned Parenthood give for free amounted to $1000 per year; $300/day would be roughly my current commuting costs inflated by a similar amount. Sadly for me, Planned Parenthood don't offer free transportation, though I suppose I could try switching to bus rather than train...)