Sandra Fluke has been
nominated for TIME’s Person of the Year 2012 for being too stupid to find her way to Target and get
birth control for $9 a month.
The daughter of a conservative Christian pastor, Sandra Fluke, 31,
became a women’s-rights activist in college and continued her advocacy
as a law student at Georgetown. After she complained about being denied a
chance to testify at a Republican-run House hearing on insurance
coverage for birth control, Rush Limbaugh called Fluke a “slut.”
Democrats and many Republicans reacted with outrage, and the left made
Limbaugh’s slur Exhibit A in what they called a GOP “war on women.”
Fluke, meanwhile, weathered the attention with poise and maturity and
emerged as a political celebrity. Democrats gave her a
national-convention speaking slot as part of their push to make
reproductive rights a central issue in the 2012 presidential campaign —
one that helped Barack Obama trounce Mitt Romney among single women on
Election Day.
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