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Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Thursday said that Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke was wrong to want contraception to be covered by her health insurance, referring to the medication as "lifestyle help."

In a statement on his website over the weekend, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said he “sincerely” apologized to Fluke, who he had called a “slut” and a “prostitute” after she testified before Congress about the need for contraception coverage at colleges and universities, even if they are owned by religious institutions.

Appearing on ABC's The View on Thursday, O'Reilly agreed that Limbaugh's choice of words had been "inappropriate."

"The bigger issue is the entitlement state versus Ms. Fluck's [sic] opinion that she is owed a certain amount of lifestyle help," O'Reilly remarked.

Hosts Barbara Walters and Joy Behar pointed out that drugs to treat erectile dysfunction, like Viagra and Levitra, were covered by most insurance companies.

"The Centers for Disease Control basically categories things, and they say this is a malady, this is a medical condition and this isn't," O'Reilly explained. "And so Viagra comes under the government's guidelines for medical condition. Contraception doesn't. So look, I don't care. Doesn't matter to me."

"It's in motion now that if you need birth control and you go to a federal clinic, you get it," he continued. "So there really isn't any problem, you can get it. And then if you don't want to drive down to the clinic, you can go to Walmart or you can go to Target and get it for $9 a month. So, to insert this into a giant Obamacare bill seems to be unnecessary to me."

"So do you consider a vasectomy a health issue then?" Behar asked. "Because that's covered."

"I don't consider anything anything," O'Reilly grumbled. "I'm not a doctor. I don't know."

(H/T: The Huffington Post)

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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says an amendment put forward by Senate Republicans that would have allowed any business to exclude contraceptives from health care plans was not really about birth control.

"The Blunt amendment was broader than that," Santorum told Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday. "It was a conscience clause exception that existed prior to when President Obama decided that he could impose his values on people of faith, when people of faith believe that this is a grievous moral wrong."

"But the Blunt Amendment wasn't just talking about Catholic institutions -- Catholic colleges, charities -- it was saying any -- you know, U.S. Steel -- any company, any insurance company could decide not to offer birth control," Wallace noted.

"No, it wasn't about birth control," Santorum, who is Catholic, insisted. "It was about a moral exception to any type of mandate. ... We hear so much about the left wanting to separate church and state. Well, how about the separation of church and state when the state wants to force the church and people who are believers into doing something that they don't want to do."

Last week, the anti-contraception amendment sponsored by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) was in a 51-48 vote.

Wallace went on to press Santorum on whether he still believes that the 99 percent of all women in the U.S. who had used birth control had done something wrong.

"I'm reflecting the views of the Church that I believe in," the former Pennsylvania senator replied. "We used to be tolerant of those beliefs. I guess now when you have beliefs that are consistent with the church, you are somehow out of touch with the mainstream. And that to me is a pretty sad situation when you can't have personally-held beliefs."