Pia de Solenni has a jaw-dropping piece in NRO today about a morning radio show here in D.C. that aired a vulgar broadcast interviewing callers who joked about having multiple abortions. The host, “Elliott” of Elliott in the Morning on D.C. 101, held a contest to find the woman who had had the most abortions. de Solenni reports:

Caller number four was Theresa. She was calling to talk about her “son’s father’s mother” and her abortions. After explaining that the now deceased woman had had ten abortions, one of which she performed upon herself — Elliot volunteered to give her a posthumous award — Theresa asked, “Is there any way that I can get a t-shirt?” Theresa, there are easier ways to get a t-shirt…

Interestingly, of the eight callers during this segment, four were men. One asked, “Hey, um, does me givin’ one count?” Naturally, Elliot’s interest was perked: “Are you a doctor?” The caller laughed, “No, I’m a dude. Just an average Joe.” As he recounted the story, it had something to do with the girlfriend of a friend. Elliot replied, “Alright. Ok. No, no. There’s part of me that wants to know this story but I think, I think, it’s probably a bad idea.” And they all laughed — a perfect setup for the next caller who identified himself as “K-dog.”

K-dog: “I got all these people beat. Between my first wife and my second wife, uh, 16 [abortions]. And I got five kids.”
Elliot: “Are you lying just to get on the radio?”
K-dog: “Naw. Swear to God.”
Elliot: “Oh. But wait a minute. You. That’s very funny. You didn’t personally get 16 women pregnant.”…
K-dog: “I got two women pregnant 16 times.”

Now, with his five surviving children, that makes at least 21 pregnancies for K-dog, who finished the first part of the call by asking, “What’s the prize? Is it a shop-vac?” When asked why he didn’t use an apparently less expensive method of birth control like a condom, K-dog shrugged it off. After all, as Diane, the second host chimed in, “Insurance pays for it [abortion].”

Reason #9,542 I don’t listen to the radio anymore…

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Contact info for the Elliott in the Morning show here.

More info at Catholic Online.