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Santorum backer Foster Friess: In his day, 'gals' used aspirin between their knees for birth control | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

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In an interview with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC Thursday, billionaire Santorum backer Foster Friess said that debates over the candidate's personal objections to contraception are overblown, adding that, in his day, "gals" used aspirin as birth control.

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austinrick

In a rather strange joke, Friess said: "This contraception thing, my gosh it's so inexpensive. Back in my day they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives, the gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly." Friess is presumably saying all women who didn't want to become pregnant were abstinent and thus had no need for birth control.

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell stuttered for a moment before saying, "Excuse me, I'm just trying to catch my breath from that."

  • 10 votes
Reply#1 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 6:17 PM EST
lib50

I am having a hard time understanding these misogynists on the right. It is REALLY pissing me off, and I know I'm not the only woman who is insulted what they are doing. Now the 1st Amendment is being "interpreted" to mean religion can do anything, even when it interferes with personal rights. What is really scary is that so many of them don't even seem to get how far off the cliff they have gone.

  • 6 votes
#1.1 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:26 PM EST
ScienceGuy-356641

This creates an entirely new interpretation of the diner scene in "Five Easy Pieces."

  • 3 votes
#1.2 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 9:22 PM EST
James Essayist

Before my first kid was born, a nurse discussed contraceptives with our birthing class. She described how one earlier patient had asked if the pill was taken orally. The nurse, perhaps overestimating the patient's ability to know a legpull when she heard it, waggishly suggested that an alternate method was to hold the table between the knees. The patient apparently didn't like the taste of the pills, so she tried the second method. She was back within the year, carrying her second child.

  • 3 votes
#1.3 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 9:37 PM EST
j. johnson-3157491

hello my friend i really don't think this was a joke this guy is either the second dumbest person i've ever seen or he is so radical he feels enough out there would laugh with him instead of at him, tricked his mind, he may have wanted an excuse to back out of support for Santorum, reasonable to think if he made such an asinine statement as that, can't be a lot of luv for Santorum. God Bless

  • 2 votes
#1.4 - Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:47 AM EST
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j. johnson-3157491

hi austinrick i have been screaming to the heavens about the right's total apathetic agenda to suppress women this ugliness has been going on since the beginning of time Adam's chauvinistic attitude toward his first mate Lilith, who is controversial right up to the knuckle dragger's of today. this should and could be all that is needed for women to check the right wing candidate's off their list of politicians who are humane. let tem try and control their lives from outside of the beltway and the WH. then let them drug out on Tylenol between their cheeks the rear one's. be strong God Bless

http://www.art.net/~schong/lilithmyth.html

  • 7 votes
Reply#2 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 6:56 PM EST
Don Overton

Friess back in your day they also used coat hangers for abortions.

  • 9 votes
Reply#3 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 6:59 PM EST
neenie1991

Friess back in your day they also used coat hangers for abortions.

Good comeback to Friess' ignorant comment. What an idiotstick. I would love to send that guy a bottle of aspirin, but it's me who has the headache.

  • 3 votes
#3.1 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:32 PM EST
j. johnson-3157491

hi Don had completely forgot the horrendous part of our past, that if right had their way would once again cost the lives of women who just need help, that their "God Complex" won't allow. what do these SOB's hate their mother's or something? this IMO will be the Waterloo they tried to deliver to our beloved Pres., "what goes comes" "nothing new under the sun". with all the Bible clenching you would think they would have read it. God Bless

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1%3A9&version=NIV

  • 2 votes
#3.2 - Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:57 AM EST
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Tink-2285193

I am likely in, or close to, the same age group as Friess, and I can tell you that he is full of it. While there may have been a few 'gals' he knew that did that, the majority of young girls did not. The whole thing back then was to "make love not war", or ay other excuse young boys and/or girls could think of to excuse pre-marital sex. They relied on other forms of birth control, many of which did not work that well. The condoms at the time were totally inadequate and worthless at prevention, and were hard to find and buy. The lack of proper contraceptives led to a growth in the number of unwed mothers and shotgun weddings, that eventually led to a growth in divorces. That is why the birth control pills were so popular, as they were a more positive means of birth control. And many of those who were among the more sexually active young girls were daughters of clergymen. A good many had at least one abortion by the time they were 18 years old, and were in church every Sunday. So much for religious piety.

And I will add this...I know for a fact that there were many of my friends in Jr High and High school who used 'the pill.' And... their own Mom's got them their birth control pills, and their Dad's never had a clue.

  • 4 votes
Reply#4 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:12 PM EST
neenie1991

He was born in 1940. He is a few months older than my dad, who wouldn't DREAM of making such an ignorant, sexist comment...about birth control.

This man was in his mid-20's in the mid-60's, he must have totally missed the sexual revolution, the advent of the pill and the civil rights...never mind. He just doesn't get it and he's dangerous.

  • 4 votes
#4.1 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:37 PM EST
Don Overton

I'm sure he also missed a sight foreign adventure in the '60.

  • 3 votes
#4.2 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:22 PM EST
j. johnson-3157491

hi Tink how are you my friend? i remember those times the extended cro magnon era of unawareness, there was also lots of incest that promoted the hanger atrocity, designed to keep the public from knowing the sacrilegious going's on in there house, unfortunately most mother's felt they had no choice but to be complicit, because the man was all that and a chicken wing. still going on today. man has made women their own personal utility person whatever they want or desire and it is a shame that these same righty's try to play down laws for attacks on women. these are the q&a that needs to be asked of Santorum. be vigilant God Bless

  • 2 votes
#4.3 - Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:09 AM EST
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Sarah-3043284

You've gotta be shi$*ing me!!! I just saw a clip of this and almost crapped a brick in my pants. First, that dude is creepy and his name sounds like something out of a Stan Lee comic book. Second, if anyone actually believes that his stance, or Santorum's (hee, hee, hee, I said Santorum) are acceptable, let alone electable, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

Holy crap, when did it become okay for us to treat females as if they're second class citizen's??? I'm eating two sets of testicles for breakfast tomorrow, just on sheer principle.

  • 5 votes
Reply#5 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:34 PM EST
Shel Rama

Is this woman a dyke or just routinely foul mouthed?

  • 1 vote
#5.1 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:04 PM EST
Sarah-3043284

Just routinely foul mouthed. You sound lovely, like a little ray of sunshine. What an intelligent addition to the conversation that was.

Tell me, how do you suggest we treat polycystic ovarian sydrome, or pre-mentrual dysphoric disorder???

What are your thoughts on the costs of treating pregnancy in comparison to the costs of contraception as preventative care???

What are your thoughts on the implied right to privacy we have through the 9th and 4th Amendments, and how that weighs on this issue???

Or are you just a routine troll that likes to follow me around on the internet, because you know you would be too intimidated to ever talk to me in real life???

  • 5 votes
#5.2 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:25 PM EST
j. johnson-3157491

hi Sarah my friend i feel you but "ouch!!" that was said several decibles higher than usual, you are right men should and must take a second chair to this discourse concerning women's health. and quit the BS about cost unless it applies to their fanilies and even then they put a buck over loved ones well being? lol be strong my friend God Bless

  • 3 votes
#5.3 - Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:13 AM EST
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MDC-441879

I think Fries is trying to get even with all the girls that told him NO.

  • 5 votes
Reply#6 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:35 PM EST
ScienceGuy-356641

On a related note, Santorum's supporters advocate blood-letting to treat infections and drilling a hole in one's skull to treat mental illness.

  • 6 votes
Reply#7 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:36 PM EST
Dennis Kemmerer

ScienceGuy-356641 wrote:

On a related note, Santorum's supporters advocate blood-letting to treat infections and drilling a hole in one's skull to treat mental illness.

Seriously.

I have to just shake my head and wonder how much longer we're going to have to listen to these @!$%#ing throwbacks.

  • 3 votes
#7.1 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 9:32 PM EST
James Essayist

Wonderful. This meatheads not only have 19th century ideas of sex (at best), but 16th century ideas of medicine. They're a health hazard in so many ways.

  • 3 votes
#7.2 - Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:30 AM EST
j. johnson-3157491

hi Scienceguy long time since, how are you? the neo righty's now want them to die on the gurney if there is no insurance and their agenda provides no real help, got vouchers? stay vigilant my friend God Bless

  • 2 votes
#7.3 - Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:21 AM EST
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charger383

He must have missed all the fun

  • 1 vote
Reply#8 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:35 PM EST
Tink-2285193

I have to wonder....Santorum feels that sex should be for procreation and really should not be entered into strictly for pleasure. So...does his wife abstain until he decides she needs to spit out another kid for him, or does he reluctantly service his wife without any personal pleasure merely just to meet her 'carnal' needs to keep her from finding herself another older 'Sugar Daddy' to move in with? Or, being a good, obedient Catholic wife, she just suffers him like many other good, obedient Catholic wives who don't believe in divorce? Or...maybe he's just really that bad in bed.

Just wondering. It does not sound like the making of a very happy marriage, other than for himself.... and that sounds like all that matters to him.

  • 3 votes
#8.1 - Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:19 AM EST
James Essayist

And how happy can he be, with his obsessive ranting over women enjoying themselves and gays even existing? He protests too much, and might (sub)consciously want to join one group or both in an orgy.

  • 3 votes
#8.2 - Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:01 AM EST
j. johnson-3157491

hey James maybe we'll hear about a backroom affair of Santorum's, hey it could happen:+) God Bless

  • 3 votes
#8.3 - Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:23 AM EST
James Essayist

He's one of the few to miss being tarred with that brush so far. Could happen, indeed.

Blessings to you too.

  • 2 votes
#8.4 - Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:54 PM EST
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Tink-2285193

I agree, James. It does appear that he is fixated about sex, and it seems to have a very prominent role in his thinking. Could it be that at one time he wanted to be a Priest and was turned down? Maybe he still harbors a resentment over his wife living in sin with her Sugar Daddy before she married Santorum.

  • 2 votes
Reply#9 - Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:22 PM EST
James Essayist

Hmm . . . jealous is he, perhaps?

  • 1 vote
#9.1 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:26 AM EST
Tink-2285193

Could be jealousy, James. But, the way he appears to feel about women and that we are nothing but whores, sluts and murderers, it is hard for him when his own wife lived in sin with another man before him so he can't very well hold her up as a Saint. And who knows, she may even have taken birth control pills while with the her first love, or even had a abortion. From the story about his wife's line-in relationship with her Sugar Daddy, I kind of got the impression that the other guy really didn't want to get married, so maybe she pocked Santorum because he asked he to marry him.

But, his obvious hatred for women is truly manic, and gets worse every day.

  • 1 vote
#9.2 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:10 PM EST
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j. johnson-3157491

morning guys it is very possible he is harboring some sort of phobia 7 children is enough to turn him off to sex plus they don't want to give up the condom's, he is able to buy out of state so as not to get the fickle finger of fate to be pointed at him. or and probably more correct he's preachin' to the base choir. be strong my friends God Bless

  • 2 votes
Reply#10 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:14 AM EST
Tink-2285193

Oh I have no doubt that he is preaching to the base, and I mean that as in base base, as it seems that that is what the base wants from their candidates. Totally grotesque insanity, and they are more than happy to give them all they want, and then some.

  • 1 vote
#10.1 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:13 PM EST
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