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Subscribe to RSSThe Santorum supporter comments on the culture wars over contraception use saying, "Back in my days, they [woman] used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives."
Foster Friess -- a prominent Santorum supporter and one of the chief benefactors of a pro-Santorum Super PAC -- today made a statement on contraception that's already raising plenty of eyebrows.
Friess told NBC's Andrea Mitchell on "Andrea Mitchell Reports":
This contraceptive thing, my gosh, it's so inexpensive. Back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly.
The obvious suggestion by Friess: that women should put an aspirin between their legs so they don’t open them.
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And here I thought the GOP candidates were the stars of the clown parade; turns out they were just the warm up act. I'm afraid to get up and go to the bathroom because I might miss something even funnier.
Clearly, if the access to birth control decreases, people will just stop having sex. That's how it works, right? Right?
*Crickets*
Watch conservatives scream MSNBC put the words in his mouth
@Jim - or just watch them scream on general principle.
Contraception? It's the Economy Stupid! 10's of millions either unemployed, underemployed or no longer looking. 6 million more on the Poverty rolls. Double digit increase of those on food stamps. $15.3 trillion dollar debt...........
Sorry but republiCON's last bastion of hope now seems contraception. Can't wait for abstention next
I hope we have a complete recovery and EVERYONE is happy and financially secure, immediately. Obama gets full credit too. What are YOU talking about?
The GOP tea partiers always yell about the invasiness of big government. Exactly what do they call these two laws - Virginia's big government is now in people bedrooms, living rooms, doctor's offices and trying to get up our (v) and butts.
Republicans always govern the opposite of what they say doing their campaign. Many Virginians didn't bother to vote (big mistake), as a result they will lose their birth control pills, their right to decide whether they want or need an abortion and all the liquor store are going to become privately owned. If the republicans prefer to have sex with same sex partners than they should say so and not hold the rest of the state hostage. This has become a slap down to the women regardless to their party association. One thing about women, we can go for a long time without sex. I wander how the men are going to accept this change.
Virginians this is how your tax dollars are being spent; against you and your rights. Well, I wander how the ex owner of BET is feeling about this move or is she to old to care? And the President have no authority over state law other than enacting a federal mandate to hold the law up for violating women civil rights. I don't know but we the people had better start paying attention to the GOP's and what they are doing and stop sleeping on their watch. Gee, no more drunken sex burges unless you are with the same sex.
I hate to say it but Obama is looking like the lesser of evil in this upcoming election. For the past 2 years I've been asking questions about the faith I was raised on, and I can say I don't understand the Bible or religion as a whole. Man lived with the dinosaurs millions of years ago and the most recent human ancestor that we have found had the brain capacity of a mouse. Yea, ok. Chief Santorum's comment was funny though, but inaccurate.
Here's a solution America - Castrate every one of these Taliban Sharia trotting goons. Problem solved. Women shall be free at last!!!!!
How in heck 2012 did methods of birth control become an issue in the process of electing candidates for president. I am a 51 year old man and I believe , from what I have heard, that my mom was taking some kind of birth control pills in her day. Rommney , unless he somehow implodes, and President Obama will be the candidates for the office. Their jobs are enormous and complicated more than any of us can believe. Do we really want this to be an issue? I hope Americans sure want more from the process.
To: Brianb-999431
It is also cute that that the religious right (That's you Brianb-999431) can not see the irony - Religions have ALWAYS striven to control and dictate what we think, what we believe, how we dress, what science is acceptable and what is not, even, how and why we have sex. It is essential that all Americans politicians maintain the separation between Church and State that was so wisely dictated by our Founding Fathers. To do otherwise is un-American. By the way - this article is about the comment Foster Friess made on the topic of contraceptives - not your obfuscatory diversion into your own personal interpretations influenced by your religious beliefs - be it Mennonite, Hindu, Mormon, Zoroastrian, Christian, Heavens Gate, Big Bobs corner Church of Gospel, Gas & Groceries, Shaker, Quaker, etc.
Leave it to the Religious Hyper-Right who are unable unable to think for themselves to mislead and condemn those who seek the truth based on fact and reality.
Now - Isn't it time you begin hearing a voice telling you to gather with others to speak in tongues while handling snakes - or some other surreal ritual - Off you go!
Another rich old white guy speaks about women's health. That's the GOP for ya.
It's "Class Warfare" against the "I Don't Wanna Get Pregnant No Matter What You Say Class"
Back in HIS day plenty of girls got pregnant. And if he really thinks that keeping your legs closed will prevent it, he must never have heard of the Kama Sutra.
Kama Sutra? Nope he hasn't... I knocked up his wife & she told me so
Cassandra - He's a devout catholic and knows only one position - the missionary position.
Maybe what we should do is staple his thang to the inside of his thigh. What a goddamned stupid freaking ass! I love how they always go back to subjugating women. After all it is a man's world, women just bring us into it! Sorry, but yet another Neo nazicon, the only cure for which is a single .22 at point blank range - from one ear to the other. The bullet would probably just pass through untouched!
And to Mr. Santorum? Bubba, if these are the folks that back you, then you too are scum. Peddle your @!$%# elsewhere! I am sure Communist China would even throw your horrid ass out!
Actually, communist china forces you to one child. Girls are aborted or worse abandoned and left to starve
The best contraception IS abstinence. How often do I read posts here about women not breeding and keeping their legs together?
Tell that to Palin's daughter. Worked for her.
The liberal idiots on these boards simply do not get it.
Let me spell it out for you simple minded rat brains.
It is LEGAL to have an abortion in this country.....
Republicans SIMPLY do not want their TAX DOLLARS funding it. Can you not get that through your stupid little heads.
Ouch - let me spell it out for you. Federal tax dollars do not fund abortions. Write that one hundred times on your forehead.
Ouch my balls,,, Let me spell this out for you..... Conservative leadership cares more about continuing corruption in Congress more than any thing
Remember the efforts to stop congressmen from "Insider Trading"?
Republicans watered it down so it does NOTHING
House Republican leaders eliminated a provision of the Senate-passed bill that would, for the first time, regulate firms that collect “political intelligence” for hedge funds, private equity funds and other investors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/us/politics/house-passes-bill-banning-insider-trading-by-members-of-congress.html?ref=politics
Screw you Pro-Lifers ---- You are not "Honorable Americans"
Abnormal,
Really? PP has received federal dollars since 1970.
Keep drinking that Kool Aid.
Ouch - you just kill me. PP does not use federal funds for abortions. If you are going to continue to waste time on the blog, spend some time researching the subject rather than just spouting out what you are told to believe. Lemming.
Jim,
What is your effing point and how does it relate to this discussion.
Ouch - makes more sense than your blathering.
Abnormal...
Really....you can prove that right? I love that line from you idiot, kool aid drinking liberals.
That is FUNNY!!!!!
Ouch - I don't need to prove anything. You would not believe the facts if they struck you in your balls. Oh sorry, you've been castrated.
Try this on for size "ouch", we live in a society with multiple ethnicities, religions (including those like myself-athiests), and social classes. Don't try to push your moral religious crap down our throats. There are many instances where abortions are necessary. Examples ,for your narrow mind, are where incest, rape and a life threatening issue for the woman is involved. Roe V. Wade has stood the test of time. Get off your religious soapbox and face the fact that we are not ALL headbowing ,"praise the lord", 700 club robots. Some of us think on our own without having a minister-priest-rabbi-iman telling us what to do (after we make that tax free donation on a weekly basis).
I gave you FACTS Ouch & you call it "kool aid"? ---- Typically conservative & exactly why they will lose in November
Someone who constantly says "Ouch my balls" is enough reason to get an abortion
Ouch - In an attempt educate you about the subject, a 15 second fact check reveals the following:
Planned Parenthood’s 2008-2009 annual report states that it received $363.2 million in "Government Grants and Contracts." (See page 29.) That’s about one-third of its total revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009.
However, not all of that money is from the federal government. Planned Parenthood’s government funding comes from two sources: the Title X Family Planning Program and Medicaid. About $70 million is Title X funding, Planned Parenthood spokesman Tait Sye told us. The rest — about $293 million — is Medicaid funding, which includes both federal and state money.
But Planned Parenthood cannot use the money it receives from the federal government for abortions anyway. According to the Department of Health and Human Service’s website, "by law, Title X funds may not be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning." Medicaid funding is restricted by the Hyde Amendment to only abortion cases involving rape, incest or endangerment to the life of the mother. Some states use their own funds under Medicaid to go beyond that. Seventeen states and, until recently, the District of Columbia pay for "medically necessary" abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute. The federal budget deal now bans Washington, D.C., from using its funds to pay for abortions.
So, OMB, it's okay to withhold relief from various things until some federally funded superstition organization gets your soul? You're yapping out of both sides of your yap.
Jim - I just figured out "ouch my balls." He is constantly running around in a baboon like fashion and his balls are dragging on the ground. Not to suggest he has big balls, quite the contrair, low ground clearance.
Mr. Ouch:
(1) of curiosity, is the GOP registered as a political party or as a religion? I daresay even in their dwindling numbers (they are rushing to declare independent status now) you could find in the GOP a good number at odds with you on this issue.
(2) Planned Parentlhood spends 3% of their budget on abortions, the rest on avoiding pregnancies in the first place. We might debate if they would agree with us that abortions are a choice of evils that should be avoided if possible. I cannot say that they use no Federal dollars in this, all money is green to me.
(3) I understood all along the issue is who is forced to PAY for something they do not believe in, in part because as a group health underwriter for many years I set premium rates for employer groups. And you know what? In terms of money, contraception saves a thousand-fold what it costs to hand it out. Even just to insurance companies, and purely as dollars, it is an ounce of prevention to many pounds of cure.
First,
I'm atheist. I vote republican because of my wallet.
Second, my moniker is a slap against you dumbphuck liberals. Your just too stupid to realize it.
Jim,
Once again, what does your BS have to do with this discussion.
Abnormal,
You copied from wikipedia as a source. Are you effing kidding me?
William,
Huh?
John,
3% doesn't seem like allot. However it adds up to 300,000 last year.
Friess is a blithering idiot to make that statement in 2012. It was a joke back in the 60's. However, he makes sense if he is a main backer of Santorum. Rick is a blithering idiot because of his 1950's attitude about women. Why not use the old standby from way back when. "Keep the women pregnant and barefoot". What a crock of sh**. These conservative idiots need to be taken to the woodshed. I don't see how anyone could possibly vote for Rick with the archaic attitudes that he has about women, gays and who knows what other people he feels are BENEATH him. Clowns to the left of me - jokers to the right......
Rick Santorum: the greatest gift Obama could ever ask for. If Santorum's the GOP candidate, no need for Barack to even waste money campaigning
Washington (CNN) -- A pair of female Democratic lawmakers had a simple question Thursday about a controversial hearing on Capitol Hill.
"What I want to know is: Where are the women?" Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, said as she began her remarks at the top of hearing titled "Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?"
Directing her question at Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Maloney was referring to the fact that the first panel of five witnesses at the hearing did not include a woman, even though the discussion touched on the recent controversy over an Obama administration regulation requiring health insurance coverage for contraception.
"When I look at this panel, I don't see one single woman representing the tens of millions of women across the country who want and need insurance coverage for basic, preventative health care services, including family planning," Maloney continued. Then she repeated: "Where are the women?"
The women were in the back room, barefoot, making coffee and sandwiches for the panel members.
Apparently Republicans are so fixated on turning back the clock that they forgot that women have the right to vote.
Didn't you see the latest republican talking point? That's the next women's right to be attacked.
Mandating coverage is all about freedom.
I cannot believe how women can be members of the Republican Party...
Gender doesn't matter if your IQ is below 50
The Republicans support the imposition of zealots' values on all Americans. That is the tragedy of the Republican Party that has cast aside its moderate wing.
One of the writers put the square peg in the square hole when she said that if men could get pregnant, everything would be different and they would be fighting for the right to control their bodies. Also another remarked the men had no objection to viagra being paid for by their health insurance coverage. Double standard???So long as men control the political system, the religious organizations, the USDA, FDA, Big Pharma, ultinational corporations, banks, etc., they will never make any effort to see things from any perspective but their own. Progressive women can see this disparity. Unfortunately conservative women watch Fox and "submit" to their husbands, wishing to see nothing else.
Regarding the new Virginia law (and any other ultrasound requiring law:) It takes two to make a baby so if a woman has to submit to a probe being shoved up her vagina before she can get a legal medical procedure, I think the man who contributed the sperm should have something shoved up his body orifice as well. Lets see how fast these men change their tune.
As far as Mr. Freiss goes - instead of women using aspirin, how about you keep your pants zipped old man.
Now that Santorum the religious fascist beat down Romney, let's hear him explain who he was employed by after he got voted out of Congress
All the corporations who lobbied him when he was in office!
These clowns were all worked up about the imposition of Sharia law. Now they want Catholic church rules to substitute for civil law.