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Santorum Backer: In His Day Used Aspirin Between Their Knees for Birth Control
Yahoo News ^ | Liz Goodwin

Posted on 02/16/2012 3:06:57 PM PST by AnTiw1

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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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.
1 posted on 02/16/2012 3:07:02 PM PST by AnTiw1
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To: AnTiw1
In the end, it all comes down to personal responsibility, doesn't it? Morally and financially, you make your choices, and the consequences follow.

Until government gets in the way and introduces a lot of unintended consequences.

2 posted on 02/16/2012 3:09:25 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (I am pro-Jesus, anti-abortion, pro-limited government, anti-GOP.)
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Well THAT locks in the female vote. NOT!


3 posted on 02/16/2012 3:09:33 PM PST by conservaterian (Sarah/DeMint '12-XXX= Now what? Cain?XX Guess not. I GIVE UP)
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To: AnTiw1

I saw that. I was speechless. My husband would tell you that does not happen often.


4 posted on 02/16/2012 3:11:17 PM PST by DallasSun (Courage~Fear that has said its prayers.)
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Well THAT locks in the female vote. NOT!

Right.

'Cause wimmins are ALL just a bunch of skanky sluts in heat with no self control.

You an' me, baby ... we're nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do it on the Discovery Channel ....

5 posted on 02/16/2012 3:12:52 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: AnTiw1

Actually, there is a Pope-approved contraceptive. It’s a 200 pound 2 meters in diameter pill that the wife puts against the door before going to bed so that the husband couldn’t enter her bedroom.


6 posted on 02/16/2012 3:13:24 PM PST by Mi-kha-el ((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
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To: AnTiw1

It’s pretty clear the left is going to use the issue of contraceptives as a distraction from the depression this election and Steponallofus was in on the plan from the beginning.


7 posted on 02/16/2012 3:13:48 PM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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And you have no ideal how long that old statement has been around. My mom had one, she said a girl that runs through the brier patch never knew what brier stuck her.


8 posted on 02/16/2012 3:16:10 PM PST by org.whodat (Sorry bill, I should never have made all those jokes about you and Lewinsky, have fun.)
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To: conservaterian

I thought it was funny. Im a woman.


9 posted on 02/16/2012 3:16:41 PM PST by GoCards (I am a Hobbit)
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During the Great Depression the birth rate plummeted and there were no birth control pills or legal abortions. How did that happen?


10 posted on 02/16/2012 3:19:17 PM PST by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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‘Cause wimmins are ALL just a bunch of skanky sluts in heat with no self control.
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Because only “skanky sluts in heat” use birth control.


11 posted on 02/16/2012 3:19:30 PM PST by elvis-lives
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To: GoCards

I heard that old saw back when I was young—only I heard that only St. Joseph Aspirins worked.........


12 posted on 02/16/2012 3:19:43 PM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: AnTiw1

As a young man, I found that a little booze can dissolve an aspirin.


13 posted on 02/16/2012 3:21:56 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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What the hell is strange about it? Its an old joke that anyone over 40 has probably heard more than a few times.


14 posted on 02/16/2012 3:24:28 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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I heard that old saw back when I was young—only I heard that only St. Joseph Aspirins worked.........

Yeah, it's a funny joke when you're a 12-year old boy and grandpa tells it. During a serious Presidential election when we need every vote we can get, not so much.

Well, we're about to see Santorum implode. We all knew it was coming. It was fun while it lasted.

15 posted on 02/16/2012 3:24:28 PM PST by Drew68
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To: org.whodat

That one I have never heard, but I’ll definitely remember it!


16 posted on 02/16/2012 3:24:55 PM PST by AnTiw1
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To: AnTiw1

I guess he was telling Andrea Mitchell to stick an aspirin between her knees.


17 posted on 02/16/2012 3:30:27 PM PST by tobyhill
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“I will leave you with the following suggestion: the only way that an aspirin can prevent pregnancy is for a woman to carefully place it between her knees and HOLD it there (by keeping her knees and therefore her legs) closed.”

http://contraception.about.com/b/2010/05/20/myth-busters-aspirin-as-a-birth-control-method.htm

From 5/20/2010


18 posted on 02/16/2012 3:34:01 PM PST by tobyhill
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Aspirin between the knees? WTF?


19 posted on 02/16/2012 3:35:48 PM PST by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Future Meteorologist.)
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Keep your legs together?


20 posted on 02/16/2012 3:36:44 PM PST by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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