NOW President: Friess, Santorum 'Should Clearly Apologize To The Women Of This Country'

[ProSense]

NOW President: Friess, Santorum 'Should Clearly Apologize To The Women Of This Country'

The president of NOW is calling on Rick Santorum backer Foster Friess to publicly apologize for his suggestion that women put aspirin between their knees as a birth control method.

In an interview with TPM Thursday, NOW President Terry O'Neill called on Santorum to "renounce" Friess' comments.

&quot Santorum) should clearly apologize to the women of this country," she said. "Mr. Friess should apologize, Mr. Santorum should to."

She called on Santorum to make a public recognition of "how deeply offensive" Friess' comments were.

But even if Santorum apologizes as she proscribes, O'Neill said the socially conservative former senator will have a long way to go before he can get in NOW's good graces. O'Neill called on Santorum to use the Friess moment to renounce his support for a personhood amendment and his "anti-birth control stance."

"That would rehabilitate him in the eyes of people in this country," she said.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/now-president-friess-santorum-should-clearly-apologize-to

Video of Friess' comment: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002318319

[niyad]

1. well, I, for one, will not be holding my breath--he is pandering to an audience, and it isn't us

[lunatica]

2. Santorum never has been and never will be in my good graces

[HockeyMom]

3. Nor mine as a former Catholic school girl

He and his views are precisely WHY I left the Catholic Church. They DEGRADE WOMEN. Even as a teenager, I could see that.

[saras]

4. It's easy to get pregnant with an aspirin between your knees, just awkward

There are dozens of workable positions, even for the extremely unfit or handicapped. What's the point? And does it HAVE to be aspirin, or will other pills magically prevent pregnancy also?

Personally I think a condom or diaphragm would work better. Maybe I'm missing something.