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Rick Santorum backer suggests Bayer aspirin as a birth control method for women

Foster Friess caught MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell off-guard with colorful comment

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/9069434/US-elections-2012-Rick-Santorums-triple-win-gives-yet-another-twist-in-Republican-race.html

A chief backer of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum stunned viewers when he made an off-the-wall comment about birth control Thursday.

Foster Friess, the primary supporter of a pro-Santorum super political action committee, suggested on MSNBC that women use Bayer aspirin as a contraceptive.

“This contraceptive thing, my gosh, it’s so expensive,” he told host Andrea Mitchell.

“Back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly.”

Friess’ inference that women can place a pill between their legs to keep from spreading them understandably sent some heads spinning.

Even Mitchell was visibly taken aback, saying she needed to catch her breath after the comment.

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