"Back in my days, they acclimated Bayer aspirin for contraceptives," Friess said on MSNBC on Thursday, adding: "The gals put it amid their knees, and it wasn't that costly."
The association was that women captivated the aspirin amid their legs, which larboard them clumsy to accessible them.
In a account on his website, Friess said the "joke bombed," autograph that "many didn't admit it as a antic but anticipation it was my decree for today's bearing ascendancy practices."
"In fact, the alone absolute comments I got were from association who remembered it from 50 years back," he continued. "Birth ascendancy pills weren't yet available, so anybody laughed at the applesauce on how an aspirin could become a bearing ascendancy pill."
Though Friess' account is anachronous today, February 17, it appears to accept been accounting endure night.
"After alert to the articulation tonight, I can accept how I abashed humans with the way I worded the antic and their demography breach is actual understandable," he writes. "To all those who took my antic as avant-garde day access I acutely apologize and seek your forgiveness. My wife consistently tells me I charge new material--she accepted the antic but didn't like it anyway--so I will accumulate that old one in the accomplished area it belongs."
Appearing Friday on "CBS This Morning," Santorum alleged Friess' antic "stupid," but added that he's "not responsible" for comments by supporters.
"I'm not amenable for any animadversion that anybody who supports me makes and my almanac stands for itself," he said.
Santorum said the animadversion does not reflect his almanac on contraception and said questions about Friess'
comments reflect "gotcha backroom that you get from the media."
In his accounting apology, Friess' went on to address that Santourm "publicly declared he would not ban contraception; he has said if he were a affiliate of a accompaniment assembly which alien such a bill, he would vote adjoin it; and he has incurred the acrimony of his added bourgeois accompany for voting to armamentarium contraception to action AIDS in Africa."
Santorum has been criticized this anniversary for comments suggesting he opposes contraception, including a 2006 account that he is "not a accepter in bearing control."
"I anticipate it's adverse to women; I anticipate it's adverse to society," Santorum said. In a altered account - this one from October - he said contraception is "not okay" and vowed to "get rid of any abstraction that you accept to accept aborticide advantage or contraceptive coverage."
In an account on Fox News endure night, Santorum addressed his own angle on contraception, adage he did not anticipate it should be a government issue.
"Not everything...that I disagree with about should the government be complex in," he told Fox's Greta Van Susteren. "It's something that humans accept a appropriate to do in this country. And it absolutely will be safe to do so beneath the Santorum presidency."
Friess wrote in his acknowledgment agenda that women "appreciate [Santorum's] bright attitude on contraception which they favor."
"His able claimed aesthetics on the accountable are acclaimed and he has never attempted to about-face his claimed alternative into accessible action clashing the angle President Obama has taken in banishment Catholic institutions to embrace his apple view," wrote Friess.
According to Federal Election Commission filings, Friess gave the Red, White and Blue Fund, a pro-Santorum cool PAC, $331,000 in 2011. The cool PAC aloft $764,000 overall. His 2012 abutment for Santorum is not yet known.
"To those who acclaimed my comments and remembered the joke, acknowledgment for your encouragement," Friess assured his apology. "To those who anticipation I was atrociously auspicious that as a decree for today, I attentive ask your forgiveness."
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