Vanity Fair: Santorum Good for Chastity-Belt Sales? Manufacturer Says, “We’ve Had a Boost”
The political climate took a Victorian turn over the last month, thanks to the debate over President Obama’s birth-control mandate for health-insurance policies, which has morphed into a debate about birth control, period. Last week, a wealthy backer of Rick Santorum’s fondly reminisced about the days when “gals” practiced contraception by holding Bayer aspirin “between their knees.” (Did Bayer appreciate the product placement?) Santorum himself is on the record as having said, “One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country. It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.” Santorum—who recent polls say is the leading presidential candidate of a major American political party, a good 12 years into the 21st century—has grudgingly conceded he wouldn’t actually outlaw contraception, but a half-dozen or so states are considering “personhood” amendments or ballot initiatives, which would effectively ban forms of birth control that have been widely used for decades.
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/02/birth-control-debate-santorum-obama-chastity-belt
