Opinion: Welcome to the 1950s. Senate Majority Leader Sonny Borrelli has a suggestion for women who want a law guaranteeing access to contra
Gov. Katie Hobbs on Thursday held a news conference, calling on the Arizona Legislature to pass a state law guaranteeing women the right to contraception.
Of course, the Republican-run Legislature isn’t about to pass a law guaranteeing that women can remain in control of their own bodies, and Hobbs knows it.
What she may not have known is that women, apparently, have an alternative to contraception.
Leave it to Senate Majority Leader Sonny Borrelli to mansplain our options.
“Like I said, Bayer Company invented aspirin,” he told Arizona Mirror’s Gloria Rebecca Gomez. “Put it between your knees.”
Borrelli didn’t indicate how that aspirin between the knees would help women with polycystic ovaries, endometriosis, premenstrual issues or even pregnancy. (Perhaps he ought to give the Kama Sutra a look?)
But the Lake Havasu City Republican went on to assure Gomez that there’s no plan afoot to deny women access to contraceptives.
“They’re creating a controversy that doesn’t exist because nobody’s opposing — nobody has any kind of plan to ban any contraceptives,” he said.
On the day after the Republican Party had a woman deliver its response to the State of Union speech from her kitchen …
In the weeks after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that an embryo in a freezer is a baby, briefly threatening access to invitro fertilization …
In the nearly two years since the constitutional right to an abortion was struck down …
You’ll have to excuse a fair number of women if we’re looking for more than Borrelli’s assurances that a plot won’t suddenly surface to tell us yet again what we can — or cannot — do with our bodies.
