Cuckoo Award

This week’s Cuckoo Award goes to an Arizona Republican that told women to keep their legs together!

Aspirin between the knees as birth control? Is this GOP leader dumb or merely insulting?

Opinion: Welcome to the 1950s. Senate Majority Leader Sonny Borrelli has a suggestion for women who want a state law guaranteeing access to contraception.

Arizona Republic

By Laurie Roberts

March 8, 2024

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?)

And it got even worst! He went on to say,

So, yeah, color me not so reassured by Borrelli’s assurance that a woman’s right to have children at a time of her choosing is not at risk by the far-right fringe that has taken over the Republican Party.

So this week’s Cuckoo Award goes thumbs down to Senate Majority Leader Sonny Borrelli.