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bluestateguy

(44,173 posts) Fri Jan 11, 2013, 02:45 PM Jan 2013

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Phil Gingrey agrees with Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock

I would like to know what the plan is for his electoral defeat by a Democrat in 2014. What Democrat will run against him and beat him? Optimism only, please.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/01/phil-gingrey-todd-akin-was-right.php?ref=fpa

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Evan McMorris-Santoro January 11, 2013, 11:09 AM 18694

“Legitimate rape” is back. Just a couple months after former Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) famous use of the phrase helped contribute to a double-digit loss in the 2012 Missouri Senate race, a Republican congressman and medical doctor said at a breakfast Thursday that Akin was “partly right” when he said it.

Rep. Phil Gingrey, an ob-gyn and chairman of the GOP Doctors Caucus, explained to the audience at the Cobb Chamber of Commerce breakfast Thursday in Smyrna, Ga., that Akin wasn’t far off on the science when he said rape victims rarely get pregnant because their bodies have “ways of shutting that whole thing down.”

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Phil Gingrey agrees with Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock (Original Post) bluestateguy Jan 2013 OP

This fool is an ob-gyn! Glitterati Jan 2013 #1

You beat me to it. Skidmore Jan 2013 #2

Isn't it amazing who GA will give a medical license? Glitterati Jan 2013 #4

I can't believe an ob gyn would fall for this bullshit. Initech Jan 2013 #3

I can't believe an ob-gyn would say this out loud! Glitterati Jan 2013 #5

Glitterati

(3,182 posts)

1. This fool is an ob-gyn!

Reply to bluestateguy (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 02:47 PM

Jan 2013

Can you imagine being his patient?

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)

2. You beat me to it.

Reply to Glitterati (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 03:05 PM

Jan 2013

I was going to point that out.

Glitterati

(3,182 posts)

4. Isn't it amazing who GA will give a medical license?

Reply to Skidmore (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 03:08 PM

Jan 2013

And I say this with a sister in medical school in Georgia.

I'm sorry, but I can't imagine the horror I would feel if this man had been my doctor!

Initech

(100,081 posts)

3. I can't believe an ob gyn would fall for this bullshit.

Reply to bluestateguy (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 03:07 PM

Jan 2013

Time for him to lose his license!

Glitterati

(3,182 posts)

5. I can't believe an ob-gyn would say this out loud!

Reply to Initech (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 03:09 PM

Jan 2013

In public. In front of others.

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