Georgia Rep. Paul Braun was embarrassment enough, with his infamous declaration that evolution and the Big Bang theory "are lies straight from the pits of hell." This man is a graduate of our state medical school and a member of the House Science Committee.
Tonight, viewers were reminded of his statement by Cynthia Tucker and Al Sharpton on MSNBC when talking about the latest embarrassment to the state by another of our congressmen.
This time it was Phil Gingrey who, without any apparent reason, ressurected Todd Akins' claim that women aren't likely to get pregnant as the result of "legitimate" rape because their bodies "have a way of shutting it down." Gingrey gratuitously brought it up and said that Akins was partly right. And, to add insult to the embarrassment, Gingrey added: "I'm an ob-gyn doctor, so I know what I'm talking about."
Georgia has three doctor-congressmen -- Tom Price is the other. All are ultra-conservative, and these two are just plain nuts. Not only are they political embarrassments, but they bring shame to the medical profession as well.
Ralph
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