Rep. Phil Gingrey, MD.

No, seriously, this guy's a doctor.

Of course not. But too bad. Because here comes Rep. Phil Gingrey of Georgia to pick up the slack. And Gingrey is a doctor—an OB/GYN, no less—and co-chair of the GOP Doctors Caucus. (Go ahead and take a beat to marvel that such a thing exists.)

In a jaw-dropping appearance at the Smyrna Area Council of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce breakfast, Gingrey explained what Akin really meant, how he wasn't really wrong, and how as a doctor, Gingrey has given some epic advice to women about how pregnancy works:



“And in Missouri, Todd Akin … was asked by a local news source about rape and he said, ‘Look, in a legitimate rape situation’ — and what he meant by legitimate rape was just look, someone can say I was raped: a scared-to-death 15-year-old that becomes impregnated by her boyfriend and then has to tell her parents, that’s pretty tough and might on some occasion say, ‘Hey, I was raped.’ That’s what he meant when he said legitimate rape versus non-legitimate rape. I don’t find anything so horrible about that.

But wait. There's more:



But then [Akin] went on and said that in a situation of rape, of a legitimate rape, a woman’s body has a way of shutting down so the pregnancy would not occur. He’s partly right on that.

Gingrey pointed out that he had been an OB-GYN since 1975. “And I’ve delivered lots of babies, and I know about these things. It is true.

We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, ‘Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don’t be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate.’ So he was partially right wasn’t he?

Sure, that sounds insane. But don't argue with Rep. Dr. Phil. He's a doctor, after all. So just relax. And have a glass of wine.