Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) on Wednesday announced his intention to run for the Georgia Senate seat being vacated by Saxby Chambliss (R) in 2014.
“It’s time for Georgians to again send a tested, trusted conservative to the U.S. Senate who will work with Johnny Isakson, and with a sense of urgency, to reward the trust Georgians place in him with action and results, immediately,” he said in Augusta, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Gingrey, an ob-gyn and chairman of the GOP Doctors Caucus, explained in January that Todd Akin was “partly right” when he said rape victims rarely get pregnant because their bodies have “ways of shutting that whole thing down.”
“‘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,” Gingrey said. “I don’t find anything so horrible about that.”
