Senate candidate Herschel Walker, the “anti-abortion” Republican accused of paying women to have abortions

Republican candidate for Senate USA Herschel Walker, a former American football star, was accused by two women of having paid them to have an abortion. The irony is that the Conservative, who is backed by donald trumpmakes his opposition to abortion one of the key points in his fight for a Senate seat for the state of Georgia in the elections.

The Senate race Walker, 60, was rocked earlier this month by allegations that he paid for a girlfriend of his to terminate her pregnancy in 2009, according to The Daily Beast website. The former athlete denied the news and said it was a “lie”.

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The woman, who asked not to be identified, told The Beast that she encouraged her to terminate the pregnancy because she felt it was not her right time to have a child. Although she shared that sentiment, she said she was unaware that the man had fathered a child with another woman that same year.

“I never asked anyone to have an abortion. I never paid for an abortion, it’s a lie,” he told Fox News.

Asked about the alleged payments, Walker He said he sends “money to a lot of people.”

Walkerwho has backed a national ban on abortion at 15 weeks and makes no exceptions in cases of rape, incest and when the mother’s life is at risk, said he will sue The Beast for defamation.

A running back for several NFL teams, including the Dallas Cowboys, during a 12-year NFL career, he was encouraged to suggest that the Democrats had made it up to hurt him.

According to the election analysis newsletter The Cook Political Report, the race between Walker and Raphael Warnock, the Democratic senator from Georgia, is a major one for Republicans to regain control of the Senate on November 8.

A group of Georgia labor and labor leaders speak out against Republican US Senate candidate Herschel Walker. (EFE/EPA/ERIK S. LESSER) (ERIK S. LESSER/)

Walkerwho already faces domestic violence scandals in the past, was forced to admit during the campaign that he had three children out of wedlock.

“You’re not a ‘family man,'” his 23-year-old son Christian, a social media influencer, told him.

Former President Trump, seeing the posts, decided to speak out in a statement: “Herschel Walker is being smeared and smeared by the fake news media and obviously by the Democrats.”

New case

However, the anti-abortion republican was accused this Wednesday by a second woman of having paid for an interruption of pregnancy and pressuring her harshly. The complainant now fears for her safety.

“Herschel-Walker he is a hypocrite and has no qualifications to be a United States senator,” said the woman, who did not reveal her identity, in a press videoconference organized by her lawyer, Gloria Allred, famous for representing women in cases of gender-based violence. .

Identified as Jane Doe, the equivalent in the United States to “so-and-so,” the woman said she began a relationship in November 1987 with Walkerwhen the former athlete was married and played for the Dallas Cowboys.

“In April 1993 I found out I was pregnant, I went into shock, I didn’t know what to do,” she said. “After discussing the pregnancy with Herschel several times, she urged me to have an abortion and gave me the money for it,” she concluded.

The woman who claims to be another ex-lover of Walker’s said that, at his request, she went to a clinic in Dallas after discovering her pregnancy, but backed down. “I could not do it”.

“When I told Herschel what had happened, he got upset and said he would come back to me to get an abortion. He took me to the clinic the next day and waited in the parking lot for hours until I came out. Then he took me to buy medicine and home, ”said Jane Doe.

Her voice breaking, the woman called the experience “devastating.” “I felt that I had been pressured into having an abortion.”

The relationship, he said, cooled down from the procedure by decision of the former athlete turned politician.

Allred showed letters signed with the letter “H” and a hotel receipt as evidence of the relationship between his client and today’s candidate. He claimed to have more in her possession, but stated that the woman would not come out of anonymity nor would it be revealed how much she paid for the abortion.

The only personal detail revealed about “so-and-so” is that she is a Trump voter, an indication that her motivation was not political.

The Senate race in Georgia, in which Walker faces Democrat Raphael Warnock, it is one of the most disputed in the country and according to the polls, it is still close.

Source: Elcomercio