A woman who claims to have had a romantic relationship with former rugby player and current anti-abortion GOP senator Herschel Walker has claimed he pressured her to terminate her pregnancy in 1993, accusing the U.S. lawmaker of being a «hypocrite.»
In declarations at a press conference with her lawyer, the woman — who did not want to reveal her identity — has assured that Walker has publicly made the decision to be «pro-life» when years ago he pressured her to have an abortion, according to CNN.
Specifically, the ex-spouse of the Republican senator has asserted that Walker «is a hypocrite and is not fit to be a U.S. senator,» adding that there is no need for people in the Senate «who profess one thing and do another».
«Herschel Walker says he is against women having abortions, but he pressured me to have one,» the woman said, in statements picked up by the aforementioned network.
The two allegedly maintained a secret relationship from 1987 to 1993 while Walker was married to his first wife. When the woman accusing the senator became pregnant, Walker took her to a pregnancy termination clinic and paid for the procedure after she backed out of an initial attempt.
«I went to a clinic in Dallas, but I just couldn’t go through with it,» she has detailed. «I left the clinic in tears. When I told Herschel what had happened, he was upset and said he was going to come back with me to the clinic the next day for an abortion,» she has added.
The statement of this sentimental partner of Walker’s is not, however, the only one in which the senator is accused of having forced someone to terminate her pregnancy.
As reported in early October by the newspaper ‘The Daily Beast’, another unidentified woman said that after she and Walker conceived a child while they were together in 2009, he urged her to have an abortion saying that «it was not his time» to be a father.
For that reason, the senator’s ex-partner underwent the termination procedure, which Walker himself paid for.
Asked if Walker ever expressed regret for the decision, the woman said that he had never expressed regret.
Still, the complainant claimed that she had confessed after seeing Walker’s campaign and corroborating his hard line against abortion. «I can’t take the hypocrisy anymore. We all deserve better,» she told the newspaper.
