MADRID, 27 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
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 US lawmaker of “hypocrisy”.
Speaking at a press conference in the company of her lawyer, the woman – who did not want to reveal her identity – has assured that Walker has publicly made the decision to be “in favor of life” when years ago he pressured her to to abort, as reported by CNN.
Specifically, the former sentimental partner of the Republican senator has asserted that Walker “is a hypocrite and is not fit to be a United States senator”, adding that people in the Senate “who profess one thing and do another” are not needed.
“Herschel Walker says he is against women having abortions, but he pressured me to have one,” the woman said, in statements collected by the aforementioned chain.
Both would have 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 it on an initial attempt.
“I went to a clinic in Dallas, but I just couldn’t go through with it,” he said. “I left the clinic crying. When I told Herschel what had happened, he got upset and said that he was going to come back to the clinic with me the next day to have an abortion,” she added.
The declaration of this sentimental partner of Walker is not, however, the only one in which the senator is accused of having forced someone to interrupt her pregnancy.
As reported in early October by the newspaper ‘The Daily Beast’, another unidentified woman assured that after she and Walker conceived a child while they were together in 2009, he urged her to have an abortion, assuring that “it was not her time” to be dad.
For this reason, the senator’s ex-partner underwent the pregnancy termination procedure that Walker himself paid for.
Asked if Walker ever expressed regret for the decision, the woman said he had never expressed regret.
However, the complainant assured that she had confessed after seeing Walker’s campaign and corroborating his hard line against abortion. “I can no longer deal with hypocrisy. We all deserve better,” she asserted before the aforementioned newspaper.
