The girl who alleged this week that Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker urged her to get an abortion and paid for it in 2009 dropped one other bombshell Friday when she informed The New York Occasions that he pushed her to do the identical factor two years later.
The girl, an ex-girlfriend of Walker’s, says she rejected his request and had the kid. Walker, who has campaigned on an aggressive anti-abortion stance as he seeks one in every of Georgia’s Senate seats, has been a minimal presence of their now-10-year-old son’s life however has acknowledged him by way of occasional presents and baby assist funds, she stated.
“As a father, he’s executed nothing,” the girl, who spoke on the situation of anonymity to guard her son’s privateness, informed the Occasions. “He does precisely what the courts say, and that’s it. He needs to be held accountable, identical to the remainder of us. And when you’re going to run for workplace, you’ll want to personal your life.”
The Occasions says it confirmed, by way of custody data filed in New York household courtroom, that the previous couple had a toddler collectively. It additionally corroborated her account of the 2009 abortion she had at Walker’s urging, which she revealed to The Every day Beast on Monday, and interviewed a pal she confided in about Walker’s requests that she abort each pregnancies.
Walker’s marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to HuffPost’s request for touch upon Friday’s allegation, nor did it reply to repeated inquiries from the Occasions, the newspaper stated. However after the Every day Beast’s preliminary report, Walker and his representatives firmly denied ever urging anybody to have an abortion and known as his ex-girlfriend’s allegation a “flat-out lie.” Walker additionally claimed to do not know who the girl may presumably be.
Chatting with the Occasions, the girl stated she couldn’t deal any longer with Walker’s hypocrisy.
“The truth that I had a alternative — now he’s within the public attempting to say he desires to place a ban on abortion utterly,” she stated, including, “It appalled me.”
On the marketing campaign path, Walker, a former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL star, has claimed to be against abortion beneath all circumstances, even people who outcome from rape or incest or these wanted to avoid wasting the lifetime of the mom ― some of the excessive stances espoused by any Republican candidate.
His ex additionally criticized Walker for feedback he’s made all through his marketing campaign slamming absentee fathers. Walker, she informed the Occasions, has seen the son they’ve collectively “perhaps … thrice.”