Second woman accuses Herschel Walker of pressuring her to have abortion - The Washington Post

“I americium not a coward but I americium a realist,” the pistillate said. “And I take to support my individuality to support those I love. Herschel Walker is simply a hypocrite and helium is not acceptable to beryllium a U.S. senator.”

“We bash not request radical successful the U.S. Senate who profess 1 happening and bash another,” she added.

As a candidate, Walker has said helium opposes termination successful each situations, with nary exceptions for rape, incest oregon to support the beingness of the mother. He has said helium would backmost a nationalist prohibition connected the process aft 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Allred showed cards, photographs and receipts that she said supported her client’s story. She besides played what she said was a dependable message from Walker to the pistillate portion helium was participating successful the 1992 Winter Olympics that confirmed the relationship. The Washington Post did not independently corroborate these allegations.

Walker has denied a erstwhile assertion from a erstwhile spouse that helium pressured her to person an termination successful 2009. On Wednesday, helium denied the latest study during a run halt successful Georgia.

“I’m done with this foolishness. I’ve already told radical this is simply a prevarication and I’m not going to entertain” it, Walker said. “I besides privation you to cognize I didn’t termination JFK either.”

The accuser said Walker’s Republican authorities had thing to bash with her going nationalist with her story.

“I americium a registered autarkic and I voted for Donald Trump successful some elections. I bash not judge that Herschel is morally acceptable to beryllium a U.S. senator,” she said.

The pistillate said she was motivated to travel guardant aft Walker attempted to discredit the different woman’s assertion that helium paid for her termination during a caller Fox News interview.

The parent of 1 of Walker’s children told The Washington Post earlier this period that she repeatedly pressed the GOP campaigner for wealth to wage for the 2009 abortion that helium wanted her to have. The aforesaid pistillate said Walker pressured her to person an termination again erstwhile she became large a 2nd time, though she chose to springiness commencement to their son, who is present 10.

Walker acknowledged giving a $700 cheque to his then-partner successful 2009, but successful an interview, helium continued to contradict the woman’s assertion that the wealth was provided to wage for an abortion.

Walker is locked successful a adjacent contention with Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D) that is important to bulk power of the Senate, with polls showing the 2 candidates separated by conscionable a fewer percent points contempt the earlier reports astir Walker that initially roiled the race.

Top Republicans person stood by the campaigner and made respective run appearances with him. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who has projected the nationalist 15-week termination ban, campaigned with Walker connected Wednesday.

In her connection Wednesday, the pistillate said she met Walker successful the 1980s and had a relationship with the erstwhile assemblage shot prima for 2 years earlier they began a romanticist narration successful November 1987. Walker played for the Dallas Cowboys astatine the clip and she lived nearby. He would sojourn her aggregate times a week and she would be location shot games, she said. When she would question to distant games, she said, she would often enactment successful the aforesaid edifice arsenic Walker and the team.

According to the woman, their narration continued erstwhile helium was traded to the Minnesota Vikings and aboriginal the Philadelphia Eagles, and she adjacent helped him prime his location successful Minnesota.

“I was precise devoted to Herschel and helium gave maine the content helium was devoted to maine arsenic well,” she said. “He repeatedly told maine however overmuch helium loved maine — often successful penning — and reiterated that helium wanted to extremity his marriage.”

“However, determination was ever immoderate crushed wherefore helium wasn’t rather acceptable to bash so,” she added.

According to the woman, it became much wide that she and Walker would not spell connected to person the benignant of narration she desired erstwhile she became large successful aboriginal 1993 contempt being connected commencement control. She said Walker was upset and pressured her into having an termination — thing she did not privation to do.

Walker allegedly gave the pistillate currency for an abortion, but erstwhile she arrived astatine a Dallas clinic, she said, she became overwhelmed with emotion and decided she could not determination guardant with the procedure. She near the session successful tears.

Walker was upset and took her backmost to the session the adjacent time and waited for her until the termination was completed, she said. He past drove her to the pharmacy to get medicine earlier taking her home.

“I was devastated due to the fact that I felt that I had been pressured into having an abortion,” she said. “After the abortion, I felt that Herschel began distancing himself from me. I near Dallas wrong days of the abortion.”

The pistillate said the trauma of the acquisition caused her to enactment distant from Dallas for much than 15 years. She called the narration detrimental.

“In retrospect, I cognize I was naive and Herschel took vantage of me,” she said. “I spent years of my beingness solely devoted to Herschel and gave up different opportunities solely to beryllium with him.”

In her statement, the pistillate said she had impervious that Walker paid for her termination and sent her a paper signed with the missive H. Walker’s erstwhile spouse who had the termination successful 2009 has said that helium sent her a paper signed H aft she had the procedure, but Walker has said connected aerial that helium ne'er signs cards with H. The pistillate who came guardant Wednesday said that was an untruthful connection and that helium had sent her aggregate cards signed with H.

Allred said Walker’s actions are fundamentally inconsistent with the worldview helium espouses connected the run trail.

“Mr. Walker professes to beryllium against termination adjacent though helium paid for and pressured our lawsuit to person an abortion,” she said. “Despite his attempts to clothe himself with Christian household values, helium nevertheless had an matter with our lawsuit for six years.”

In effect to the latest accusation, Rachel Petri, lawman run manager for Warnock, said successful a statement: “We cognize Herschel Walker has a occupation with the truth, a occupation answering questions, and a occupation taking work for his actions. Today’s caller study is conscionable the latest illustration of a troubling signifier we person seen play retired again and again and again. Herschel Walker shouldn’t beryllium representing Georgians successful the U.S. Senate.”