Axios: “A second woman has alleged that Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee in Georgia’s Senate race, paid for her abortion.
The big picture: Walker has taken a strong anti-abortion stance in the hotly contested Senate race during this year’s midterm election cycle, and has denied both allegations against him.
Driving the news: The woman, who was identified by attorney Gloria Allred as “Jane Doe,” during a news conference Wednesday claimed Walker had “pressured” her into getting an abortion after she learned she was pregnant in April 1993.
- “I was devastated because I felt that I had been pressured into having an abortion.”
- The woman said she was motivated to come forward because she had seen Walker deny another woman’s allegations that he paid for her to have an abortion.
- “Particularly, I saw him state that the woman’s claims were not true because he never signed any cards using the letter ‘H,'” Doe said.
- “I knew that was not true because he had often signed letters to me using ‘H.'”
- She said she preferred to remain anonymous for “fear of reprisals” against herself, her family and her livelihood.
Details: Doe said she had begun an intimate relationship with Walker in the late ’80s in Dallas while he was playing football for the Cowboys.”