{"id":103006,"date":"2022-10-10T17:16:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T17:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=103006"},"modified":"2022-10-10T17:16:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T17:16:33","slug":"herschel-walker-reportedly-ended-relationship-over-partners-refusal-to-get-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=103006","title":{"rendered":"Herschel Walker Reportedly Ended Relationship Over Partner&#8217;s Refusal to Get Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/07\/us\/politics\/herschel-walker-abortion.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;A woman who has said Herschel Walker, the Republican Senate nominee in Georgia, paid for her abortion in 2009 told The New York Times that he urged her to terminate a second pregnancy two years later. They ended their relationship after she refused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a series of interviews, the woman said Mr. Walker had barely been involved in their now 10-year-old son\u2019s life, offering little more than court-ordered child support and occasional gifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woman disclosed the new details about her relationship with Mr. Walker, who has anchored his campaign on an appeal to social conservatives as an unwavering opponent of abortion even in cases of rape and incest, after the former football star publicly denied that he knew her. He called her \u201csome alleged woman\u201d in a radio interview on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Times is withholding the name of the woman, who insisted on anonymity to protect her son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the interviews, she described the frustration of watching&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/04\/us\/politics\/herschel-walker-abortion-allegation-georgia-senate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republicans rally around Mr. Walker<\/a>, dismiss her account and bathe him in prayer and praise, calling him a good man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said she wanted Georgia voters to know what kind of man Mr. Walker was to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs a father, he\u2019s done nothing. He does exactly what the courts say, and that\u2019s it,\u201d she said. \u201cHe has to be held responsible, just like the rest of us. And if you\u2019re going to run for office, you need to own your life.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;A woman who has said Herschel Walker, the Republican Senate nominee in Georgia, paid for her abortion in 2009 told The New York Times that he urged her to terminate a second pregnancy two years later. They ended their relationship after she refused. In a series of interviews, the woman said Mr. Walker&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103007,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103006\/revisions\/103007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}