{"id":103902,"date":"2022-10-31T14:22:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T14:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=103902"},"modified":"2022-10-31T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T14:22:30","slug":"a-second-woman-alleges-herschel-walker-paid-for-her-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=103902","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A second woman alleges Herschel Walker paid for her abortion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/10\/26\/herschel-walker-abortion-claim-second-woman\" target=\"_blank\">Axios<\/a>: &#8220;A second woman has alleged that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/10\/17\/herschel-walker-georgia-senate-abortion-allegation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Herschel Walker<\/a>, the Republican nominee in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/politics-policy\/midterm-elections-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia&#8217;s Senate race<\/a>, paid for her abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The big picture:&nbsp;<\/strong>Walker has taken a strong anti-abortion&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/atlanta\/2022\/06\/28\/georgia-2022-candidates-abortion-stance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stance<\/a>&nbsp;in the hotly contested Senate race during this year&#8217;s midterm election cycle, and has denied both allegations against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Driving the news:&nbsp;<\/strong>The woman, who was identified by attorney Gloria Allred as &#8220;Jane Doe,&#8221; during a news conference Wednesday claimed Walker had &#8220;pressured&#8221; her into getting an abortion after she learned she was pregnant in April 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;I was devastated because I felt that I had been pressured into having an abortion.&#8221;<\/li><li>The woman said she was motivated to come forward because she had seen Walker deny&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/10\/17\/herschel-walker-georgia-senate-abortion-allegation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another woman&#8217;s allegations<\/a>&nbsp;that he paid for her to have an abortion.<\/li><li>&#8220;Particularly, I saw him state that the woman&#8217;s claims were not true because he never signed any cards using the letter &#8216;H,'&#8221; Doe said.<\/li><li>&#8220;I knew that was not true because he had often signed letters to me using &#8216;H.'&#8221;<\/li><li>She said she preferred to remain anonymous for \u201cfear of reprisals\u201d against herself, her family and her livelihood.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Details:\u00a0<\/strong>Doe said she had begun an intimate relationship with Walker in the late &#8217;80s in Dallas while he was playing football for the Cowboys.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axios: &#8220;A second woman has alleged that\u00a0Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee in\u00a0Georgia&#8217;s Senate race, paid for her abortion. The big picture:&nbsp;Walker has taken a strong anti-abortion&nbsp;stance&nbsp;in the hotly contested Senate race during this year&#8217;s midterm election cycle, and has denied both allegations against him. Driving the news:&nbsp;The woman, who was identified by attorney Gloria Allred&#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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103902","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=103902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103903,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103902\/revisions\/103903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}