“Herschel Walker, the American football legend who is campaigning in Georgia for a seat in the Senate, claims to want to completely ban abortion, which he equates to murder, and this ‘without exception’ in case of rape, incest or risk to the life of the mother. However, the Republican candidate has granted an exception: for himself”, affirmed The Daily Beast Monday, October 4.
A woman who wished to remain anonymous told the US site that this former athlete, with whom she allegedly had an affair, had pushed her to have an abortion in 2009, then reimbursing the intervention. She provided the Daily Beast a receipt from the clinic, a card from Herschel Walker wishing him a speedy recovery and the image of a check signed by him. “I can’t take this hypocrisy anymore”, she told the site.
The candidate refuted the accusation en bloc, denouncing as early as October 3 on Twitter “a plain and simple lie”, a “democratic attack” and announcing that he was going to sue for defamation – which he did not do, notes a left-wing columnist from the Guardian.
The case keeps getting worse
The scandal has not yet subsided. Still on Monday, his 23-year-old son, himself an ultra-conservative influencer, took him to task