An anonymous woman reiterated her claim that Mr. Walker, a nominee for Senate in Georgia, pressured her to have an abortion decades ago. The Times could not confirm the account.
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Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia, is running for office as an avowed abortion opponent.
An anonymous woman on Tuesday defended her claim that Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Georgia, pressured her to have an abortion nearly three decades ago after a yearslong extramarital relationship.
The woman, who has not identified herself, first made the claim during a news conference last week, and reiterated it in an on-camera interview with ABC News on Tuesday. The New York Times could not confirm the account.
The woman told ABC News’s Juju Chang that Mr. Walker was “very clear that he did not want me to have the child.”
“He said that because of his wife’s family and powerful people around him that I would not be safe and that the child would not be safe,” she said.
Mr. Walker, a former football star and avowed abortion opponent, denied the allegations again. “This was a lie a week ago and it is a lie today,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.
In October, another woman said Mr. Walker had paid for her to have an abortion in 2009 and urged her to terminate a second pregnancy two years later. That woman, who also declined to be identified, told The Times in a series of interviews that they ended their relationship after she refused to have the second abortion. Mr. Walker called the claim “a flat-out lie.”
Source: nytimes.com
