A new woman is claiming that conservative politician Herschel Walker pressured her into getting an abortion nearly 30 years ago.
During Wednesday’s press conference, Jane Doe came forward with her story about the NFL pro turned Georgia Senate nominee. She has elected to keep her identity anonymous out of safety concerns, but that did not stop her from sharing her story via her attorney Gloria Allred. Doe called the Republican a “hypocrite” who forced her to have an abortion in 1993 while he was married to his first wife, Cindy Grossman. The woman says she initially backed out of the first scheduled procedure, but Walker was adamant and drove her back to the clinic, where he paid for the abortion.
“I went to a clinic in Dallas, but I simply couldn’t go through with it, “Joe stated. “I left the clinic in tears. When I told Herschel what had happened, he was upset and said that he was going to go back with me to the clinic the next day for me to have the abortion.”
Doe says she was motivated to tell her story after hearing about Walker pressuring another woman into an abortion in 2009, a claim that he has denied. That same woman would eventually become pregnant by him a second time but elected to have the child, who is now ten years old.
As proof of their relationship, the Doe shared several items, including a photo of Walker in her hotel room while he was at a training camp in Minnesota, a voicemail he left in 1992, and letters from Walker addressed to both her and her parents.
Walker has consistently shared his support of a national abortion ban with no exceptions for rape and incest victims. He has expressed that he also doesn’t support abortion to save the mother’s life. With the new allegations against him, Republicans have chosen to rally behind him. His campaign has raised over $500,000 since the first abortion story broke.
Walker has denied both women’s claims, telling reporters he is “done with this foolishness.”
