Former mistress accuses pro-life GOP congressman of urging her to get an abortion

[iluvtennis]

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/former-mistress-accuses-pro-life-gop-congressman-of-urging-her-to-get-an-abortion-report/

ep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), a prominent pro-life conservative previously backed by the National Right to Life Committee, urged a woman with whom he had an extramarital affair with to get an abortion, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.

“You have zero issue posting your pro-life stance all over the place when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just last week when we thought that was one of the options,” Murphy’s former lover Shannon Edwards wrote in a text message after the GOP Congressman wrote an anti-abortion post on his Facebook account.

In a transcript of the text message thread obtained by the Post-Gazette, Murphy tried to mitigate Edwards’ charges of hypocrisy. “I get what you say about my March for life [sic] message,” Murphy wrote to Edwards. “I’ve never written them. Staff does them. I read them and winced. I told staff don’t write any more. I will.”

Murphy last month admitted to an affair with Edwards, a forensic psychologist and personal friend, after Edwards’ husband sought to depose the congressman during divorce proceedings.

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GAH, another "darling, good guy" GOPer

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. All pre menopause women to be made potential criminals with new abortion ban

[malaise]

2. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

I love scandals about ReTHUG hypocrites. Pass the butter please

[Solly Mack]

3. Hypocrisy is their life's blood.

Lying is their oxygen.

[Docreed2003]

4. Similar story happened here inTN with Rep Desjarlais

That asshole was re-elected by his evangelical GOP voters!

[DFW]

5. The exact same thing happened to a right wing member of the German parliament about 20 years ago

The guy was from the Catholic bastion of Bavaria, and was himself a married, practicing (supposedly) Catholic. When it came out that he had a mistress, and leaned on her to get an abortion after he got her pregnant, his political career was over in an instant.

The guy should have been in America, where Republicans are so liberal (oh, how ironic), that they keep re-electing sleazeballs like that, no matter what they have done, as long as they wave the Bible, don't force other Republicans to eat broccoli, ask the Lord for forgiveness, and blame libbruls for the whole thing.