Confronted on Sunday with receipts that appear to prove he paid for the abortion of a woman he once dated, staunch anti-abortionist Herschel Walker – Georgia’s Republican candidate for the US Senate – had a ready response: “It’s a lie.”
Walker is competing for a Senate seat considered pivotal to determining which party controls the chamber in the 8 November midterms, but his campaign has spent weeks under fire after reports emerged earlier this month that Walker – who has publicly argued that abortion should be illegal nationwide without exceptions – sent the unnamed woman money to end her pregnancy.
