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The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

Republicans throw support behind Herschel Walker after abortion denial

‘Walker is being slandered and maligned by the ‘fake news media’ and obviously, the Democrats,’ former President Donald Trump said.
‘Walker is being slandered and maligned by the ‘fake news media’ and obviously, the Democrats,’ former president Donald Trump said. Photograph: Akili-Casundria Ramsess/AP

Republicans and anti-abortion groups across the country have been flocking to Herschel Walker’s defense despite accusations that the Republican candidate for Georgia’s senate paid for a woman’s abortion in 2009.

After the accusation from an alleged ex-girlfriend was first reported in the Daily Beast, some of the country’s most influential Republicans have been either echoing Walker’s denial of the abortion or remaining in deafening silence, in turn revealing a clear hypocrisy towards the issue of abortion rights.

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