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Edward Helmore

Woman tells New York Times that Herschel Walker urged her to have second abortion

Portrait of Herschel Walker during a campaign rally.
Herschel Walker, Republican US Senate candidate, has said he does not know the identity of the woman who says he urged her to have a second abortion. Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA

Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for a Georgia US Senate seat, has maintained he does not know the identity of a woman who claims that in 2009 she terminated a pregnancy that was the result of her and Walker’s relationship.

But on Friday, the woman at the center of a political storm that threatens to undo the former Dallas Cowboys running back’s campaign told the New York Times that Walker urged her to terminate a second pregnancy two years later and that their relationship ended when she declined.

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