Walker, who has the backing of former President Donald Trump, has made his opposition to abortion one of the key points in his fight for a Georgia Senate seat in the Nov. 8 midterm elections.
“Herschel Walker is a hypocrite and has no qualifications to be a United States senator,” the woman, who did not reveal her identity, said in a video conference call organized by her attorney, Gloria Allred.
Allred, famous for representing women in cases of gender violence, stated that the complainant fears for her safety.
Identified as Jane Doe, equivalent in the United States to “so-and-so”, the woman said she began a relationship in November 1987 with Walker, when the former athlete was married and played for the Dallas Cowboys.
“In April 1993 I found out I was pregnant, I went into shock, I didn’t know what to do,” she said. “After discussing the pregnancy with Herschel several times, she urged me to have an abortion and gave me the money for it.”
The accusation comes weeks after another woman accused the Conservative candidate of paying for her abortion in 2009. Walker, 60, denied it. But, faced with other scandals, including domestic violence, he has been forced during the campaign to acknowledge that he has three extramarital children.
The Senate race in Georgia, in which Walker is facing Democrat Raphael Warnock, is one of the most closely contested in the country and, according to polls, remains close.
On Wednesday, the woman who claims to be another ex-lover of Walker’s said that, at his request, she went to a clinic in Dallas after discovering her pregnancy, but backed down. “I could not do it”.
“When I told Herschel what had happened, he got upset and said he would come back to me to get an abortion. He took me to the clinic the next day and waited in the parking lot for hours until I came out. Then he took me to buy medicine and home, ”said Jane Doe.
Her voice breaking, the woman called the experience “devastating.” “I felt that I had been pressured into having an abortion.”
The relationship, he said, cooled down from the procedure by decision of the former athlete turned politician.
Allred showed letters signed with the letter “H” and a hotel receipt as evidence of the relationship between his client and today’s candidate. He claimed to have more in her possession, but stated that the woman would not come out of anonymity nor would it be revealed how much she paid for the abortion.
The only personal detail revealed about “so-and-so” is that she is a Trump voter, an indication that her motivation was not political.
