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Latest Report of Woman ‘Threatened’ By Walker Adds To Troubling Pattern He Refuses to Answer For

Jane Doe: “I Felt Threatened and I Thought I Had No Choice.” 

Atlanta, GA — The latest report of a woman who was “threatened” by Herschel Walker adds to a troubling pattern he refuses to answer for. As new details emerge this morning of Walker’s relationship with a woman who told Good Morning America “I felt threatened,” he continues to dodge press and is failing to take responsibility for a pattern of lies and troubling, violent behavior. 

“Herschel Walker’s refusal to answer questions about this latest report of violence or his troubling pattern of violent behavior raises more questions about what else we don’t know about Walker and his record,” said Meredith Brasher, communications director for Warnock for Georgia. 

Here’s what Georgians are seeing about Walker’s threatening behavior:

Watch CNN’s Coverage HERE

John King, CNN: Two women have said Herschel Walker paid them to have abortions. He denies this. The second woman this morning went public.

Jane Doe: He was very clear that he did not want me to have the child and he said that because of his wife’s family and powerful people around him that I would not be safe and that the child would not be safe.

Juju Chang, ABC News: That’s very menacing.

Jane Doe: It is very menacing. It is very menacing and I felt threatened and I thought I had no choice.

John King, CNN: You watch it and you’re stopped in your tracks. Again, Walker has repeatedly said this is a lie. It takes a lot of courage to do that. 

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Herschel Walker accuser says she felt “threatened” after revealing pregnancy

• A woman who accused Republican Senate hopeful Herschel Walker of pressuring her to have an abortion nearly three decades ago showed her face for the first time in an interview with Good Morning America and said she felt “threatened” by the football star after she revealed to him she was pregnant.
   
• In the interview, broadcast Tuesday, the woman expounded on the allegations she first leveled anonymously a week ago – that she had a years-long romantic relationship with Walker but when she became pregnant in 1993 he urged her to have an abortion and drove her back to a Texas clinic to complete the procedure after she changed her mind. Walker is a staunch opponent of abortion rights.
   
• Walker on Tuesday said the claim was, “a lie a week ago and it is a lie today.” He also denied knowing the woman, who first came forward anonymously a week ago with her lawyer, Gloria Allred, even though she showed a picture that showed them together.
   
• In the new interview, the woman said her relationship with Walker, who was married, changed after she became pregnant.
   
• “He was very clear that he did not want me to have the child and he said that he said that because of his wife’s family and powerful people around him that I would not be safe and that the child would not be safe,” she said,
   
• “That’s very menacing,” ABC reporter Juju Chang replied. “It is very menacing. It is very menacing. And I felt threatened and I thought I had no choice,” she said.
   
• The woman is the second to come forward to claim that Walker encouraged her to have an abortion after becoming pregnant by him.
   
• That other woman, who has spoken to other news outlets without revealing her name or her face has declined to speak to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She told other outlets that Walker paid for her 2009 abortion and urged her to have a second, but she did not. She and Walker have a child together.

Axios: Woman who alleged Herschel Walker paid for her abortion: “I felt threatened”

• The second woman who alleged that Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee in Georgia’s Senate race, pressured her into having an abortion said Tuesday that she felt “threatened.”
   
• “He was very clear that he did not want me to have the child,” the woman, who was identified by attorney Gloria Allred as “Jane Doe,” said in an exclusive ABC News interview, which aired Tuesday on “Good Morning America.”
   
• “He said that because of his wife’s family and powerful people around him, that I would not be safe and that the child would not be safe,” the woman said in her first on-camera remarks since making the allegation last week.
   
• “It is very menacing,” she added. “I felt threatened and I thought I had no choice.”
   
• Walker has taken a strong anti-abortion stance in the Georgia Senate race and has denied both allegations against him. “This was a lie a week ago and it is a lie today,” Walker’s campaign said in a statement.
   
• Jane Doe said that Walker gave her cash to pay for the abortion and she does not have a receipt for the procedure.
   
• “He came to my house and picked me up and drove me to the clinic,” the woman recalled, after she had hesitations about going through with the procedure.
   
• “I went in alone and he waited in the car while I went in and had the procedure,” she said.

CNBC: Herschel Walker’s 2nd abortion accuser shows her face in TV interview

• A woman who last week anonymously accused Republican Senate hopeful Herschel Walker of pressuring her to have an abortion said she decided to show her face after the anti-abortion candidate called her a liar.
   
• “I’ve kept this to myself for thirty years,” the woman, who still chose to be referred to as “Jane Doe,” said in an on-camera interview that aired Tuesday on ABC News’ “Good Morning America.”
   
• “I protected him. And I wanted this to remain private, for obvious reasons,” the woman said.
   
• Doe is the second woman to allege that Walker, a former pro football player running to unseat incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia, had pressured and paid for her to get an abortion when they were in a relationship years earlier. 
   
• Walker, a critic of absentee fathers who has expressed support for an abortion ban without exceptions, has denied the allegations from both women.
   
• She said she decided to come forward after hearing Walker deny the first woman’s accusations, in part by claiming he never signed letters with an “H.” “I knew I had many cards from him where he signed the letter ‘H.’ And so I believed then that she was telling the truth,” Doe said in the televised interview.
   
• Walker, in a statement responding to Doe’s new interview, told NBC News, “This was a lie a week ago and it is a lie today.”
   
• The woman, who says she is a registered independent who voted for former President Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, said she was motivated by the truth, not politics, to come forward with her accusation.
   
• “I think honesty matters,” she said when asked why she believes Walker is not fit to serve in the U.S. Senate.
   
• The woman said that in 1993 she unexpectedly became pregnant, despite being on birth control. She went to an abortion clinic in Dallas, but at first became overwhelmed and did not go through with it. Walker then drove her back to the clinic, then waited in the car while she went in alone.
   
• Walker gave her cash to get the abortion, she said, and she has no receipts or other records to show she got the procedure.
   
• Walker “was very clear that he did not want me to have the child,” Doe said. “He said that, because of his wife’s family and powerful people around him, that I would not be safe and that the child would not be safe.”
   
• It was “very menacing,” she added. “And I felt threatened, and I thought I had no choice.”
   
• After getting the abortion, she said, Walker began distancing himself from her. She left Dallas soon after. Walker has occasionally reached out to her, according to the interview. The segment also included a 2019 photo showing the woman and Walker standing together and smiling.
   
• “I told my parents I had a miscarriage,” the visibly emotional woman said, “because I couldn’t tell them the truth. And I told a few friends the same thing, because I couldn’t tell them the truth.”
   
• “It just was very shameful, and I felt like I had been manipulated,” she said.

New York Times: Second Anonymous Woman Defends Claim That Walker Pressured Her for Abortion

• An anonymous woman on Tuesday defended her claim that Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Georgia, pressured her to have an abortion nearly three decades ago after a yearslong extramarital relationship.
   
• The woman, who has not identified herself, first made the claim during a news conference last week, and reiterated it in an on-camera interview with ABC News on Tuesday. The New York Times could not confirm the account.
   
• The woman told ABC News’s Juju Chang that Mr. Walker was “very clear that he did not want me to have the child.”
   
• “He said that because of his wife’s family and powerful people around him that I would not be safe and that the child would not be safe,” she said.
   
• Mr. Walker, a former football star and avowed abortion opponent, denied the allegations again. “This was a lie a week ago and it is a lie today,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.
   
• In October, another woman said Mr. Walker had paid for her to have an abortion in 2009 and urged her to terminate a second pregnancy two years later. That woman, who also declined to be identified, told The Times in a series of interviews that they ended their relationship after she refused to have the second abortion. Mr. Walker called the claim “a flat-out lie.”

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