Georgian Senate nominee and former NFL star Herschel Walker has spoken out following reports that he paid for his ex-lover's abortion.
The Republican pro-lifer has previously campaigned to completely ban abortion, which he believes should never be permitted - even in cases of rape and incest - as detailed by The Hill.
A damning report published by The Daily Beast on Monday (October 3) revealed that the 60-year-old had allegedly conceived a child with an ex-lover in 2009, after which he urged her to get an abortion. The woman - who wished to remain anonymous - told the publication that Walker reimbursed her for the medical procedure.
In fact, the woman claimed to still have copies of a $575 receipt from the clinic, a $700 personal check from Walker to pay for the procedure, and a 'get well' card the father-of-four had sent her. Per the report, the woman said she had "ballparked" the cost of a termination in order to explain the $125 difference.
The card allegedly sent by Walker to the woman was viewed and published by The Daily Beast and appeared to show the Georgia native's handwriting, with a message that read: "Pray you are feeling better." It was signed with Walker's distinctive autograph.
However, Walker has strongly denied the allegations.
Regarding the allegations, Walker has since released his own statement on Twitter, calling them a: "Democrat attack."
"This is a flat out lie - and I deny this in the strongest possible terms," the former Dallas Cowboys running back wrote.
"This is another repugnant hatchet job from a Democrat activist disguised as a reporter who has obsessively attacked my family and tried to tear me down since this race started," Walker added.
He concluded his statement by stating: "I'm not taking this anymore. I [am] planning to sue the Daily Beast for this defamatory lie. It will be filed tomorrow morning."
Walker's son, Christian - who was born during Walker's 19-year-marriage to Cindy DeAngelis Grossman, per ABC - slammed his father in a contradictory Twitter statement.
The 22-year-old wrote: "Every family member of Herschel Walker asked him not to run for office, because we all knew (some of) his past. Every single one. He decided to give us the middle finger and air out all of his dirty laundry in public, while simultaneously lying about it. I'm done."
This isn't the first time the conservative politician has been accused of withholding the truth. Earlier this year, The Daily Beast published another report on Walker, claiming that he had not admitted to being a father of three children born out of wedlock (he'd previously only spoken about being a father to Christian).
In response to the criticism he received from this, Walker stated, via Associated Press: "I've never denied any of my kids and I love them more than I love anything. And they didn't do anything, which just makes me want to fight harder because I'm tired of people misleading the American people. I'm tired of people misleading my family."
Previously, Walker had hit out at absentee fathers in the Black community in an interview on The Charlie Kirk Show, remarking: "I want to apologize to the African-American community, because the fatherless home is a major, major problem."
