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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFamily Values Prick: Anti-abortion GOPer Pressured MISTRESS To Terminate Pregnancy

A Tea banging Family Values Hypo-critter!
Rep. Scott DesJarlais, a pro-life, Tea Party Republican who represents Tennessee, pressured his mistress and patient into getting an abortion, according to audio of a phone call obtained by the Huffington Post.
During November, 2000 divorce proceedings, Desjarlais ex-wife accused him of dry firing a gun outside the Plaintiffs locked bedroom door, admission of suicidal ideation, holding a gun in his mouth for three hours, an incident of physical intimidation at the hospital; and previous threatening behavior i.e. shoving, tripping, pushing down, etc. The case was brought up during Desjarlais campaign against Dem Rep. Lincoln Davis in 2010.
Michael McAuliff of HuffPo writes that the newly unearthed phone call took place in September, 2000, when Desjarlais was trying to save his marriage:
But the new transcript and other revelations from court documents paint a more damning picture of a man who was a serial philanderer willing to push one of his lovers whom he met as a patient with a foot problem to terminate a pregnancy, even when he suspected he was the father.
You told me youd have an abortion, and now were getting too far along without one, DesJarlais tells the woman at one point in the call while negotiating with her over whether hell reveal her identity to his wife. They then discuss whether he will accompany her to a procedure to end the sort of life the congressman now describes as sacred.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/scott-desjarlais-abortion-pro-life_n_1953136.html?1349878415
You told me youd have an abortion, and now were getting too far along without one, DesJarlais tells the woman at one point in the call while negotiating with her over whether hell reveal her identity to his wife. They then discuss whether he will accompany her to a procedure to end the sort of life the congressman now describes as sacred.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/scott-desjarlais-abortion-pro-life_n_1953136.html?1349878415
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/10/pro_life_goper_pressured_mistress_to_get_abortion/
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Family Values Prick: Anti-abortion GOPer Pressured MISTRESS To Terminate Pregnancy (Original Post)
Segami
Oct 2012
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Really. Just....wow. This 'person' shouldn't be in any position of authority. Ever.
Segami
(14,923 posts)2. Hmm, I guess this woman didn't possess the "magical mechanism" for preventing conception.