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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis week in the War on Women: Hey, sluts, want an abortion? Screw a married 'pro-life' congressman!
A pro-life, family-values congressman who worked as a doctor before winning election as a Tea Party-backed Republican had an affair with a patient and later pressured her to get an abortion, according to a phone call transcript obtained by The Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/scott-desjarlais-abortion-pro-life_n_1953136.html?1349878415
The congressman, Rep. Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee, was trying to save his marriage at the time, according to his remarks on the call, made in September of 2000.
"You told me you would have time to go with me and everything," the woman complains.
"I said, if I could, I would, didn't I? And I will try," DesJarlais says. "If I can [find] time, you're saying you still will?"
"Yeah," the woman answers. [...]
"This is not fair to me. I don't want you in my life," the woman says.
"Well, I didn't want to be in your life either, but you lied to me about something that caused us to be in this situation, and that's not my fault, that's yours," the doctor responds.
"Well, it's [your] fault for sleeping with your patient," the woman fires back. [...]
"If we need to go to Atlanta, or whatever, to get this solved and get it over with so we can get on with our lives, then let's do it," DesJarlais says.
Well, weve got to do something soon. And youve even got to admit that because the clock is ticking right? he says at another point.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/13/1143718/-This-week-in-the-War-on-Women-Hey-sluts-want-an-abortion-Screw-a-married-pro-life-congressman?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29
charmay
(525 posts)Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)I live in Tennessee. This asshole is not my representative, thankfully, but I'd like to look into ways in which this asshole could be impeached.
Then again, I don't know if I want to impeach people for their morals, like the GOP did to Clinton; however, Clinton wasn't a hypocrite who advocated against abortion and then forced a mistress to have one.
Ugh.