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Republic Congressman Tim Murphy, a hero for anti-abortion, resigns for a scandal to ask his lover to abort his own unborn child |
Republican Congressman Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania |
VietPress USA (Oct. 5th, 2017): Republican congressman Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania , one of the top leader of the GOP Congress for anti-abortion, is now in big love affair scandal and he just declares to resign be cause he dropped his pro-life mask to request his lover to abort her pregnancy.
On 3 October 2017, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that
text messages exchanged between Congressman Tim Murphy and Dr. Shannon Edwards,
with whom he was allegedly having an affair, suggested Murphy had at one point
urged her to have an abortion.
Murphy, a Republican who represents the 18th District of
Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives and has a long record of
voting for and supporting the restriction of abortion rights and access, has
been accused of hypocrisy in the wake of the report. He is one of 182
co-sponsors of a bill that would ban abortion in cases where the gestational
age of a fetus is 20 weeks or more. That bill passed the House on 3 October.
A text message sent in January to U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy by a
woman with whom he had an extra-marital relationship took him to task for an anti-abortion
statement posted on Facebook from his office’s public account.
“And you have zero issue posting your pro-life stance all
over the place when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just
last week when we thought that was one of the options,” Shannon Edwards, a
forensic psychologist in Pittsburgh with whom the congressman Tim Murphy admitted last
month to having a relationship, wrote to Mr. Murphy on Jan. 25, in the midst of
an unfounded pregnancy scare.
Speaker Ryan said in a statement, “This afternoon I received
a letter of resignation from Congressman Tim Murphy, effective October 21. It
was Dr. Murphy’s decision to move on to the next chapter of his life, and I
support it.”
National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman
Steve Stivers released a statement regarding Rep. Murphy’s resignation. Stivers
said, “As I said last night, the circumstances surrounding this situation are
extremely disappointing to me.”
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Tim Murphy (left) and House Speaker Paul Ryan (right) |
GOP Rep. Tim Murphy to retire after reports of affair
MARC LEVY ,
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican congressman Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania announced Wednesday that he would not run for a ninth term, amid tawdry revelations of an extramarital affair in which the anti-abortion lawmaker urged his mistress to get an abortion when he thought she was pregnant.
Murphy said in a brief statement through his office that he will "take personal time to seek help as my family and I continue to work through our personal difficulties."
Murphy's decision came a day after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published text messages between Murphy and Shannon Edwards.
A Jan. 25 text message from Edwards told the congressman he had "zero issue posting your pro-life stance all over the place when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just last week when we thought that was one of the options," according to the newspaper.
A text message from Murphy's number in response said his staff was responsible for his anti-abortion messages: "I've never written them. Staff does them. I read them and winced. I told staff don't write any more."
Edwards, it turned out, wasn't pregnant. Murphy recently acknowledged his affair with Edwards, which became public as a result of her divorce proceedings.
The revelation came as the House on Tuesday approved Republican legislation that would make it a crime to perform an abortion after 20 weeks of fetal development. Murphy, a member of the House Pro-Life Caucus, is among the bill's co-sponsors and voted for it.
The Post-Gazette also published a six-page memo apparently written by Murphy's congressional chief of staff and dated June 8, in which she accused Murphy of subjecting his staff members to "threats, hostility, anger and harassment."
Neither Murphy nor his office has commented on the newspaper report.
Murphy is serving his eighth term representing a district in southwestern Pennsylvania, including parts of suburban Pittsburgh. The district is a safe Republican seat, with Republican Donald Trump beating Democrat Hillary Clinton by a margin of three-to-two in last November's presidential election.
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