Pro-Life Congressman Asked His Mistress To Get An Abortion

Rep. Tim Murphy

Well, well, well. It's always so interesting when we come across hypocritical "pro-life" politicians who vote against pro-choice rights but seek remedies like abortion for their own life events.

In newly obtained documents, anti-abortion (and anti-LGBT) Rep. Tim Murphy asked his mistress to terminate a pregnancy this year even as he was putting out anti-abortion political positions.

From Slate:

According to documents obtained by the Post-Gazette, Shannon Edwards—a Pittsburgh woman exactly half Murphy’s age with whom he recently admitted to having an extramarital affair—texted Murphy in January about a possible pregnancy that turned out to be just a scare. “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,” she said, referring to a post from Murphy’s professional Facebook account that accused America of “discarding and disregarding the most vulnerable” for allowing abortions past 20 weeks’ gestation.

“I get what you say about my March for life messages,” Murphy responded. “I’ve never written them. Staff does them. I read them and winced. I told staff don't write any more. I will.”

Such a paragon of virtue.

In addition to opposing any pro-choice positions, Murphy voted against LGBT legislation like the the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

And what did he vote for? A constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

With  a 100% rating from the Family Research Council it's not surprising to know he has a 0% rating from the Human Rights Campaign.