Abortion Hypocrisy Scandals

Displaying 8 Scandals
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Giovanni CapriglioneState Representative
7/25/25
Paid an exotic dancer for "meetups" during their 17-year extramarital affair and hypocritically funded multiple abortions she underwent throughout their affair while also authoring one of the most extreme anti-abortion laws in the country that made it a state crime for women in Texas to seek or obtain the procedureAccording to his paramour Alex Grace who spoke exclusively with the Texas Tribune
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10/03/22
Paid for ex-girlfriend to get an abortion in 2009 and later expressed support for a total abortion ban with no exception for incest, rape, or the life of the motherAccording to a report by The Daily Beast -
Scott LloydFmr. Health & Human Services Federal Executive
8/22/18
Drove his pregnant girlfriend to get an abortion when they were both young, but later when he oversaw a refugee resettlement agency, he hypocritically intervened to prevent teen migrants -- including a rape victim -- from obtaining the same procedureAccording to a report by Mother Jones
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Tim MurphyFmr. U.S. Representative
10/04/17
Asked a woman he was having an extramarital affair with to get an abortion when she told him she thought she was pregnant while also having had voted in favor of numerous abortion restrictions against womenAccording to text messages he sent to her that were obtained by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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5/05/15
Drove his college girlfriend to get a secret abortion at a Louisville clinic and became "enraged" when he learned she listed his real name as her driver home on the release form which exposed his anti-choice hypocrisyAccording to an exclusive report by The Courier-Journal -
11/15/12
Helped facilitate two abortions for his ex-wife while also hypocritically portraying himself as a "consistent support of pro-life values" who repeatedly voted to pass anti-abortion legislationAccording to his own sworn testimony in his divorce trial
10/10/12
Urged a woman he was having an affair with who also happened to be his OBGYN patient to get an abortion while having had expressed ardently anti-choice views in publicAccording to a phone call transcript obtained by The Huffington Post -
Mike EricksonFmr. U.S. Rep Nominee
6/23/08
Gave his pregnant girlfriend $300 and dropped her off at a medical clinic known for providing abortions while having previously run as "pro-life" candidate and then later said he had no idea she was going to get an abortion which she flatly deniedAccording to an investigative report by The Oregonian
Abortions are an importance part of women's healthcare. It's a personal decision and nobody's business but you and whoever you choose to talk about it with. It's quite the hypocrisy when men advocate for anti-abortion policies publicly while privately supporting a decision to have an abortion when it personally impacts them. No surprise, there are many notable known incidents of Republican politicians doing just that. And since abortions are a very private sensitive matter, imagine how hypocritical actions on abortion by Republicans we never heard about.
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