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updated 10/10/2012 2
56 PM ET
A freshman congressman running for re-election on a pro-life platform urged his pregnant mistress to get an abortion a decade ago, according to a transcript of the recorded conversation.
The undated phone recording appears to have been made before Republican Rep. Scott DesJarlais' divorce from his wife, Susan, was finalized in 2001. In the undated conversation, DesJarlais tells the unidentified woman that he is concerned that she hadn't taken steps toward terminating the pregnancy.
"You told me you'd have an abortion, and now we're getting too far along without one," DesJarlais said, according to the transcript. "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."
The DesJarlais campaign did not immediately return a phone message from The Associated Press seeking comment, but did not dispute the contests of the transcript to the Huffington Post, which first reported about its existence. But the campaign in a statement condemned its publication.
updated 10/10/2012 2
56 PM ET A freshman congressman running for re-election on a pro-life platform urged his pregnant mistress to get an abortion a decade ago, according to a transcript of the recorded conversation.
The undated phone recording appears to have been made before Republican Rep. Scott DesJarlais' divorce from his wife, Susan, was finalized in 2001. In the undated conversation, DesJarlais tells the unidentified woman that he is concerned that she hadn't taken steps toward terminating the pregnancy.
"You told me you'd have an abortion, and now we're getting too far along without one," DesJarlais said, according to the transcript. "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."
The DesJarlais campaign did not immediately return a phone message from The Associated Press seeking comment, but did not dispute the contests of the transcript to the Huffington Post, which first reported about its existence. But the campaign in a statement condemned its publication.
)or maybe he is just a lying politician, who knows?
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