The Woman Says She Had To Push Herschel Walker To Pay For The Abortion She Wanted

“When I talked to him, I said, ‘You have to send — I can’t afford to pay for that,’” the woman said in one of several interviews with The Washington Post in recent days, adding that she also told him, “We did that, too. We both did this. We both know how babies are made.” The woman, who lived in the Atlanta area at the time, she said she got pregnant when she was unemployed and had less than $600 in her bank account. Walker sent a $700 check via FedEx about a week after the procedure, the woman said. The Post reviewed an image of the check printed on an ATM slip, with Walker’s name and an address matching where he lived at the time. A copy of the check and deposit reviewed by The Post includes Walker’s signature and name. It was filed nine days after the woman said she had an abortion. The Post reviewed a receipt for $575 at a women’s medical center that day. She said she didn’t know exactly how much an abortion would cost and estimated the amount she told Walker she would need based on online searches. The extensive debate about payment for the termination procedure of the first pregnancy has not been reported before. The woman and the confidante both spoke on condition of anonymity to protect their privacy and that of their loved ones. As previously reported, the same woman also says Walker forced her to have an abortion again when she became pregnant a second time. she chose to give birth to her son, who is now 10 years old. The woman sued Walker in New York in 2013 for child support after he allegedly refused to provide it, according to a person familiar with the case, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive details. Walker, who now says he is a multi-millionaire, said at the time he was making about $140,000 a year, the person said. The new revelations deepen questions about Walker’s behavior toward his wives and children, as well as the conflict between his public opposition to abortion and his alleged private behavior. Walker and his campaign denied the woman’s claims that she wanted to have two abortions, and Walker initially claimed he did not know the woman who had them. “I don’t know anything about any woman having an abortion,” Walker told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt last week after the Daily Beast first reported the allegation that she paid for an abortion. “If that was the case, I would say so, because it’s nothing to be ashamed of.” Walker is running on a platform that opposes abortion in all cases, with no exceptions for rape or incest or to protect the life of the mother. She has said she would vote to ban the procedure nationally after 15 weeks of pregnancy. He has also criticized black men for being absentee parents – a criticism now leveled at him by his wife and grown son from another mother, Christian Walker. Herschel Walker has acknowledged that he has four children with four different women. Three women, including his first wife, told police that Walker threatened them in various ways. Walker did not dispute his first wife’s account, but he or his campaign denied the others. National GOP rallies behind Walker. But in Georgia, Republicans are worried. The Daily Beast first reported the woman’s account that Walker was paying for an abortion, and the New York Times later reported the woman’s account of Walker’s unsuccessful attempts to convince her to have another abortion. The woman told The Post that those reports accurately described her experiences. The woman initially supported Walker’s Senate campaign, but said that changed after he announced he would ban all abortions. The woman described an ongoing relationship with Walker. the attorney who represented her during the child support case said in a statement at the time that it lasted from November 2008 to September 2011. In the weeks before and after the 2009 abortion, her confidant at the time recalled her he explained to her to pressure Walker into sending funds, which the person recalled interpreting as an attempt to get the former football player to take some responsibility for his actions. “He was like, ‘I’ll do it as soon as you send the check,’” the person recalled. “And he was like, ‘I sent the check.’ And he said, “It’s been seven days. Do not understand.” Walker reported in August 2022 that he had income and assets worth between about $27 million and $59 million, according to financial disclosure forms. Walker is seeking to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael G. Warnock in November. The race is close, the polls show. Both parties see Georgia as a key battleground in the broader race for control of the Senate. Walker and Warnock are set to debate Friday in Savannah. Anti-abortion groups have rallied to Walker’s side as have some national Republican leaders. Some Republicans in Georgia said they worry they made a mistake by nominating a candidate without vetting. On Tuesday, Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.), who chairs the National Republican Senate Committee, and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) appeared at a rally for Walker in Georgia. Former President Donald Trump has been in talks about coming to Georgia for a rally in recent weeks before Election Day. A central part of Walker’s pitch is that he struggled with and recovered from mental illness, a story of redemption that his team believes will resonate with Georgia voters. He wrote a book published in 2008 called “Breaking Free,” in which he detailed the violent thoughts he had while struggling with dissociative identity disorder. He also says those episodes ended after he said he got professional help for his condition. In 2009, at least two women Walker dated were pregnant, according to public records in one case and three people familiar with the other pregnancy. One gave birth to a boy in February 2009, according to public records. Later that year, the woman who spoke to The Post began making repeated calls to Walker to tell him she was pregnant. When Walker finally answered, he told the woman it was “not a good time” for a baby, she said. “We’re going to have to do this the right way,” he added, hinting that the couple could have a planned pregnancy at some point in the future, according to the woman. The woman she said she didn’t know she had just had a child born in February 2009. The woman agreed to have an abortion and said she repeatedly asked him for money to cover the cost. The woman had less than $600 in her bank account, according to her bill and an ATM receipt. In the midst of the Great Depression, she had lost her job, she said. Days After the procedure, Walker sent a check for $700 along with a welcome card containing a drawing of a brewed cup of tea and including a handwritten note from Walker. “Pray you feel better,” he signed, “H.” It was the first time Walker had sent money to the woman, she said. The card was seen as an acknowledgment of the abortion, according to the woman and two other people with contemporary memories of her. The woman also provided a copy of a $575 receipt from the Women’s Medical Center of Atlanta, showing she had paid for the visa procedure card on September 12, 2009. And he had a pamphlet from the center detailing “Postoperative Instructions.” The second time she became pregnant, in 2011, Walker also did not immediately return her calls, she said. Walker said again that she shouldn’t have the baby, according to the woman and her confidante. Again, Walker said it was “not a good time” for a baby, she said. But the woman said she did not want to undergo a second abortion and felt fate had intervened, with the second pregnancy a “sign” that she should raise the child. Walker sent the woman occasional checks during her second pregnancy, she said, but the money didn’t come in on any regular schedule, so she couldn’t depend on it. “It was just every time he felt like getting close to it,” the woman recalls. Eventually, the woman took Walker to court to get child support, records show. “The child’s mother is a graduate student … struggling to make ends meet,” according to a May 2013 statement in that case from her then-lawyer, Andres Alonso. “Unfortunately, Mr. Walker has so far chosen not to take full financial responsibility for the care of his alleged son.” Walker was ordered to pay $3,500 a month in child support, according to the person familiar with the case. He also paid a $15,000 lump sum to help cover hospital costs related to his son’s birth and the child’s early care, the person said. The child support payments were based on Walker having an annual income of about $140,000 a year in 2013, the person said. Financial disclosures Walker filed this year for his Senate run show $3 million in annual income from H. Walker Enterprises, LLC, an entity he reported was worth between $25 million and $50 million. Walker’s behavior toward his family has come up repeatedly during the campaign. Walker has been harshly critical of absent Black fathers, once calling the behavior “a major, major problem.” “Father is leaving the Black family. It leaves the boys alone to be raised by their mom,” Walker said in an interview in 2021. “If you have a child with a woman, even if you have to leave that woman — even if you have to leave her – you don’t leave this child.” But he had only publicly discussed one of his four children until the Daily Beast published a report earlier this year that he had welcomed a second child. He then identified three sons and a daughter and showed…