Pro-Life Congressional Candidate Drove Ex-GF to Abortion Clinic

Woman details abortion, relationship with “pro-life” congressional candidate

What a charmer. The Oregonian reports that Congressional candidate Mike Erickson fabricates a bunch of bull how he didn’t know he gave his girlfriend money for an abortion, how she wasn’t his girlfriend, and how he stopped seeing her after the “doctor’s appointment” he drove her to. Lies, lies.

What’s funniest to me is that if he came clean and said “I made a choice that hurt me and that’s why I became pro-life,” he’d sound reasonable. But instead he’s chosen to act like his ex-girlfriend’s experience is untrue when there’s documented evidence she had the procedure and that he continued to see her afterwards.

I guess it just goes to show that unlogical positions such as extreme pro-life (in the face of casual dating) will bite you on the butt.

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