Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) is the latest Republican member of Congress to get caught living a lie behind their “pro-life” stance.
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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported:
A text message sent in January to U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy by a woman with whom he had an extra-marital relationship took him to task for an anti-abortion statement posted on Facebook from his office’s public account.
“And 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,” Shannon Edwards, a forensic psychologist in Pittsburgh with whom the congressman admitted last month to having a relationship, wrote to Mr. Murphy on Jan. 25, in the midst of an unfounded pregnancy scare.
Murphy replied that the “pro-life messages make him wince and are actually written by office staff.
As PoliticusUSA’s own Sarah Jones pointed out:
Ask a woman, we know. It's ALWAYS this story. Men who want to control women with policy also want to control them IRL. https://t.co/fQAdTTl5Tv
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) October 3, 2017
And just like with any other group with bad apples, these men are not the majority of men. But a majority of men protect these bad apples like Rep. Tim Murphy – sometimes unintentionally, e.g., by adopting their framing of their attempts to control and dominate women. https://t.co/DXgMC6TZ1M
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) October 3, 2017
The issue for “pro-life” men isn’t about an unborn child. The real point is to control women and their bodies. People like Tim Murphy don’t believe what they are saying, but they say it because that is what a Republican male is supposed to believe. Tim Murphy is a hypocrite and a liar, and hopefully now that voters have seen who he really is, they will put an end to his political career next November.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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