Report: ‘Pro-Life’ PA Representative Pressured Mistress To Consider Abortion
UPDATE: Hypocrite!
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Tuesday afternoon that Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), a darling of the anti-choice movement, had pressured a woman with whom he was having an affair to get an abortion. Hours later, Murphy was one of 237 House representatives who voted in favor of extreme anti-abortion legislation.
The bill, entitled the “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,” would criminalize abortions after 20 weeks based on the junk science belief that fetuses can feel pain after that point. It is sponsored by Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ). Murphy is one of the legislation’s 182 co-sponsors.
The legislation passed the House 237-189. It has twice passed the House in the past.
Republicans are such predictable hypocrites. Whatever they are obsessed with and accusing the other side of doing is what they are actually doing. Take Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), for example. Rep. Murphy is a fine, upstanding Republican with a wife and a mistress. Good red-blooded guy, who is now implicated in his girlfriend’s divorce. According to…
