Second woman says Herschel Walker pressured her to have abortion

A new woman has claimed that Herschel Walker pressured her into having an abortion and drove her to a clinic to obtain one.

Allred said that her client, whom she introduced as Jane Doe, began dating the former football player in 1987 and had an intimate relationship with him for several years.

At the news conference, Allred presented evidence of hotel receipts, handwritten letters and a voice recording that Walker left Doe during their relationship.

Doe then explained that Walker drove her again to the clinic and waited for her for hours until the abortion was complete.

Walker has voiced strict anti-abortion policies but has already been accused of paying for an abortion for another woman.

The Georgia Senate race is one of a group of contests that could be key to deciding control of the Senate in the midterm elections on 8 November.

The Democratic incumbent, Raphael Warnock, was elected in 2020, and along with Jon Ossoff gave Democrats the seats they needed to split the Senate 50-50, and control it via the vote of the vice-president, Kamala Harris.

Warnock is a pastor at a church where the civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King once preached. Walker is a former college and NFL football star with a chequered business career who is endorsed by Donald Trump.

Nationwide, Democrats hope the supreme court ruling on abortion will help motivate turnout as they seek to hold the House and Senate.

Walker has said he is in favour of a total abortion ban, in line with Republican policy in the aftermath of the US supreme court ruling which removed the right to abortion in June.

On the debate stage earlier this month, Walker tried to deny being in favour of an outright ban and attacked Warnock for being a Baptist pastor but supporting abortion rights.