The second woman to accuse Herschel Walker of impregnating her and then paying for her abortion said the now-Georgia U.S. Senate candidate made her feel threatened to undergo the procedure.


What You Need To Know

  • The second woman to accuse Herschel Walker of impregnating her and then paying for her abortion said the now Georgia U.S. Senate candidate made her feel threatened to undergo the procedure

  • “He said that because of his wife's family and powerful people around him that I would not be safe and that the child would not be safe,” the woman told ABC News

  • The Republican Senate hopeful has previously said he supports a total, nationwide abortion ban with no exceptions, although he denied during a debate last month of ever having that hard-line stand

  • Walker has denied both allegations, claiming they are fabricated attacks aimed at keeping him from winning his election

  • According to ABC News, Jane Doe is a registered independent who says she voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020; Asked why she doesn’t think Walker is fit to be a senator, she said, “I think honesty matters.”

The latest accuser spoke with ABC News in an interview that aired Tuesday on “Good Morning America.” ABC interviewed the woman on camera but agreed not to report her name, referring to her instead as “Jane Doe.”

She says she and Walker began their affair in the Dallas area in the late 1980s when he was a star running back for the Dallas Cowboys and still married to his first wife. Jane Doe told ABC that in 1993 she became pregnant after her birth control failed and that Walker was clear he did not want to have the baby.

“He said that because of his wife's family and powerful people around him that I would not be safe and that the child would not be safe,” the woman said.

“That’s very menacing,” ABC News reporter Juju Chang responded. 

“It is very menacing. It is very menacing,” Jane Doe said. “And I felt threatened, and I thought I had no choice.”

Last month, another woman, whose name also is being withheld by the press, told the Daily Beast that Walker paid for her to have an abortion in 2009 after she became pregnant with his child. Jane Doe said she had kept her story private for nearly 30 years but felt compelled to go public after seeing Walker deny that a “get well” card his first accuser provided to the Daily Beast was from him because he claimed he never signed cards with the letter “H.”

“I knew I had many cards from him where he signed the letter ‘H,’” Jane Doe said. “And so I believed then that she was telling the truth.”

ABC News reported that Jane Doe showed it some cards and letters she says were from Walker.

The Republican Senate hopeful has previously said he supports a total, nationwide abortion ban with no exceptions, although he denied during a debate last month of ever having that hard-line stand. He claimed instead he favors a ban after six weeks, the same as Georgia’s so-called heartbeat law.

He has denied having any knowledge of either of his accusers having an abortion. The first accuser also says Walker is the father of another child they conceived together years later, whom he unsuccessfully urged her to abort as well, she said.

Walker has denied both women’s allegations, claiming they are fabricated attacks aimed at keeping him from winning his election.

When ABC News contacted Walker’s campaign for comment on its report that aired Tuesday, the campaign pointed the network to comments Walker made on Fox News after Jane Doe’s allegations first surfaced.

“That's a lie. And I've said that's a lie, and I hope people can see right now that Raphael Warnock [his Democratic opponent] and the left would do whatever they can to win the seat," Walker said. 

“I've said this a lie. I've moved on, and they want me to play these guessing games and all of this, but I'm not into that,” he added.

Jane Doe said the first time she went to an abortion clinic, she could not go through with the procedure. She said Walker talked her into going back and he waited in the car outside while she had the abortion.

Jane Doe said Walker began to distance himself from her after the abortion. She said she told her parents and a few friends she had a miscarriage because “I couldn’t tell them the truth.”

“I just was very shameful,” she said. “I felt like I had been manipulated.”

She said she moved out of the Dallas area shortly after the abortion and never returned.

According to ABC News, Jane Doe is a registered independent who says she voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. Asked why she doesn’t think Walker is fit to be a senator, she said, “I think honesty matters.”