Karmic justice is just so goddamn beautiful sometimes.
An anti-abortion congressman in the United States has been exposed for asking his mistress to have one, and it honestly doesn’t get better than this.
According to text messages obtained by the Pittsburg Post-Gazette, Representative Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania asked forensic psychologist and former mistress Shannon Edwards (he admitted to the affair last month) to get an abortion in January this year.
The paper published a text message from Edwards to Murphy, which was sent in anger after the congressman posted a heavy anti-abortion statement on his official Facebook page.
“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,” it read.
A reply text from Murphy’s phone number read: “I get what you say about my March for life messages. I’ve never written them. Staff does them. I read them and winced. I told staff don’t write any more. I will.”
Murphy is a member of the House Pro-Life Caucus, and on Tuesday voted for legislation that would criminalise abortions after 20 weeks. He’s also been endorsed by LifePAC, and marched in the March for Life earlier this year.
In fact, on the very same day that he sent the text message to Edwards, January 24, he posted on Facebook that “moving forward, we will once again be committed to honouring life from the moment of conception onward.”
Since the report broke, Murphy and his office have both gone dead silent. Maybe they’ll use this time to consider the moral implications of enforcing restrictions on women’s reproductive health while hoping to benefit from the options that an abortion makes possible… or the pitfalls of being a motherfucking hypocrite. Either / or.
