Pro-Life GOP US Congressman Demanded Mistress — His Patient — Get Abortion
Scott DesJarlais, a Tea Party Republican U.S. Congressman from Tennessee, who is also a medical doctor, had an affair with a patient while still married to his wife, then demanded his mistress get an abortion, according to reports, which also label him “a serial philanderer.”
The hypocrisy is absolutely astounding. Scott DesJarlais, 48, and an Episcopalian, is a medical doctor, who was married (he is now divorced and re-married), had a affair with a woman who was his patient, and pressured her and demanded she get an abortion. DesJarlais, in his campaign video, below, is a self-described, “conservative, pro-life doctor.”
According to the Huffington Post, court records state that DesJarlais and his first wife at one point had an open marriage. But for DesJarlais to run for and elected to the U.S. Congress on a conservative and pro-life platform claiming he believes all life is, in his words, “sacred,” is beyond the pale.
“All life should be cherished and protected,” his campaign website, which is loaded with images of DesJarlais and his family, and his Facebook page shows a photo of him standing with Mitt Romney.
His campaign issues pages states, “We are pro-life.” The campaign website, which strangely uses the third person, also, ironically, states, “Being a family doctor brings you very close to your community. It adds, ”Marriage is traditionally defined as being between a man and a woman and we feel this distinction is important to the wellbeing of the American family.” DesJarlais is on his second marriage.
The Huffington Post, which reports that court divorce documents “included allegations that he held a gun in his own mouth for hours in one instance and that he ‘dry fired’ a gun outside his wife’s bedroom in another.” The Huffington Post obtained the transcripts of the telephone call Congressman DesJarlais made to his mistress/patient, noting that the “transcript and other revelations from court documents paint a more damning picture of a man who was a serial philanderer willing to push one of his lovers — whom he met as a patient with a foot problem — to terminate a pregnancy, even when he suspected he was the father.”
