Pro-life US congressman ‘urged mistress to have abortion’

Tim Murphy says he will not seek re-election as scandal breaks days after he voted to restrict abortions

Republican congressman Tim Murphy
Republican congressman Tim Murphy, who finds himself at the centre of a scandal
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An anti-abortion Republican congressman has announced will not seek re-election at the end of his term, after it emerged that he urged a woman with whom he was having an affair to have an abortion.

Congressman Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania made the decision a day after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published text messages between Murphy and Shannon Edwards, his mistress.

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