Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images(WASHINGTON)– Pennsylvania Rep. Tim Murphy, a Republican who co-sponsored a 20-week abortion ban that passed in the House Tuesday, allegedly asked an extramarital lover to terminate her pregnancy, according to text message records acquired by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Shannon Edwards, 32, whom Murphy recently admitted to having an affair with, messaged the 65-year-old congressman after an anti-abortion statement was posted on his office’s Facebook account in January.
“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,” allegedly wrote Edwards in a text exchange that was a part of a number of documents obtained by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Murphy’s office had no comment when reached by ABC News.
A response from Murphy’s phone number allegedly 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.”
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the exchange was over “an unfounded pregnancy scare.”
Murphy has a record of supporting legislation to cut federal funding for abortion and Planned Parenthood, and co-sponsored the Life at Conception Act on Jan. 24, one day before the text exchange.
ABC News reached out to Edwards for comment but did not hear back.
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