Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) voted Wednesday for a bill banning late-term abortions, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported on Friday.
DesJarlais, a former physician, voted for the ban despite allegedly pressuring his mistress and ex-wife to get abortions.
The bill would ban abortions after the twentieth week of pregnancy.
“Congressman DesJarlais was proud to vote in favor of this legislation,” his spokesman, Robert Jameson, told the Free Press.
Jameson also told the paper that DesJarlais had a “100 percent pro-life voting record” and that, during his five years in office, he ”has always advocated for pro-life values.”
“Despite a fixation by his political opponents on the details of a previous marriage from the 1990s, the people of Tennessee’s Fourth District have shown they care much more about the Congressman’s job in Washington than the details of a divorce,” Jameson continued.
Jameson would not tell the paper whether DesJarlais’ ex-wife had abortions after the 20-week cutoff.
Just another male trying to decide whats right for women.
Well it seems to me that those bible-humping, anti-gay, abortion-hating, backwater child/animal molesting hicks in the 4th Tenn, District, got a Representative just like they are!
So much for following the good book!
Ahhh, Rep. Abortions for me but not for thee. Seriously, what a gas-bag piece of shit this guy is. Sure, his voting record may be pro life but his life certainly isn’t. He’s the perfect poster boy for the republican party. Do as I say, not as I do.
Whatever happened to the physician’s adage “First, do no harm?”
The 2010 midterms - the gift of nonvoters that keeps on giving it very hard to all of us!