Herschel Walker admits to writing $700 check but denies it was for abortion

The Georgia Republican candidate for the Senate claims he has no idea' what the money was used for

Confronted on Sunday with receipts that appear to prove he paid for the abortion of a woman he once dated, staunch anti-abortionist Herschel Walker - Georgia's Republican candidate for the US Senate - had a ready response: It's a lie."

Walker is competing for a Senate seat considered pivotal to determining which party controls the chamber in the 8 November midterms, but his campaign has spent weeks under fire after reports emerged earlier this month that Walker - who has publicly argued that abortion should be illegal nationwide without exceptions - sent the unnamed woman money to end her pregnancy.