When GOP congressman Scott DesJarlais (TN) was a doctor, he had sexual relationships with his patients. Despite being a “pro-life” advocate, he pressured women in his life to have abortions, including his ex-wife, who had two abortions while they were together.
Somehow, with the country currently much more aware of sexual abuse issues, DesJarlais has avoided public scrutiny. And he doesn’t dispute the claims either. The 53-year-old congressman said he paid the fine against him levied by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners in 2013 for his sexual misconduct with patients.
When the Daily Mail tried reaching out to the two patients the congressman had affairs with 20 years ago, neither wanted to comment.
“This happened nearly 20 years in the past,” said one of the patients, who was just 24 when they had their affair in 2000. “That’s where it needs to stay.”
But the court documents obtained by the Daily Mail show just how manipulative and unethical he was was. To the first patient, only slightly older, he prescribed the now-banned painkiller Darvocet. DesJarlais also brought her to Las Vegas and bought her an $875 watch.
The younger patient got something else from him—an abortion. “She said that I had her pregnant,’ DesJarlais said in evidence. ‘I never really believed it.” However, he still offered to take the young woman, who he called “a psycho” to Atlanta for an abortion.
His first wife, Susan Lohr, a Gulf War veteran, who he said he “supported” in her decision to have two abortions. The first one was while she was on an experimental hormone drug and “was not supposed to get pregnant,’ he testified. ‘There were potential risks.”
The second was “after she had gotten back from Desert Storm and things were not going well between us, and it was a mutual decision,” DesJarlais added.
‘I don’t think it was easy for either one of us,’ he said in court. “I think it was a very difficult and poor choice and I think that there are probably regrets both ways.”
However, now the remarried DesJarlais proclaims that he is ‘pro-life and proud of it’, and says ‘God has forgiven me.’
Nothing to see here, just do as I say, not as I do.
How does he know that God has forgiven him? Did God give him a sticker?
He got a gold star, or maybe a smiley face. He is so full of it.
Can’t imagine why this is in the atheist category. Kind of a normal story for Christians , lived one way and now has decided to go another route . Hopefully he has empathy for those who don’t believe the way he say he does now . What did the 875 dollar watch have anything to do with it ? And why badger the women that had abortions? I can’t imagine making that phone call @ hey did you have an abortion “?
He had sex with his “patents.” Come on… It’s the first sentence, people.
NO God Hasn’t!!!!!!!
Whew… Well, I guess he’s pretty relieved about that. Now he should pay for optometrists and psychological counseling to help the women who fucked this disgusting, skin headed swine.
Please, TN, stop voting for people like this who are just con artists!
Al Franken stepped down for less. This guy should be brought up on ethics charges, have his medical license revoked if it’s sill active. God may have forgiven him, but the government and its citizens haven’t. Justice has not been done.
This seems to be a recurring story with sanctimonious Republican “pro-lifers.” I believe in kharma.
I’m confused, if God can forgive you for having an abortion, then what’s the big deal?
I guess God forgives when those paying for an abortion, but not for having one.
This man writes that “it was a poor choice” but God has forgiven him. CHOICE is the operative word here, you ninny. Get out of government.
Another right wing religious hypocrite. This is the norm for the republican party.
Pretty much!
Did Jesus not say that He despised Hypocrits and would like to vomit them from his mouth?. I feel the same. Christians do not have to forgive, either. God will, maybe, when this man dies. I imagine he is on the wait list. Mamacita
Which christian deity do you pray to congressman Scott DesJarlais (TN)? The christian god, MONEY, or Satan? Amerikan christians have the right to know!
How convenient is it to cozy up to a belief that washes away your sins, time and time again?
We use to have a democrat here in the 4th district. Now we have this guy. What an embarrassment. I had to unsub from his FB page with all the red meat he was throwing out. Hope we get rid of him come next Nov…
DesJarlais’ peccadilloes have been known since he first stood for election over 6 years ago. PACs blared about them in TV commercials, they were bandied about in TN newspaper opinion columns, you name it. I know this. I was there at the time. Just like Roy Moore, those people didn’t give a shit. He had the magical *R* after his name and they voted for him anyway.
I am someone that wholeheartedly believes that everyone is brought up by their own family values. It’s the values – that makes a person do the things they believe is right. In my religion, most believe that it’s GOD love for all life – and believe in the Pro Life movement. However, I think that a woman has her own right to determine what is best for her and unborn child. Government or Religion – can not dictate the life a woman lives and her decision for the life of her child. We can all pray and guide a woman in her contemplation, but we can not dictate her final decision – if we are not part the solution to guarantee that her child will be safely born and cared for in a nation – where anyone using “medicated narcotic drugs” can easily have access to a gun and kill their children and entire families at a blink of an eye. We have seen so many mass killings of children in schools and public places – that our children are never safe – so why bring them into a world that would only have them suffer – with so much hatred and early deaths. We all have no guarantees for the safety of our Children – so what gives us the right to punish a woman to make her own determination of ending her pregnancy – if she can not care for her own child. I find it very disturbing – that we can judge women for the irresponsible actions causing a pregnancy – when they are not ready to have a child – but then we can not change laws because people love their NRA blood money too much to guarantee the safety of many innocent children being shot at by Narcotic medicated people in our society. Smart women know that using contraceptives is one solution, but it’s never 100% guarantee. Women and men – will always have sex – and sometimes they do not mutually agree – so why can’t a woman do what is right for her – if nobody is willing to guarantee the caring for her child entire life.