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Mike Erickson is a Republican running for Congress on a pro-life platform so it probably won't surprise you that he's paid for an abortion in his day. Or that she didn't really want to do it but he sort of made her, or that he didn't go to the clinic and left her bawling in the parking lot, or that he lied about it all later… etc., etc. The one interesting detail is that the Oregon Right To Life committee, which investigated the rumors back in 2006, called him out on changing his story. Read executive director Gayle Atteberry's letter denouncing Erickson by clicking douchebag's face. Note how she manages to muster a sense of shock at a pro-life politician's hypocrisy that somehow eludes us! [Oregonian]