{"id":183800,"date":"2012-11-15T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/15\/your-republican-profile-in-morality-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2012-11-15T21:05:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T02:05:00","slug":"your-republican-profile-in-morality-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/15\/your-republican-profile-in-morality-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Republican Profile in Morality of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Representative, medial doctor, and tea-baggers Scott DesJarlais, is a Republican who ran on family values.<\/p>\n

It’s not been revealed that he encouraged his wife and a lover to have abortions (yes, plural), and slept with his patients<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A decade before calling himself \u201ca consistent supporter of pro-life values,\u201d Tennessee physician and Republican U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais supported his ex-wife\u2019s decision to get two abortions before their marriage, according to the congressman\u2019s sworn testimony during his divorce trial.<\/span>

<\/span> Obtained by the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the couple\u2019s 2001 trial transcript also confirms DesJarlais had sexual relationships with at least two patients, three coworkers and a drug representative while he was chief of staff at Grandview Medical Center in Jasper, Tenn. During one affair with a female patient, DesJarlais prescribed her drugs, gave her an $875 watch and bought her a plane ticket to Las Vegas, records show.<\/span>

<\/span> DesJarlais spokesman Robert Jameson did not respond to requests for comment. The attorney for the congressman’s ex-wife said that at this point she does not have any comments to issue on her ex-husband’s testimony.<\/span>

<\/span> The transcript corroborates accounts given to the Times Free Press in October by one of the patients who had a sexual relationship with DesJarlais. The newspaper continues to grant her anonymity, along with all the women due to the nature of the testimony.<\/span>

<\/span> DesJarlais, a family-values conservative who rode 2010\u2019s tea party wave to Washington, testified his ex-wife\u2019s earlier abortion stemmed from medical concerns.<\/span>

<\/span> \u201c… [She] was on an experimental drug called Lupron and was not supposed to have gotten pregnant. There were potential risks. It was a therapeutic,\u201d he said.<\/span>

<\/span> DesJarlais backed a second abortion after she returned from a military stint in Saudi Arabia a few years before they married in 1995.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Except for the whole f%$#ing your patients thing (a violation of medical ethics), as a liberal, I support his right to practice his lifestyle.  He has the right to be a pig felching scumbag.<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, Scott DesJarlais thinks that the government should prevent people from practicing his lifestyle.<\/p>\n

As Stephen Colbert notes, “Republican Congressman Scott DesJarlais stands adamantly against abortion except when it endangers the political life of the father.”<\/p>\n

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