We have learned via the Ogle Mole Network that Eric Roberts – a pro-life Republican State House candidate for HD 83 – allegedly paid for the abortion of a woman he impregnated in 1988.
According to Shannon Mantrom of Austin, Texas, she and Roberts had a lengthy "friends w/ benefits" style affair, when they were both students at Southern Methodist University in Dallas during the 1980s.
It ended when she got pregnant, Roberts paid for her abortion, and Roberts’ girlfriend at the time— who knew Shannon — accidentally found out about it.