The Huffington Post has obtained the transcript of a 2000 phone call made by pro-life Congressman Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee, in which he pressured his former mistress to have an abortion.

In the call DesJarlais asks his lover to terminate a pregnancy.

“You told me you’d have an abortion, and now we’re getting too far along without one,” he tells the woman who he met when she was a patient of his. 

They also discuss whether he will accompany her to the clinic for the aforementioned procedure.

“You told me you would have time to go with me and everything,” she says.

“I said, if I could, I would, didn’t I? And I will try,” he replies. “If I can [find] time, you’re saying you still will?”