UPDATED Oct. 5: Rep. Tim Murphy first announced that he will not seek re-election. House Speaker Paul Ryan intervened, making it clear that Murphy will resign near end of October

There is no disputing the fact that Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Tim Murphy engaged in an extramarital affair with Pittsburgh forensic psychologist Shannon Edwards. The husband of Shannon Edwards sought to depose Murphy in his own divorce action.

Today the Pittsburgh Gazette dropped a new bombshell about Murphy, in regard to his response to a text from Edwards taking him to task for an anti-abortion statement posted on his public Facebook page.

"And you have zero issue posting your pro-life stance all over the place when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just last week when we thought that was one of the options," Shannon Edwards, a forensic psychologist in Pittsburgh with whom the congressman admitted last month to having a relationship, wrote to Mr. Murphy on Jan. 25, in the midst of an unfounded pregnancy scare.

A text from Mr. Murphy’s cell phone number that same day in response says, "I get what you say about my March for life messages. I've never written them. Staff does them. I read them and winced. I told staff don't write any more. I will."

Reality is that Murphy is regularly lauded by the Family Research Council for his stand on family values generally and abortion specifically. The Congressman is endorsed by LifePAC, an opponent of all abortion rights, and is a proud member of the House Pro-Life Caucus.

The Gazette did not receive the tip from Ms. Edwards, who refused to comment on the text messages revelation.

Also revealed in the documents obtained by the Post Gazette is a six-page memo to Mr. Murphy alleged to be written by his chief of staff, Susan Mosychuk, which described a hostile workplace that generally existed in a state of "terror' created by the Congressman.

The June 8 memo, titled “Office Conduct and Behavior: Harassment/Legal Compliance,” says that there had been an "ongoing and ever more pronounced pattern of sustained inappropriate behavior" from the congressman, writes the Post Gazette. Ms. Mosychuk was not available for comment, nor was Carly Atchison, the congressman's communications director.