"Knowing many of my pro-life friends feel torn between voting for an unpopular but highly qualified pro-choice candidate in Hillary Clinton and an incompetent narcissist who poses a unique threat to our American democracy in Donald Trump, I'd like to make a proposal:

You should vote for Hillary Clinton.

And I'd like to suggest that voting for a pro-choice candidate in this election, or any election, need not overburden your conscience.

Here's why.

In the eight years since we've had a pro-choice president, the abortion rate in the US has dropped to its lowest since 1973. I believe the best way to keep this trend going is not to simply make it harder for women to terminate unwanted pregnancies but to create a culture with fewer unwanted pregnancies to begin with.

Data suggests progressive social policies that make health care and child care more affordable, make contraception more accessible, alleviate poverty, and support a living wage do the most to create such a culture, while countries where abortion is simply illegal see no change in the abortion rate."

1) Voting pro-choice is not the same as voting for abortion
2) Criminalizing abortion won't necessarily reduce abortions
3) Pro-life advocates should support, rather than oppose, efforts to help low-income families care for their children
4) If we want to dramatically reduce the abortion rate in this country, we must support efforts to make contraception more accessible and affordable.

she spells it out in more detail@rachelheldevans.com
Rachel Held Evans is a New York Times best-selling author whose books include Faith Unraveled (2010), A Year of Biblical Womanhood (2012), and Searching for Sunday (2015). Hailing from Dayton, Tennessee - home of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 - she writes about faith, doubt and life in the Bible Belt.


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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill