Evangelical Blogger Rachel Held Evans: Pro-Lifers Should Vote Hillary
Author and blogger Rachel Held Evans calls herself pro-life. She says she has never publicly endorsed a presidential candidate – until now. Evans changed that when she endorsed Clinton on Tuesday.
In a lengthy blog post, Evans made several arguments for her case. In a nutshell, she claimed that Clinton’s social policies on childcare, healthcare, poverty and contraception will reduce abortion rates more than pro-life legislators ever will.
She wrote:
While I’ve written in the past about feeling caught between the pro-life and pro-choice camps, I’ve never used my platform to endorse a presidential candidate. But as so many others have said, this year is different. 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...