Final plea: Pro-life voters.
Yeah, this is a tough one. I don't envy y'all your choice; I truly don't. Any good and loving Christian is going to be very conflicted about Trump right now: on the one hand, Clinton will pick one and maybe two Supreme Court justices. On the other hand, Trump is a probably a child rapist and cruel and hateful and selfish and shortsighted and petty and thin-skinned and a pathological liar and monstrous in every definable way, but he claims he'll nominate pro-life judges.
Ok. Look. He's a LIAR, to the point where he flatly denies saying things he's just finished saying. He's consistently been pro-choice, up to "partial birth abortion" (which doesn't exist, by the way. No abortion provider in the country will perform that procedure on a live fetus. You can ask them!), and why not? Abortion on demand is convenient for a man who only cares about women inasmuch as he can use them as sexual playthings and brags about being an absent father. He was asked in the third debate if he was pro-life himself, and he waffled, saying he'd nominate pro-life judges.
But he won't. He has no reason whatsoever to keep his promises. He lies about everything else; why do you think he'll tell the truth about this? The Republican elite haven't been able to keep him in line so far, and once he's the Executive branch he'll have no reason to pretend to care about Christian morality, and he clearly doesn't share those morals, or any morals. Everything we've learned about his personality and business dealings is that he will exploit anyone for his own gain. Right now, he's exploiting your views to get your vote.
Let's talk about abortion, as it stands right now. Right now, at the end of Obama term #2, the US is currently at its lowest abortion rate since Roe v Wade. Not only that, but there are fewer unplanned pregnancies than there were in the Bush administration. This is partly because of access to contraceptives and partly because we've almost recovered from the recession, but also partly because teens are having sex later and having fewer partners than they were a decade ago. A lot of good trends are coming together.
Abortion is a symptom of other things: poor education, poor access to health care, and poverty are causal factors in unplanned pregnancy and abortion rates. Women with more options, more education, and health care access make better, healthier choices for themselves and their families. They have fewer unplanned pregnancies and fewer abortions. They have fewer partners. They have more stable families.
I understand that for you any abortion is one too many. But the disaster of a Trump presidency, which, assuming he follows through with anything he's promised, is liable to cause MORE economic hardship while also removing access to healthcare for many low-income Americans, is the kind of mess that INCREASES the unplanned pregnancy rate, and by extension the abortion rate. Banning abortion does reduce its frequency but not by as much as you would hope, and illegal abortions are widespread and dangerous.
And realize that a guy who wants to murder the families of terrorists is NOT pro-life. A guy who wants to use nukes on our enemies and spark a nuclear war is NOT pro-life. If you vote for him in the off-chance he'll pretend to be pro-life when it comes time to nominate a judge, you're trading a lot of other lives in exchange. He wants to turn away refugees, break apart immigrant families. He wants to kill the families of terrorists. He encourages people to shoot his opponent (4 American presidents have been assassinated) and threatens to jail her for crimes she has not, according to thorough investigations, committed. He wants people to beat protesters. He wants to commit war crimes. He wants to nuke countries. He wants to do these things EXPLICITLY. He says it out loud with his horrible mouth. He is telling you exactly what he is.
R v Wade is unlikely to be overturned, with or without his judge appointees. The fact is that most people in the US think there should be at least some access to legal abortion. You are not going to win it this way, with this man. Things are changing. Abortion rates are dropping. The culture is slowly shifting in ways that should give you hope.
This man is not your hope.
I know most of you cannot vote for Clinton, who is firmly pro-choice, and I understand that. My advice has been to write in John Kasich. Pro-life as the day is long and a nice guy. Clinton will probably win, but you won't have voted for the worst possible man who could be running for office, and you can try again next time around with a candidate who's NOT a fascist lunatic demagogue trying to actively undermine American democracy.
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