Pro-Life Evangelicals Better Off With Hillary Clinton, Christian Writer Rachel Held Evans Says

By Samuel Smith, Deputy Managing Editor Thursday, August 04, 2016

Rachel Held Evans, author of 'A Year of Biblical Womanhood.' — Rachel Held Evans, author of "A Year of Biblical Womanhood." | (Photo: Twitter/Rachel Held Evans)

While Evans believes that Clinton might be more in touch with the goals of pro-life Christians, Quigley detests that claim.

"Hillary Clinton's position on abortion couldn't be more extreme and out of touch with pro-life Christians," Quigley wrote. "She has said plainly that 'the unborn person does not have constitutional rights,' and that she supports the status quo of legal abortion on-demand, up until the moment of birth."

Although Evans claims that neither party can lay claim to act consistently on pro-life ethic, Timothy P. O'Malley, the director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, explained in an op-ed published by Aleteia that it was the 2016 Democratic Party platform's call to repeal longstanding bans on taxpayer-funded abortions that forced him to finally leave his party.

O'Malley, who has an adopted son, wrote that the Democratic Party has been too focused on an abortion agenda to advocate for the reasonable approach of adoption.

"I refuse to belong to a political party in which ideologies of death have become so central to the life of the party that a consistent approach to human dignity is deemed unwelcomed by party leaders," O'Malley explained. "There will be no adoption talk, no prominent address by a pro-life Democrat, because it goes against the present death-dealing orthodoxy of the Democrats."

In an op-ed published by the Los Angeles Times, Kristen Day, the executive director of Democrats for Life, and Charles Camosy, an associate professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University, argued that the 2016 Democratic Party platform "betrays millions of the party faithful."

"In the 2008 presidential primary campaign, candidate Hillary Clinton said abortion should be safe, legal and rare. 'And by rare,' Clinton emphasized, 'I mean rare,'" Day and Camosy recalled. "Yet her 2016 platform team has approved provisions that make access to abortion crucial to the well-being of every single person on the planet."

Day and Camosy insist that the party's radical position on abortion is causing a rift within the party.

"The Democratic Party's abortion stances have already caused many to leave the party, and many more will drop out because of the platform wording," they wrote. "The percentage of extreme abortion rights advocates is increasing in the party, but only because the total number of Democrats has shrunk to its lowest level since the Hoover administration."