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To The Friend Voting For Trump Because He's Pro-Life

How do you define "Pro-Life"?

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To The Friend Voting For Trump Because He's Pro-Life
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First, I will acknowledge that we are approaching this issue from completely different perspectives. Because I am Pro-Choice, I know that we will, most likely, not agree, but I am merely asking you to consider a few things about the presidential candidate you are choosing to support.

The issue of abortion is an important one to you, so you feel obligated to support the candidate that is representative of the way you feel about the issue. I can respect that. I agree that it is important to vote for the candidate with whom you most align on issues that are important to you. But is this the only issue that matters to you? I have a hard time believing that you truly feel that a man like Donald Trump represents the things in which you believe.

My first concern is that Mr. Trump has not always shared your values on being Pro-Life, and it makes me hard pressed to believe he has genuinely adopted them now. In 1999, he was quoted as being "very Pro-Choice." Though now he claims to be evolved, it seems suspicious to me that we have not heard much of this evolution until he decided to run for the presidency on the Republican ticket. Maybe I'm just cynical, but it seems like a clever manipulation tactic to me. If this is such an important issue to you, don't you want to be more secure that the candidate feels one way or another about it?

Now, my second and biggest concern is that I do not believe that Mr. Trump is truly "Pro-Life." Please tell me how you define "Pro-Life." I think that being against abortion does not speak broadly enough about your ideas of preserving life; you are simply "Anti-Abortion." Donald Trump may be Anti-Abortion, but I will argue all day that he is not Pro-Life.

Trump is not Pro-Black Lives. He obviously does not understand the point of the Black Lives Matter movement and the idea of police reform, saying that "law and order must be restored." Rather than acknowledge that there is racial bias deeply imbedded in our system, he wants to give our police more power, rather than educating them and changing police training. He also supports the antiquated and racial-profiling-fueled idea of stop-and-frisk.

Trump is not Pro-Syrian Refugee's Lives. Trump does not want to let any refugees into the United States. While I can agree that we have our own issues to handle, and there are possibilities that we will be at risk, to turn our backs on Syrian Refugees is selfish and to ignore marginalized people, as a wealthy country with relatively few issues.

Trump is not Pro-Convict Lives. Trump is in favor of the death penalty. If you're going to say that you're Pro-Life, at what point do you draw the line? Why are convicts' lives suddenly not worth preserving?

Trump is not Pro-Women's Lives. Trump is known for bashing breastfeeding mothers, sexualizing women and placing their value on their physical attributions, and, of course, claiming her can do whatever he wants to women because he is rich and famous. You know, "grab them by the p****."

Trump is not Pro-Latino Lives. He has infamously called Mexicans "criminals," "rapists," and "killers." He blames them, along with African Americans, for the violent crimes in this country, and he even threw Jorge Ramos out of a press conference for asking questions about Trump's position on issues.

Assuming that Trump is full-force Pro-Life, I have to question whether those lives would matter to him anymore once they were born and fell into any of the categories listed above.

I understand that you are Pro-Life because of your deep Christian convictions, and I respect that; do you think Trump is the candidate Jesus would endorse? Jesus asks us to love our neighbor. Last time I checked, my neighbors were not only rich, white, Republican, Christian men. We can not ban abortion, then neglect the lives of those born who do not fit into a neat little box that sits inside our comfort zone.

If Anti-Abortion policies are that important to you, I can't change your mind. I can ask you to consider the value of those lives to you after they are born. Consider if voting for Trump is truly a vote for the candidate who values life.

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