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Vote Pro-Life?

How can I vote life first if there are no pro-life candidates?

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Vote Pro-Life?
Pierson Rogers

With only 70 days until the election, our two main presidential candidates are doing everything they can to elicit votes. There are a few reasons I can see myself voting for both candidates, but a million reasons why I do not want to see either of them in office. With all this confusion, I am trying to tell myself, "Just vote pro-life." Making America pro-life again is a huge dream of mine, so it should only seem right that I vote for the candidate who supports my dream.

However, there are no pro-life candidates. Really.

First we have Donald Trump. He claims to be our real pro-life candidate. He says that he does not believe in abortion and promises to install a pro-life judge. His promise is amazing, actually. It would be so much easier for pro-life legislation to pass and court cases to be won if we had Donald Trump on our side.

But on the other hand, Donald Trump is a huge supporter of the death penalty. Studies have been done to prove that capital punishment is not a deterrent, but Trump has vocalized that he does not care about the studies. In conclusion, while Trump seems to be the only pro-life candidate, he still does not stand behind the entire pro-life movement.

Second, we have Hillary Clinton. The Democratic Party, as a whole, announced that they would try and bring an end to the cruel punishment of the death penalty. But Hillary does not agree with them. She would like to keep it around as an option for certain cases.

Hillary Clinton is also a supporter of abortion and intends on forcing all of America to stand behind her. As of right now, there is a policy that allows the federal government to pay for certain abortion cases, including those pregnancies from rape, incest, and cases when the mother’s life is at risk if she continues carrying the baby. Under Hillary, this policy would be shut down and tax money would be used as funding. All of America would be paying for these abortions, including pro-life citizens, who obviously do not think they are morally correct.

We have two other candidates, too. Gary Johnson, Libertarian, and Jill Stein of the Green Party. Both candidates are anti-capital punishment but pro-abortion.

I know there are more pro-life topics that could be examined, but abortion and the death penalty are two of the most controversial ones and I chose to focus on them.

Now, I still do not know who to vote for. The politicians have gone so far, taking extreme positions and changing what they believe at heart just for the support of voters. In the process, they have created a huge group of confused people, left to vote for someone that they don’t even really want to win.

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