'Pro-life evangelicals should vote for Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump,' says Christian writer

Christian author Rachel Held Evans believes pro-life Christians should vote for pro-choice Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton instead of Republican Donald Trump who claims to be pro-life.

The author of The New York Times' best-selling non-fiction e-book "A Year of Biblical Womanhood" shared on her blog Tuesday her views on this fall's presidential elections, particularly on the aspect of abortion.

"Donald Trump is not your pro-life savior. Of course, neither is Hillary Clinton," wrote the 35-year-old Christian columnist and blogger.

However, Evans believes and argued that Clinton has "better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump" and that the former First Lady is "far better positioned to keep the abortion rate at the record low."

The presidential candidates' position on abortion reverted to the forefront of this year's presidential campaign after recent reports surfaced that Tim Kaine, Clinton's vice presidential pick and a Catholic Jesuit who once publicly professed to be a long-time supporter of the Hyde Amendment, agreed to flip-flop on the Medicaid abortions issue.

Pro-life advocates celebrated the legislation of the Hyde Amendment in 1976 as it rules out abortion among the health services provided for by Medicaid.

Evans asserted that providing women the choice of abortion leads to decreased abortion incidences in the U.S. She cited that the country reached its lowest cases of abortion since 1973 under President Barack Obama's pro-choice administration.

The communications director for Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life group, disagreed with Evans' and said that the drop in abortion rates resulted not from the pro-choice policies of the current administration but rather as a result of more people becoming pro-life.

"Hillary Clinton's position on abortion couldn't be more extreme and out of touch with pro-life Christians," Mallory Quigley told The Christian Post in an email.

"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."