Hi, my name is Catherine.
I live in Virginia, but
North Carolina is home.
I'm a lifelong Republican.
I voted for the first time in college for
Bush 41, and in every subsequent election
cycle, the Republican ticket until 2016.
I voted a conservative third party
knowing full well that the candidate
had no chance whatsoever to win.
For what it's worth, I am also a
board certified emergency physician
practicing for more than 20 years.
I am an air force veteran and the military
spouse of a retired United States Marine.
Many others on this site have discussed
a multiple troubling issues with
the current  president, and I don't
believe I can improve on those.
But I haven't heard a lot
about the pro-life issue.
And then boy, I get it.
I get it why somebody might feel deeply
conflicted based upon that issue.
So that's what I want to talk about.
To me, core of the pro-life ethic
is respect for human life and
a fundamental belief that all
human life has intrinsic value.
Jesus exhorts us to be wise.
In Matthew 10:16.
He says "Behold I am sending you
out as sheep in the midst of wolves.
So be as wise as serpents
and as innocent as doves."
And I think what he was trying to say
was I don't need fools to follow me.
And I'm tired of being played for a fool.
Roe v.
Wade has been the law of this land
for more than 45 years, and it is
simply not going to be overturned.
The recent Louisiana case was
decided five to four, but if you
look at the dissent, three of the
four affirmed both Roe and Planned
Parenthood versus Casey as good law.
The only question on Louisiana
case was whether it violated the
precedence of those two rulings.
But, hey, let's go there.
Let's go there.
Roe v.
Wade is overturned, and the
issue reverts to the states.
Still no woman in this country is
going to be more than a day's drive
from somewhere that abortion is legal.
And Planned Parenthood can buy buses.
I'm no longer going to have my vote
held hostage to an empty promise
of something that will not happen.
And even if it did, would not
substantively affect the abortion rate.
This president has shown his colors
when it comes to life issues.
He didn't care about the lives of
troops slaughtered for bounties.
He didn't care about the lives
of children ripped from parents'
arms and placed in jail cages.
That is not respect for human life.
And if this is your
touchstone issue, get angry.
Get angry that your conscience
has been used to help prop up
that which is unconscionable.
Additionally, if you trust this lying
liar who lies to actually nominate
justices that you would like to see on
the bench once freed from the constraints
of needing to be reelected, I would just
argue that is not as wise as a serphant.
And you had to know that an emergency
physician wasn't going to make
a video and not talk about these
staggering death toll of COVID-19.
Which, as of today, we're going
to go over 165,000 Americans dead.
I don't know how you're pro-life and
look at the administration and in
particular, Donald Trump's response
to this pandemic, and his callous
disregard for the lives of Americans
in particular, those over the age of
65 who compromise 75% of the deaths.
This does not conform to a prolife ethic
and his response is, "it is what it is."
If there was ever an issue, a
challenge, a crisis that any decent
leader should be able to effortlessly
rally the entire country to defeat.
I can't think of anything more ideal
than a deadly microbe that is targeting
people's parents and grandparents.
As it is, we're the
laughingstock of the globe.
He has politicized something as simple
and effective as wearing a mask.
He has divided friends,
families, churches.
He has divided the entire country to the
point we cannot come together and fight
as one people against a deadly microbe
that is killing grandparents and parents.
And I said, I was going to stick
to the pro-life issue and not talk
about things like national security.
But I cannot imagine that our enemies
have not noticed divided we are.
So my vote is going to be for Joe Biden.
He'll support mothers and children.
He'll work to get the COVID pandemic
under control, and he'll work to
unite the country so collectively
we can do both of those things.
