Harris campaign sees opportunity to reach some male voters on reproductive rights
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Marcia Ruberg is old enough to remember what the country was like for women before the Supreme Court established a federal right to abortion in 1973, and the nearly 50 years that followed.
Marcia Ruberg is old enough to remember what the country was like for women before the Supreme Court established a federal right to abortion in 1973, and the nearly 50 years that followed. On Sunday, the 69-year-old retired psychologist, whose shirt read “Vote Like it’s 1973,” joined about 100 voters at a stop on the Kamala Harris campaign’s bus tour supporting reproductive rights. Her husband, Gary Goldberg, was by her side. “I’m here to support my wife and everybody else that deserves the right to have freedom of their reproductive rights,” said Goldberg, a 70-year-old retired computer software developer. Abortion access has long been viewed as an electoral issue that primarily motivates, and affects, women. But Democrats hope that the impact of the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision — which was made possible by Trump-appointed conservative justices — and the wave of state abortion restrictions that followed, has created an opportunity to rally more men behind the cause. The goal is not to persuade large swaths of men, but to broaden the range of people who see reproductive rights as an issue that touches their own lives. Even small gains — through a combination of driving up turnout among Democratic men and persuading some moderates and independents — could make a difference in states like Pennsylvania, where the presidential race will likely be decided by a razor thin margin. The Harris campaign has tied the issue to a larger fight over freedom and utilized surrogates to share their personal stories of how abortion bans threatened the lives of pregnant women and their ability to conceive in the future. Many of those speakers have been men, from vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and second gentleman Doug Emhoff to the spouses of women who have shared their experiences.
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