How Abortion Access is Galvanizing Men

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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We’ve been hearing about women mobilizing to protect reproductive rights but so are an increasing number of men. In 2019 fewer than one in ten men said that abortion rights are a top voting issue; now the figure is 1 in 5, according to new polling. The group Men4Choice says it’s mobilizing men who were once “passively pro-choice” as many have come to witness their partners’ struggles to access reproductive care. Are you a man who’s concerned about abortion rights this election? Guests: Amanda Becker, Washington Correspondent, The 19th Oren Jacobson, co-founder and executive director, Men4Choice Carter Sherman, reproductive health and justice reporter, The Guardian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:26.6	More men say abortion is a top voting issue for them,
1:30.4	one in five this year, compared to one in 10 in 2019, according to a Washington Post ABC poll.
1:36.9	The Post reports more men are speaking out as they've seen partners go through harrowing experiences
1:41.6	trying to get care for pregnancies that end up threatening
1:44.4	their health.
1:45.8	We take a closer look at the issues driving men and those unable to become pregnant to mobilize
1:50.6	for abortion access two years after the overturning of Roe and after more than a dozen states
1:56.0	have passed bans.
1:57.5	We'll also hear how it's affecting the presidential election. Forum is next after this news.
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