Democrats Hope to Rally More Men Around Reproductive Rights

With the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Democrats are aiming to broaden support for reproductive rights by engaging men in the conversation. The campaign focuses on framing abortion access as a matter of individual freedom and family impact, highlighting personal stories and emphasizing the potential consequences for fathers, husbands, and spouses.

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 . Her husband, Gary Goldberg, was by her side.

Pro-Harris outside groups have made abortion an even more significant share of their messaging — of the almost $90 million that Democratic outside groups have spent on broadcast TV since President Joe Biden dropped out, nearly $40 million has gone to ads referencing abortion. Republicans, by contrast, have totally avoided abortion in presidential advertising. We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly.

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