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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Carter Sherman

‘Guys go where their buddies are’: the young men recruiting each other to fight for abortion rights

“Oh, no, no, I think you’re trying to get in contact with my wife.”

That’s what a man in Florida recently told an activist who knocked on his door to talk about abortion rights. But the man was wrong. The activist, who represented a group called Men4Choice, was there to talk to him, because the group is dedicated to getting more men who support abortion rights involved in the fight for them.

“They have to get off the sidelines,” said Dewayne Martin, the youth organizing director for Men4Choice, who relayed the activist’s account to the Guardian. “They have to become the foot soldiers of this movement.”

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