Michelle Obama makes a plea for women’s health care for men at a Michigan convention

Kalamazoo – Former First Lady Michelle Obama urged men not to sit out the polls or mark a “protest vote” against Vice President Kamala Harris at the ballot box, warning them that the possibility of having other limits reproductive health will affect them as much as their wives. and daughters.

Obama spent the better part of his nearly 40-minute speech at the Wings Event Center in Kalamazoo explaining the impact of the United States Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade has been in states with strict abortion laws and warned of further interference with reproductive rights under the second. The Trump presidency.

He weighed his message against the possibility that male voters would vote for former President Donald Trump, a third-party candidate or not vote at all in the presidential race, and urged them not to “ignore our problems.”

“Your anger is misplaced,” Obama said. “If we don’t get this election right, your wife, your daughter, your mother, we as women will be the victims of your wrath.”

Before arriving at the Kalamazoo conference, Harris stopped at a doctor’s office near Portage to meet with health care providers and medical students to discuss threats to reproductive rights.

Michigan voters in 2022 approved a constitutional amendment that enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution and largely removed abortion decisions from the hands of state lawmakers. But Democrats have argued on the campaign trail that a federal ban would defeat those constitutional provisions.