Democratic men effectively mute on abortion

Despite his fervent advocacy for all things abortion -related, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz remains a mere mouthpiece for the Democratic Party ’s agenda.

In Vice President Kamala Harris ’s campaign for “reproductive freedom,” Walz has emerged as one of her most valuable assets, given his consistent pro-abortion record and his own experience with fertility treatments.

Walz’s actions, such as his bill-signings , say far more about abortion than he does. The Minnesota governor has made countless rounds on the campaign trail vowing to protect abortion, and then “mind [his] own business” — but that is about all the detail he can give on the matter of abortion, not because he cannot comment on the subject, but because his party would not want it.

Abortion has long been framed as a women’s issue . The phrase “no uterus, no opinion” can be found at any given abortion rally or women’s march. It is not surprising, then, when male abortion advocates hammer on the same few words along the lines of “respecting a woman’s right to control her body.”

But consider in vitro fertilization — or IVF — which, by the same standards that categorize abortion, is itself a women’s issue, if not more so. Walz has spoken at length about IVF (and has since changed the rhetoric to IUI, or intrauterine insemination), sharing about his and his wife’s attempts at fertility treatments ahead of conceiving their two children. The media laud Walz for his openness in describing the experience, especially for highlighting his emotional tumult through the whole thing.

This sort of anecdote from a man would not carry much weight for most pro-abortion women, yet Walz’s focus on his own stake in an IVF attempt is branded as “central” to Harris’s campaign.

Even the most active pro-abortion men, such as Doug Emhoff, husband of Kamala Harris, keep their distance from describing their direct stake in an abortion. Emhoff has gone as far as to note that abortion access affects men’s “ability to plan their lives,” and has echoed the slippery-slope concern of “what’s next” on the freedom chopping block.

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Still, these prominent pro-abortion men like Emhoff and Walz stick to abortion as a freedom — they cannot speak of it as a direct “good,” from their perspective, that might have real, intimate emotional effects on them. There is no “joy” that they can find in it themselves.

For the Democratic Party, “men talking about abortion is important ‘almost regardless of the literal words they are saying.’ ” As such, Democrats are inconsistent with the concessions they make to hearing from men on “women’s issues.” Aversion to hearing from men on abortion does not have to do with their lack of personal knowledge: It is a tactic. They use it to defend what they know is otherwise indefensible.