Abortion-rights groups are courting Latino voters through door-knocking and Spanish-language ads.
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Like other Americans, Latinos have an array of personal feelings and connections to the issue that can be impacted by religion, culture, country of origin and other things, organizers say. But their views are often misunderstood and oversimplified by people who assume they are all Catholic and, therefore,from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about two-thirds of Hispanic Americans think abortion should be legal in all or most cases. About 4 in 10 U.S.
Living United for Change in Arizona, or LUCHA, moved the measure to the top of its canvassing script because voters kept bringing up the issue. LUCHA campaigns to low-income Latino, Black and Indigenous voters. Sutherland said her group uses bilingual phone banking and canvassing efforts, hosted a bilingual campaign launch rally, hired a Latino outreach manager and holds weekly Spanish-language meetings to discuss strategy.
For Latino men especially, it has been helpful to include messaging about limiting government decisions in family and health care decisions, several Florida organizers said. Alyssa Sanchez, a 23-year-old Mexican American who is Catholic, plans to vote for Arizona's measure. Her family members have been supportive of the issue as long as she could remember.
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