By CAT MURPHYCapital News ServiceHYATTSVILLE, Md. — Aditya Pande isn’t a woman. But the women around him, he said, showed him why he needed to vote to protect the right to abortion.“It’s a matter of autonomy, of course,” said Pande, a 28-year-old registered Democrat from Hyattsville, before voting yes on Question 1 Tuesday morning. “As a man, I’ve been helped on this issue by various women in my life.” Pande, a graduate student at the University of Maryland, said these women shifted his perspective on the reality of reproductive freedom.“For most women, they take this choice very seriously, and they feel that to take that choice away from them would be a massive infringement on their natural rights and their autonomy,” he said. “So that’s why I’m voting for abortion protections.”He reasoned that the threat of federal abortion restrictions necessitated enshrining these protections in Maryland’s state constitution.Lawmakers may try to “enshrine the reverse thing federally,” Pande said. “It’s the only rational response to what the other folks are doing.”