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Donald Trump, "protector" of women: This deeply sexist notion has a long legal history

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Donald Trump declared to women voters at a Pennsylvania rally: “You will no longer be abandoned, lonely or scared. You will be protected and I will be your protector.” Julian Zelizer : Trump ’s attempts at appealing to suburban women voters echo the language of gender inequality.

Zelizer says to legitimate this brand of manhood, there must be a woman (or women) to protect.

American Medical Association successfully campaigned to criminalize abortion procedures in the 1840s and 1850s .

The notion that American women require the protection of men come from an era in which women were the king’s subjects, not voting citizens of a republic.

Donald Trump , an admitted sexual predator who has been found liable for rape, claims to be a “protector” of women.

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