Those who judge women’s private decisions should face personal scrutiny – but preserving the privacy of their female partners must advance firstOf the many outrageous things presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said to the media,theres one line in particular that I just can’t get out of my head. When New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd asked Trump whether he had ever been involved with a woman who had an abortion, the Republican frontrunner offered a telling refusal: “Such an interesting question … So what’s your next question?”It’s not tough to suppose why Trump – who has left voicemails about “getting more pussy” than Tucker Carlson and defended the size of his penis in a presidential debate – would shy absent from the question. It may be the same reason that he told MSNBC host Chris Matthews that women should be “punished” for procuring illegal abortions but the men who impregnated them should not.
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Source: theguardian.com