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26 Feb 2026
Anti-suffragists argued that women would lose legal protections and provisions if they gained the right to vote.

They said, we're going to lose a lot of the protection and provision that we currently enjoy. So for example, in the state of New York in the 1800s, as a woman entering a marriage, if you had money, if you had an inheritance that came with you when you got married, if your husband cheated on you or left or divorced you, he couldn't take any of that. Your inheritance was protected from your husband leaving and taking it. And only men could be held responsible for debt. And there was something called breadwinner laws that the courts, it was like a systemic law. It wasn't like one specific law. It was like a whole legal framework that said, look, women have to raise kids and be pregnant and have babies. So we have to hold men responsible for financially taking care of women and children. So women couldn't be thrown into a debtor's prison. They couldn't be held legally liable for repaying a loan or anything like that.