The Lindsay Clancy backlash
Online calls to repeal the 19th Amendment, which grants women the right to vote, surged in mid-September following the high-profile trial of Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts mother who admitted to killing her three children but whose murder trial ended in a mistrial after 11 of 12 jurors favored a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict, citing her postpartum psychosis defense. The calls, largely from accounts identifying as conservative, followed viral attention to demonstrations by mostly female Clancy supporters outside the Massachusetts courthouse, who argued the case highlighted a lack of understanding of postpartum depression; critics online seized on the support as evidence that, in the words of one X post, 'women are willing to even defend a child killer,' with posts explicitly calling to 'Repeal the 19th.'
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