On Sunday, Fox News reported, “Calls to repeal women’s rights to vote are emerging from the online firestorm over the Lindsay Clancy trial, prompting Republican women to warn that the intraparty rhetoric could hurt the GOP.”
The fact that this article was published by Fox News was itself noteworthy. Press Baron Rupert Murdoch is one of the few remaining centers of power on the right who is strong enough to pick fights with Trump and his MAGA supporters. In recent years, Murdoch’s outlets have carved out a position for themselves as gatekeepers who work to protect the GOP brand from the most self-destructive impulses of MAGA. One recent example of this phenomenon is the decision to fire (or at least take off the air) the firebrand election denier Maria Bartiromo.
The Fox article was also significant for highlighting how the tragic case of Lindsay Clancy is being exploited by the hard right to justify misogyny. Clancy killed three of her children in 2023. Her legal defense was that she suffered from postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder. Eleven jurors voted to acquit Clancy based on this argument, but one juror resisted, leading to a mistrial.
Nine of the jurors who voted to acquit—presumably because they thought Clancy deserved pity rather than harsh punishment—were women; the lone holdout was a man. The hard right has seized on these facts to justify arguments that women are incapable of reason. The Fox article quoted a post on X that made a common argument: “The female jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial are speaking out about their deliberations and disagreements with the sole male holdout. The more they speak the better they make the case for repealing the 19th Amendment.”
It’s coming from a mentally ill white woman killing her kids and then being found not guilty.
While people assume that, perhaps, a mentally ill black man that kills his kids is sent to the chair.
If you say that “women experiencing severe post partum depression can’t be held liable for their actions but a man experiencing a mental break can”, then a double standard exists.
This double standard is being used by conservatives to support their broader goal of disenfranchising a democratic leaning voter block.
However, and I can’t stress it enough, this double standard DOES NOT EXIST. There are a number of cases in which men experiencing a mental break have murdered children, and then been found not guilty by reason of insanity.
https://www.kcrg.com/2026/07/15/father-found-not-guilty-young-sons-death-remain-mental-health-facility/
https://www.wcax.com/2026/07/30/man-found-not-guilty-murdering-6-year-old-boy-by-reasons-insanity-is-released-prison/
I will say this though… Men across the nation have never grouped up together to raise money for a mentally unwell man that killed children. That’s some weird ass shit, and perhaps why people are reacting so much to this lindsey clancy case. Women that go out of their way to support a child killer are… let’s just call them weird. Cuz that’s some weird ass shit. Ladies… stop it. Y’all fuckin around, gonna get the 19th amendment revoked… Stop it.