Lindsay Clancy Mistrial Ignites Calls From Conservatives to Repeal Women’s Right to Vote

The fallout from Lindsay Clancy‘s mistrial has taken a political turn.

According to a Sunday, September 13 report from Fox News Digital, calls to repeal the 19th Amendment, which ensures women’s right to vote, are being echoed from within the Republican Party after 11 of the 12 jurors favored a not guilty verdict by reason of insanity in the case of the 36-year-old Massachusetts mother, who was charged with the murder of her three children.

As Globe previously reported, the legal proceedings ended in a mistrial on September 4, after the jury was unable to reach a verdict. And while Clancy did admit to killing her three children, her defense argued she was not criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

“I think there’s definitely a threat in the Republican Party right now,” political and legal strategist Mehek Cooke told Fox News Digital.

And while many women were supporting Clancy amid the trial, arguing that the case is an example of the lack of understanding that exists in the medical community about the effects of postpartum depression, it also served as fodder for conservatives online who reasoned that the support for Clancy is an indication that women should be stripped of their right to vote.

“Repeal the 19th amendment!” one user wrote on X, with another writing, “While we don’t have witnesses to the mom actually killing her kids, even if the devil made her do it, she’s then guilty. Crap like this is why the 19th amendment was a mistake. Female jurors need to make up their minds, stop being emotional and have a vote up or down!”

Cooke warned that these conservative accounts calling to strip women of the right to vote risk alienating female voters from the Republican Party.

“When you have these fringe activists online talking about repealing the 19th Amendment or alienating women, it really doesn’t help,” Cooke told the outlet.

She also pushed back on the idea that repealing the 19th Amendment is a tenet the party believes in, reminding Fox News Digital that “social media isn’t real life.”

She continued, “I think a lot of people out there put these arbitrary crazy ideas, but it doesn’t really reflect what normal people think and what mainstream thinks. I think you’re getting these calls because of where our culture is today. You looked at the Lindsay Clancy trial and all the women out there in pink that were continuing to support a woman who murdered three children. You’re constantly seeing this cultural push in terms of where women stand today in politics.”

Tiffany Losee, director of fundraising for The Conservative Caucus, also spoke with Fox News Digital, where she said that Democrats are to blame for the backlash, adding that it’s part of their agenda to make the right look bad ahead of the midterm elections in November.

“You have to understand this is all a game to the Democrat Party,” Losee said. “They’re going to push out anything that looks fringe on the right.”

Losee also claimed that this is a diversion tactic from the Democrats, to distract from the rise of socialism on the left, with Cooke adding that it’s not the right, but actually the left that has alienated women.

“It’s our responsibility to pull them in and show them common sense,” Cooke maintained.