The Gilead Gazette: Repeal Women's Right to Vote, Hide the Dead Mothers, Kill Telehealth Pills

Hey fam, welcome back to the Gilead Gazette, where I spend my Saturdays going through the receipts on what the men running this country did to women all week.This week, an argument to take the vote away from American women went mainstream. Texas moved its maternal death report to four weeks after the midterms. Louisiana spent Wednesday in federal court trying to end mail order abortion pills in all fifty states. And Indiana argued in front of its own Supreme Court that its religious freedom law was never meant for Jews.Let’s get into it.Coming for the 19th Amendment Because of…EmpathyThe Federalist published a piece this month arguing that women who feel sorry for Lindsay Clancy are the best argument for repealing the Nineteenth Amendment. That’s the one that gave women the vote in 1920, after seventy two years of asking.Lindsay Clancy killed her three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts in January of 2023, during a postpartum psychosis, after months of going to doctors and telling them exactly what she was frightened of. Her trial ended in a mistrial this month. A lot of women responded with something like sympathy, and the American right decided the women were the problem.Ann Coulter wrote, “I guess the Lindsay Clancy trial has put an end to that whole thing about a woman being president.” Meghan McCain posted, “Feel like a woman becoming president has now gotten much further away from happening since the Lindsay Clancy trial.” The Washington Examiner ran a piece saying feminism should be on trial alongside her. Jessica Valenti has been tracking this all week at Abortion, Every Day, and where it went from there is men filming themselves swearing off ever voting for a woman, people demanding that anyone who sympathizes with Clancy be committed, and thousands of comments underneath all of it that just say repeal the 19th. There is now a petition on Change.org.The Federalist’s actual argument is that suffragists won the vote by claiming women had the same capacity for judgment as men, and that Clancy’s defenders have now disproved it. Over in The Spectator, Geoffrey Cain writes that women spent generations fighting to be treated as full moral agents, “not as creatures governed by emotion or reproductive biology.” One hung jury in Massachusetts and we’re back to creatures.Clancy told her providers what was happening to her, over and over, and got sent home with a stack of prescriptions. Not one of these people wrote a column about that.Speaking of things women aren’t supposed to see.Texas Hiding Maternal Death Stats Until After the MidtermsTexas was supposed to publish its maternal mortality report on September first. It’s coming out December first instead, which is four weeks after the midterms.This is the first report covering a full year of pregnancy deaths since Texas banned abortion. The last one the state managed to release found that roughly eight in ten pregnancy related deaths in Texas were preventable, and that was data from before the ban.The health department says the acting commissioner asked the committee to strengthen the report by better describing its work around preventability. Which is a curious thing to need three extra months for, given that deciding what was preventable is the committee’s entire job, and given that nobody in Texas government has prevented anything.Texas ran this identical play in 2022, pushing the same report past that November’s election.The report already has a hole in it, because the committee voted to skip deaths from 2022 and 2023 entirely. Those are the first two years under the ban, which makes them the only two years anybody is asking about.And Texas seated Ingrid Skop on that committee, an anti-abortion activist who has spent years arguing publicly that maternal death numbers are inflated. So the report is three months late, it skips the years that matter, and one of the people signing off on it doesn’t believe the numbers to begin with.State Representative Ann Johnson called the delay an unconscionable dereliction of duty to Texas mothers. She’s being polite. Nobody needs ninety extra days to describe work they already finished. They need ninety days to get past November.Louisiana Coming for Abortion Pills NationwideNow to Louisiana, where Attorney General Liz Murrill spent Wednesday in federal court trying to take the abortion pill away from all fifty states.In 2023 the FDA dropped the rule requiring the abortion pill to be handed to you in person by a doctor. That’s what made telehealth possible, and it’s now how more than one in four abortions in this country happen. Murrill wants that rule put back, and she isn’t asking for it in Louisiana. She’s asking the FDA, which means everywhere.Louisiana already bans abortion. What Louisiana cannot do is stop a doctor in California from mailing pills to Baton Rouge, because California has a shield law and Louisiana’s authority stops at the state line. So Murrill isn’t reaching into California. She’s going after the federal rule that lets that doctor mail anything to anybody. Kill the regulation and the pills stop moving in every state at once, including the states that voted to protect this. So much for states rights.Murrill herself says more than a thousand abortions a month are happening in Louisiana right now with mailed pills. The ban is in place, Louisiana women are getting abortions anyway, and the state’s answer is to switch it off for Oregon.The Trump administration sent a Justice Department attorney to the hearing who would not defend the FDA’s rule and would not argue against it, because the administration has its own review of the drug running. Judge Stephen Higginson told him, “I find that very unsatisfactory, that the agency won’t give an opinion as to its own regulations.”Alliance Defending Freedom is representing Murrill, and their attorney Gabriella McIntyre told The Hill that if Louisiana wins: “We’re going to see for the first time truly what it looks like for pro-life states to actually be able to enforce their pro-life laws.” She called that the promise of Dobbs. The promise of Dobbs was that your state would decide. She’s telling you Louisiana decides.The FDA reports back on its review in October, a month before the election.Indiana had a week too.Indiana Says Religious Freedom Law Doesn’t Apply to JewsIndiana spent Thursday arguing in front of its own Supreme Court that its religious freedom law does not apply to Jews.In 2015 Indiana passed a Religious Freedom Restoration Act, signed by Governor Mike Pence, built so Christian business owners could turn people away. In 2022 a group called Hoosier Jews for Choice picked up that same law and aimed it at the abortion ban, because under Jewish law life begins at first breath and the mother comes first. In March a judge agreed and permanently blocked the state from enforcing the ban against them. Senator Jim Banks responded by calling for that judge to be impeached.So the state appealed, and Indiana Solicitor General James Barta stood in front of five justices and said this. “Our nation’s long tradition of respect for religious exercise has never been understood to encompass a right to intentionally destroy human life, any more than a right to abusively punish children.”My dude. You are comparing Jewish women to child abusers, in a case about a law your own party wrote to protect a bakery.Barta’s backup argument is that these women have no standing, because not one of them is pregnant and seeking an abortion at this precise moment. He called their case purely hypothetical. One of those plaintiffs is trying to get pregnant right now and is frightened of what happens if something goes wrong. Indiana’s position is that she has to be bleeding out in an emergency room before she’s allowed to have an opinion about the law.Kenneth Falk of the ACLU of Indiana asked the justices why Indiana’s ban makes room for secular exceptions, rape and incest, but not a religious one. Indiana hasn’t answered that.Speed RoundNorth Carolina flew its flags at half staff for Gloria Steinem, and the Republican mayor of Monroe told a local outlet, “I’m outraged.” Sir. They’re flags.And a Louisiana photography studio is selling little girls a baby adoption package that comes with a hospital gown, an ID bracelet and a pretend pregnancy ultrasound. Louisiana’s abortion ban has no exception for rape or incest.Stay angry. Stay loud. Under Her Eye.Sources:https://thefederalist.com/2026/08/31/lindsay-clancy-truthers-are-the-best-argument-for-repealing-the-19th-amendment/https://anncoulter.com/2026/09/03/lindsay-clancy-democrats/https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-pregnancy-death-report-set-to-release-after-midterms/https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/release-of-2026-maternal-mortality-report-pushed-back-3-months/https://lailluminator.com/2026/09/10/5th-circuit-abortion/https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-appeals-court-skeptical-bid-curtail-abortion-pill-access-2026-09-09/https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/09/10/indiana-supreme-court-weighs-limits-of-religious-exemptions-to-abortion-ban/https://www.jta.org/2026/09/10/united-states/a-case-pitting-indiana-jews-against-an-abortion-ban-heads-back-to-court Get full access to The Rogue Voice aka Linsay Rousseau at linsayrousseau.substack.com/subscribe