Rep. Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.) said on social media that the shade demonstrates our “fight for reproductive health care,” adding that “MAGA Republicans will stop at nothing to control women’s bodies and reproductive health care — and together we must fight back.”
“We are standing up for your right to make your own health care decisions including abortion,” Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) posted on social media alongside a picture of House Democratic women in white.
Suffragettes famously wore white, which grabbed people’s attention when worn en masse and could “counter the anti-suffrage accusation that women who sought the vote must be morally corrupt,” given the color’s association with purity, a Library of Congress blog post says.
Biden zeroed in on reproductive issues early on in his address Thursday, vowing to make Roe v. Wade the law of the land again, “if you, the American people, send me a Congress that supports the right to choose.”
He also highlighted guests with connections to such issues in the audience, including Latorya Beasley, a social worker from Alabama whose IVF treatment was canceled, and Kate Cox, who had to travel out of Texas to get an abortion after her fetus was diagnosed with a fatal condition.
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