Several Democratic congresswomen donned white in what they said was a statement about reproductive rights.
Democratic congresswomen wearing white to call attention to reproductive rights cheer as President Biden delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. As political leaders and guests shuffled into the U.S. Capitol for President Biden’s high-stakes State of the Union address Thursday night, overhead views of the chamber revealed a sea of white.
Dozens of Democratic congresswomen donned the color in what they said was a statement about reproductive rights. , Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib wore kaffiyeh, a symbol of solidarity with Palestinians, on Thursday. Rep. Brad Schneider , Jared Moskowitz and others wore the number 153 to represent the number of days Israeli hostages have been held in Gaza.
Thursday is not the first time female lawmakers have dressed in white for the annual event; dozens of congresswomen also took up the symbolic dress for President Donald Trump’s 2019 State of the UnionSuffragists famously wore white, which grabbed people’s attention when worn in large groups 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.
Suffragists in the United States adopted the strategy and similar images came out of American cities. In one instance, thousands of white-clad women, carrying yellow parasols and wearing sashes that said “Votes for Women,”After women secured the right to vote, the color evolved to represent women’s rights more broadly.
One of the white-wearing-women, Rep. Frederica S. Wilson , thanked Biden for “standing up for reproductive freedom” during the address,President Joe Biden evoked Trump and a Supreme Court opinion, criticizing efforts to overturn reproductive right, at the 2024 State of the Union on March 7.
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