08/26/2026
“Women just don’t kill their children like that.”
I keep hearing women say this while discussing the Lindsay Clancy case.
But the rallying of support around a woman who strangled her children should not surprise us.
For more than 50 years, our culture has insisted that women should have the right to end the lives of their own children…deliberately, legally, and with the full-throated defense of much of the public.
So perhaps the shocking part isn’t that people can find a way to defend a mother who killed her children.
Perhaps the shocking part is that we still pretend we haven’t spent decades teaching women that, under the right circumstances, killing your own child can be justified.
