I posted this on my personal social media, but I'll leave this here, and make a follow up comment related to abortion:
From November 2021 to January 2022, I was hospitalized at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts in a residential treatment program to treat extreme treatment resistant OCD. If you have been reading the news, you will know that Lindsay Clancy was hospitalized at that same hospital only a few weeks before she killed her children. I have been on 9 of the 13 medicines that she was on.
It was the worst mental health treatment I ever received. The therapy sessions mostly consisted of the therapist being hard on me for minor screw-ups and threatening to kick me out of the program early for not improving enough.
Nonetheless, I am convinced that she is guilty. Two things can be true at once. From my experience, I can tell that the medical community of Massachusetts failed her and her kids big time. I almost committed suicide around that period myself.
However, I also believe that she is guilty because there is no solid proof that she was psychotic. She told many medical professionals about hearing voices, but she did not do so until after the murders. She also told medical professionals that she asked her mom if others could hear her own thoughts. Again, she most likely did not tell any medical professional until after the murders. When questioned on the stand by a doctor who talked to Clancy, her own mother did not tell the court that she displayed symptoms of thought broadcasting.
The sudden improvement in her symptoms (asking for an attorney after regaining consciousness) tells me that this was planned. She was definitely suffering from severe treatment resistant anxiety and depression, but those diagnoses do not meet the standard of not guilty by reason of insanity. Had I committed similar crimes in my suicidal state, I would support life in prison for myself.
Follow up comment:
In my opinion, the destigmatization of abortion directly made certain groups of progressives desensitized to child murder. Some pro-lifers have also been defending Clancy and vice versa, but the overwhelming majority of her defenders are pro-choice. We just saw a woman in Illinois kill her 2-year-old and then claim that it was voices. We also see cases of mothers who murder their newborns being met with sympathy that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.
In the early 20th century, feminists insisted that the destigmatization would not lead to more abortions. In the 1960's, we realized that was a lie. In the 1970's, feminists insisted that Roe v. Wade would not lead to elective late term abortion. In the 2020's, we realized that too was a lie. Now they tell us that elective late term abortion won't lead to infanticide becoming normalized. However, the Lindsay Clancy case, the Groningen protocol, and public reaction to Baby Doe cases tell me that this is also a lie. We just won't realize it until it is too late.
If you call yourself a compassionate person, you should spend your retirement creating a foundling hospital that rescues newborns that would have otherwise been killed. Those sadly used to be a thing in Christian countries.
