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The Lindsay Clancy trial hits closing arguments today, and the jury will likely be in deliberations by 12 pm, but regardless of the outcome, the divide that this case created in the American psyche is stark and will not be healed as quickly. There was an outpouring of support for Clancy from mothers who seemed to sympathize with the 36-year-old woman who admits to murdering her three children in January 2023, but claims to have been crazy when she did it.
On social media, women have posted videos they've taken of themselves holding their children and weeping because of all the stress of motherhood. Others have filmed themselves smashing ice cubes into their bathtubs. Still others have gathered outside the courthouse, wearing pink, to give solace and comfort to a woman who faces first-degree murder charges for killing her children. Some of these women even brought their own children, which, to be honest, gives pause to their own capability of caring for their children. An OBGYN even took to socials to share her support for child-killer Clancy. I guess for those who support abortion, it's a short distance from killing newborns to killing 5-year-olds.
It's been appalling for many to look upon this: how could there be any way to understand, justify, or sympathize with a woman who got her husband out of the house on some errands, then took each of her three children, one by one, to the basement to strangle them with exercise bands? It even appears that she took a call from her husband while she was in the middle of strangling them. Then-husband Patrick Clancy said when he called, it sounded like she was giving the kids a bath. Her husband worked from home and was home so much that she had to get him out of the way to undertake this gruesome act.
Clancy had a nanny until 2022 when her third child was born and she decided to stay home with them. Her husband worked from home. Her parents and in-laws were supportive. She was a member of a country club. She had as many doctors as she wanted. She was likely overprescribed, but it's up to each of us to be in charge of and responsible for our own health and treatment.
Just as social media exposed the madness of moms and women who supported Clancy and understood her actions, social media has now given us a desperately needed alternative view. Moms have been posting photos of themselves and their beloved children during those first postpartum months and the results have been the flooding of social media timelines with contemporary nativity scenes of mothers and their beloved children with all the promise of God's love for a future here on earth.
Men have also taken notice of the Lindsay Clancy-stans, and they don't want anything to do with them. Men have been posting that they've broken up with their girlfriends after finding out that she's pro-Lindsay. And the girlfriends have been posting too, many of them shocked that this disagreement over Clancy's guilt or innocence by reason of insanity could come between them. They seem to believe it's a "movement" of some kind instead of men just realizing they don't want to have children with a woman who justifies murdering children.
"Woman are getting angry that men are dumping them over Lindsay Clancy support," Tim Pool said on X. "It's real and its good. No one is entitled to someone else's company and women should be relieved they are breaking it off now before getting too serious." For those who don't understand how women could possibly support Clancy, the notion is unfathomable and horrific.
In the end, it will be up to the jury to determine Clancy's guilt or innocence. In jury instructions, Judge Sullivan will be telling them they can consider manslaughter if they don't believe prosecutors have met the burden of proof for first-degree murder. But it will be up to the rest of us to decide if murdering children is something we feel can be justified and to face our own conscience over that.
Libby