A jury in Plymouth, Massachusetts is in its third day of deliberations right now, deciding what to do with Lindsay Clancy.

On January 24, 2023, she strangled her three children with exercise bands in their home in Duxbury. Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months old. And she killed them all.

She had sent her husband out to pick up dinner. After he left, she killed the three children within a twenty-five minute window. He came home and found them.

She also cut herself and jumped out of a second-story window. She survived the fall, but is paralyzed from the waist down. She has sat through the entire trial in a wheelchair.

Nobody disputes that she did it, including her defense attorney. That part is not in question.

What is in question is whether she is criminally responsible. Lindsay’s attorney filed a lack of criminal responsibility defense — Massachusetts' version of the insanity defense — and tied it to postpartum psychosis and to a claim that she was overmedicated and did not know right from wrong.

Prosecutors say she was evaluated before the killings and told she did not have postpartum psychosis, and that she acted intentionally and quickly. She is charged with three counts of first-degree murder.

Now let me be clear about what I am not saying.

I am not saying women don’t suffer after childbirth. Some absolutely do. And for those who don’t suffer, motherhood is at least a major adjustment. It's estimated that one in seven women deal with some form of postpartum depression, and I am not here to dispute that.

What I am skeptical of is the distance between that and a courtroom argument that a mother is not responsible for strangling her three children. That is a different claim entirely. And it suggests we have lost the ability to be held responsible for what we do.

This is what the Radical Left teaches, though. They argue that no one is responsible for his or her own personal choices — but that we are all, somehow, collectively responsible for everyone else. And that’s a major reason why we find ourselves here with Lindsay Clancy.

I'm not going to pretend I know what a woman goes through during pregnancy, delivery, or adjusting to motherhood.

I have been in the delivery room for three babies. I watched my wife do something amazing and selfless each of those times. I don't claim to understand it, and I'm not going to act like I do.

Hormones are real. Imbalances are real. Things happen to the human body, and there is no doubt about it.

Yet you can still say all of that and accept that none of it is a blanket excuse for killing your children.

Last week, about three hundred people showed up outside the courthouse in Plymouth to rally for Lindsay.

A lot of them wore pink. Their signs said "Believe," and "She Needed Help," and "Peace For Lindsay."

They stood there silently for over an hour. At the end they formed a circle, prayed the Lord's Prayer together, and held their hands up in the shape of hearts.

Three hundred people, my friends. Ostensibly to support her as some sort of victim in this situation.

Listen. I understand wanting a system that prevents these sorts of tragedies from happening. I want that, too.

Supporting somebody is one thing. Calling what she did excusable is something else entirely.

I have sat on a jury myself for a trial involving the death of a five-year-old boy for two and a half weeks.

I was the last juror holding out, asking if there was any other explanation for his death. But there wasn’t.

So I know what that room feels like. And an insanity defense would be a incredibly hard sell for me.

I'm not going to second-guess twelve people who heard evidence I didn't hear.

But the crowd outside isn't the jury. They didn't hear all of the evidence either — but they already knew what they wanted the answer to be. And their desire is based entirely upon emotion.

A very big part of this traces back to feminism. Not women, not wives and mothers — the poisonous ideology.

There are terrible men in this world too, and I'm not excusing one second of that.

But the feminist movement taught generations that a mother's choices are beyond questioning — and this made certain things nearly impossible to say out loud. We saw it with abortion first. We are seeing it in Plymouth now.

Most of what ails this country is spiritual in nature. I believe that more and more each day. And I think that’s what we’re witnessing in this story, too.

Many would rather manage the wreckage than name the thing causing it.

Don’t be part of that group, my friends. Instead, boldly speak the truth, in love. Our civilization depends upon it.

Conservative, not bitter.
Todd

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WBUR — Where the deliberations stand, including the two things the jury asked to see: the knife she cut herself with, and bags of empty prescription bottles from the house.

PBS NewsHour — The rally outside the Plymouth courthouse: roughly three hundred people, the pink, the signs, the Lord's Prayer at the end.

CBS News — The defense's own words on the medication argument, including her husband telling doctors they were turning her into a zombie.

Front Office Sports — The report that Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White are ineligible, including the one sentence in the league's own contract that the whole thing turns on.

While I was out, the WNBA reportedly ruled Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White ineligible for their upcoming 2027 draft. Both men had made public their intentions to enter the draft. Both had said, in their own ways, that they identify as women.

League sources called the declarations "simply publicity stunts," and said they are "not going to give oxygen to efforts designed to mock the league."

I will grant them that much. It is a stunt.

Freedom got himself ejected from a Fever game wearing a shirt with the dictionary definition of the word “woman” on it. The shirt said a woman is an adult human female — which is exactly right, by the way.

Royce White has said he sometimes identifies as a woman playing basketball.

These guys are making a point and everyone knows it.

But a good stunt only works when there is something real sitting underneath it. And in this case, there is.

Go read the league's own collective bargaining agreement. Article XIII, Section 1(a): "Only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA."

Seems simple enough, right? Well, in a sane world it is — but not when the woke are calling the shots.

Nowhere in the document is the word actually defined, which is an open invitation for lunatics or political stunt men to make the word mean anything they want.

But the league is telling us these two men are ineligible. But why?

If you cannot and do not define the word in today’s world, how can you be certain who qualifies and who doesn’t?

The dirty little secret is, they know. Everybody knows. That is what makes this so maddening. Infants know the difference between mom and dad — as does your family dog.

The WNBA can make this problem go away tomorrow by simply making it clear what a woman is. But they don’t want to.

Instead we get the routine where the Radical Left pretends not to understand self-evident truths.

I hope Freedom and White sue. I really do. Somebody has to step in and stop the madness before it does any more damage to women’s sports and our society.

This is the moment where I say we are rebuilding whole institutions — sports among them — around something a generation ago we would have treated as a mental health crisis.

Watch it through to the end. Then send it to somebody who thinks this argument is beneath them, because the league just spent a week proving it isn't.

I'm behind the microphone again today after a week in Montana with my family. Fly fishing, horseback riding, and a UTV run up a mountain to an old mining ghost town called Garnet, the day after it rained. You better believe we found every puddle of water coming down that mountain and ended up soaking wet! We had a blast!

My son and I also got out to the air show in Billings the Saturday before. He draws airplanes and does aviation collaborations on social media, and I'm proud of what he has built. He's @indyaviator if that's your thing.

Thank you to Krish Dhanam and Gary Varvel for holding down the fort while I was gone. And thank you for letting me have the time away. It was much needed!

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