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Lindsay Clancy Trial Is About Three Children’s Deaths — But It Has Also Forced America to Confront Postpartum Mental Health

The state concludes: ‘This wasn’t a woman suffering from a lack of care’ or ‘a lack of resources’

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Aug 28, 2026
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Lindsay Clancy at her murder trial in Plymouth Superior Court in Massachusetts on 26 August 2026. Photograph: Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger/Pool The Patriot Ledger/AP

As jurors decide whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children, the case has opened a painful national conversation about motherhood, mental illness, and w…

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