The Dark Shadow of Abortion and Lindsay Clancy
Judge William Sullivan, the Superior Court judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder case, declared a mistrial on September 4 after the jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict.
After seven days of deliberation, the jury couldn’t agree whether the Massachusetts mom was criminally responsible for strangling her three kids. Apparently one juror felt Clancy was guilty of the crime and wouldn’t budge from his position. The others were prepared to acquit.
The mistrial stunned the nation–particularly families. How could a mom methodically strangle each of her three children and get away with it?
The high-profile trial took place in Plymouth, Massachusetts, home of the Pilgrims–who would have most certainly convicted Mrs. Clancy.
I believe the dark cloud of abortion hovers over this mistrial and the world.
Here’s why.
The Dark Shadow of Abortion and Lindsay Clancy
I have said for many decades that abortion is the world’s largest holocaust. It has cheapened the gift of life, allowed both women (and the child’s father) to kill their preborn children without consequence or remorse, and numbed generations of people to the act of murder.
Abortion is one of the darkest clouds of human depravity.
Some people disagree and point out that many people have been killed by religion. That’s true, mostly by Muslims in the name of Allah. Some believers in Jesus have foolishly done the same–especially during the Spanish Inquisition.
But Muslims kill innocent people to obey the Koran. Misguided Christians did it against the teachings of the Bible.
In 1692-93 about 35-40 “witches” were killed or died in prison in Salem, Massachusetts, just one hour north of where the Clancy trial occurred. Tragic. Overzealous. From 1400 to 1775 AD, some 50,000 witches were killed across Europe. That’s 130 per year. Sadly, it was a “witch-hunt.”
But over 100 million innocent people died at the hands of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao–all atheist leaders–in the 20th century. Non-believers in God have been far more murderous in history than any religion.
Yet, abortion tops them all–by far.
Over the past fifty years, some 73 million people have been slaughtered through abortion each year. That adds up to over three billion human beings murdered.
Let that number sink in.
We’ve killed three billion people (one quarter of the world’s population) with no accountability.
No wonder we can’t get a trial right about a mother strangling her three children. We’ve rationalized killing unborn babies for half a century.
The Christian Post gives the facts and misplaced sympathy generated for Lindsay Clancy killing her kids:
Clancy, 36, a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, faced murder charges for the Jan. 24, 2023, deaths of her three children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan.
Her trial received significant attention from the media and from women who have experienced postpartum struggles and feel empathy for the Massachusetts mother.
Following the conclusion of jury deliberations on Monday, [her attorney} Kevin Reddington said that his client has received enough letters of support to fill three mailboxes.
Clancy pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder, with her defense attorney arguing that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time. Prosecutors argue that Clancy planned the murders and sent her husband to pick up takeout and stop by the pharmacy before murdering their children and attempting suicide.
Earlier during the trial, about 300 women and some men rallied outside the Plymouth courthouse to express their support for Clancy. Many of the demonstrators wore pink shirts emblazoned with phrases such as “Believe,” “She Needed Help” and “Peace For Lindsay.”
Most of the women assembled said that they empathized with Clancy, and they believe her case has put a spotlight on postpartum mental health and the difficulties women can face when seeking treatment.
Renee Kimball from Maine, who served as the event’s lead organizer, believes that every woman can identify with Clancy’s situation.
“ I think that every one of us women believe that it could be any one of us,” Kimball said in a statement to WBUR at the time. “Any one of us who have dealt with mental health, anxiety, depression, postpartum, I think we just know that any one of us could be sitting in her chair.”
Others, such as pro-life advocate Abby Johnson, argue that many people have allowed a sense of “misguided compassion” to fuel their feelings.
“I think that people are using their own experiences with postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, and they’re linking it to what Clancy did, and they’re saying, ‘Oh, that could have been me,’” the former Planned Parenthood clinic director-turned-pro-life advocate told The Christian Post.
“But that’s actually not true; most women who have postpartum psychosis do not kill their children,” she added. “Most women who are sympathizing with Clancy are not women who would have gone through the act of strangling three of their children.”
While the advocate and founder of the 24-hour national support hotline called LoveLine agrees that mothers need support after having a baby, she still believes that Clancy must be held accountable for murdering her three children.
Should we be sympathetic with post-partem blues? Yes. Do we understand mental health is real? Yes again.
But the ease, seared conscience, and lack of accountability involved in abortion–200,000 a day worldwide–has clouded our thinking so we rationalize women murdering their post-birth children.
We’ve been deceived by the death cloud of abortion.
Rod Martin concurs:
The Bible actually holds us all responsible for our actions. If she [Clancy] really is crazy, then of course you would modify that, but you wouldn’t let her go free. She’s a threat to society, and she murdered three children.
Perhaps some compassion — or justice — for the victims would be in order? The biblical view and the American legal view are that you are responsible for what you do. That’s a good thing, because that’s the basis of equality.
If women are just all ninnies buffeted about by their hormones to such a degree that you can’t leave your children with them safely, then the logical response to that would just be to lock all the women up. But that’s complete nonsense, and so is the infantilization of those same women by their so-called defenders.
So the defenses being made are absurd. They are a dodge of responsibility, which is endemic in this culture.
Honestly, if this woman is crazy, she probably didn’t have the requisite intent to be held fully accountable for murder one in this case. But she’s still accountable. She still did what she did.
We have this increasingly prevalent view that no one is ever responsible for anything. And yes, it started with Roe v. Wade. It started with the idea that you could murder your own child in the safest place it should ever experience in its life, your womb, and somehow that’s not only morally acceptable, but in many cases morally virtuous.
No, that’s horribly, horribly wrong.
When I speak of the evil of abortion, you might think I have no empathy. I do–deeply. I have many close friends who killed their unborn babies in their youth. I’ve seen their tears and wept with them. Fortunately, most eventually realized they’d killed an innocent child–and were deeply repentant.
As for Lindsay Clancy, killing your three young children outside the womb is wretchedly wrong–no matter the circumstances.
We must hold people accountable for their sins.
We must also pray that the global shadow of abortion will be exposed and outlawed. Otherwise, many more will get away with murder after birth and the unborn holocaust will continue.
