What The Support For Lindsay Clancy Reveals About The Abortion Debate
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What The Support For Lindsay Clancy Reveals About The Abortion Debate

Compassion should change how we respond to the woman. It should not change how we describe what happened to the child.

Abby Johnson

There is something about the public response to Lindsay Clancy that I cannot stop thinking about.

It isn’t the question the jury is being asked to decide. I don’t know whether Clancy met the legal standard for criminal responsibility when she killed her three children, and I am not interested in pretending that watching a trial from afar qualifies me to answer that question.

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