The mistrial handed Lindsay Clancy a win, but it cost every other woman something. Turning hormones, SSRIs and postpartum struggle into a license to escape accountability revives the ancient smear that women are too unstable for real responsibility. Follow that logic and any mother who admits to depression or intrusive thoughts becomes a suspect who can't be trusted alone with her own kids.
Everyone wants this case to prove something, and that's exactly the mistake. The hung jury shows the facts don't collapse into a tidy lesson about broken mothers, scheming husbands or dangerous liberal women. What happened in Duxbury was an ultra-rare catastrophe of mismanaged psychiatric care and freak drug reactions, and dressing it up as a referendum on womankind says more about the audience than the case.
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