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Women's healthcare has been neglected for a long time. Health studies routinely treat women as smaller men. That includes during pregnancy and postpartum care. There are many, many women who have struggled with postpartum depression, and some psychosis, and did not receive any help from their doctors, husbands, families, etc.
The maternal mortality rate in the US is the highest of any developed nation.
So there are thousands to millions of women who desperately needed help, who were drowning while having to care for a newborn and possibly other children, with very little to no help at all. They were forced to tough it out. Sometimes being forced to tough out getting scant hours of sleep each night and healing from birth and dealing with postpartum depression leads to mental breaks and psychosis.
Many mothers can empathize with that feeling of being abandoned and having to put everything ahead of taking care of themselves to their own detriment. We're often told to lose weight, we're hysteric, we just need to take a break, whatever when we seek help for women's health issues. Women are often not taken seriously when we report symptoms.
Have you read the Lemon Clot story? It is focused on having to entertain guests during the postpartum period, but it's an eye-opening look at some of the physical ailments women deal with immediately after birth:
Well, none of this was anything new to me. I have read Lemon Clot as well.
Again, I'm very sympathetic towards this and a lot of this does apply to Clancy, but she's also in a different class than most women. She had access to a lot more than the average woman did, hence why I struggle to understand the surge of sympathy towards her in particular.
This is why I mentioned my possible lack of knowledge on the case.
Even with her access to more than the average woman, she didn't receive adequate care. It's actually because she's an affluent white woman that we're even talking about this case and the overwhelming issues with women's healthcare that helped lead to this tragedy.
You can believe that Clancy deserves prison. But to use this case to argue that women and mothers don't need a better system or better help when they are struggling is my main issue with most conversations surrounding this. Or worse, to argue that women are too emotional and too beholden to our hormones to make rational decisions or to be trusted with our own children.
This woman asked for help and her family and doctors didn't do enough. That's my personal opinion. And having been a woman who was abandoned by her husband and family during a postpartum period, I can empathize with Clancy and what it took to push her to the point of psychosis.
Postpartum can be an incredibly dark and scary time for women. I would never wish what I went through on my worst enemy.