Gloria Allred on Lindsay Clancy trial: Motherhood, postpartum mental health in focus

In a Massachusetts courtroom, the trial of Lindsay Clancy — a mother accused of killing her children — has become something larger than a single case: a mirror held up to the gap between how the law assigns blame and how medicine understands the mind undone by childbirth. Women's rights attorney Gloria Allred has entered the public conversation, lending decades of advocacy to the argument that postpartum mental health conditions are not moral failures but medical realities deserving serious legal weight. The case asks, in its most difficult form, what justice means when a person's capacity for