In the wake of a devastating 2023 infanticide case that exposed the fragility of maternal mental health support, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has proposed expanding a voluntary nurse home-visiting program to reach nearly every new family in the state. The initiative, rooted in genuine compassion for postpartum vulnerability, has reawakened a decades-old philosophical tension between the state's duty to protect and the family's right to remain sovereign within its own walls. What unfolds in Massachusetts may quietly answer a question Phyllis Schlafly posed in 1999 and never fully resolve
Schlafly warns Massachusetts home visit expansion echoes 1999 'Big Sister' concerns
Lindsay Clancy killed her three children (Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; Callan, 8 months) in 2023; she was found not guilty by reason of postpartum psychosis after jury deadlock.
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