That doesn't answer the question of equal protection for that baby. We have got to get a grip on ourselves and say right is right and wrong is wrong.
This in word and deed is no different from the terrorists who behead people. Should we listen to their rationale of what could lead them to do such a thing? Should we pity them? Or should we seek justice for those who were wronged?
There was a victim in this atrocity already it was the baby who had her arms cut off by her own mother. We have to stop rationalizing murder. We can ask why but we have to stop excusing.
If you remember in the story of this woman at one point she was running down the street with her five-year-old following her crying that the baby was home alone. The difference between this woman and Marie Osmond was Marie Osmond had a husband who helped her seek help and they had help with their children so she could concentrate of her path to recovery... along the way she learned about hormones. Hormones are so powerful that I don't know where someone can even begin to explain them unless you've seen someone with hormones out of control.
Does that excuse what happened to this baby? Absolutely not. But before you choose to hang this woman from the neck, you have to start to understand the body and how it can go haywire.
I don't excuse Andrea Yates, either, and she will never be normal BECAUSE if what she did. If you remember she had an HMO and they would no longer pay for her to have inpatient treatment. Perhaps if they would have listened to her husband (and even Andrea herself) she wouldn't have been able to drown her babies.
We don't know the story, yet, of what kind of medical treatment this woman received over the past 10 months.
If she went to a shrink, I'm afraid she was doomed. An Endocrinologist would have served her much better... Andrea, too.
Why an Endocrinologist?
The endocrine system is a complex system of glands. Glands are organs that make hormones. These are substances that help to control activities in your body. Hormones control reproduction, metabolism (food burning and waste elimination), and growth and development.
Hormones also control the way you respond to your surroundings, and they help to provide the proper amount of energy and nutrition your body needs to function.
The endocrine glands include the thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas, ovaries, testes, adrenal, pituitary and hypothalamus.