[cajungirl]

This is a sad thing here. Couldn't we wait to see what the deal is here. I don't think women plan to murder their babies. And it is sickening to see people jump on the political bandwagon. That woman in Texas who murdered her children was no feminist. Quite the opposite. Infanticide happens regardless of one's politics and has little to do with one's politics. The cruelty here is sometimes amazing, the quick readiness to make assumptions when we know nothing.

[najida]

Agreed,
Even in my limited experience, the sleep deprivation alone was enough to make you unstable. Something snaps, that is for sure.

[John H K]

And it is sickening to see people jump on the political bandwagon. That woman in Texas who murdered her children was no feminist. Quite the opposite. Infanticide happens regardless of one's politics and has little to do with one's politics. The cruelty here is sometimes amazing, the quick readiness to make assumptions when we know nothing.

Actually, I think the last TWO well publicized cases of mentally ill women killing their children were housewives who were deeply religious and attended fundie Protestant churches, and I doubt the same people here gleefully reporting the politics/classes taught of this women were doing the same in those cases.

[LexBaird]

Infanticide happens regardless of one's politics and has little to do with one's politics.

Infanticide is a sacrament of liberal politics. This one just made the error of commiting it post partum.

[onehipdad]

Pretty cut and dried, don't you think? (no pun intended).

Possible basis of PPD: Not all about her anymore..

[justshutupandtakeit]

Do you have any doubt of the ease with which howlingly mad, mobs of the ignorant can be summonded?

[walden]

You're right-- it's terribly sad.

There were two women here in Texas-- Andrea Yates and that woman up by Tyler. I never heard the resolution of the Tyler case (mercifully, the press must have had other stuff going on at that time), but Andrea Yates was basically sentenced to the loony bin for a long, long time-- until she gets better, which no one really expects to happen. She was on suicide watch the entire time of the trial, and sometimes I think that it would be much more merciful to just let them kill themselves in cases like this. Obviously, she knew what she had done, although she clearly wasn't well-- how awful will it be if she ever recovers her full mental and moral functioning and knows fully and truly her crime? Better to be dead, in my opinion.

The unforgivable one, though, is Russell Yates-- he KNEW she was crazy, and left those kids with her anyway. Day after day, homeschooled. In my opinion, at the very least they should have tried him for reckless endangerment of a child.