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Eleven Angry Idiots (and One Hero)
Townhall.com ^ | 6 September A.D. 2026 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 09/06/2026 8:47:47 PM PDT by lightman

It’s only fitting that Gloria Steinem died the same week the personification of her existence faced a hung jury. “You’ve come a long way, baby!” Women have gone from demanding abortion to performing extremely late-term abortions at home, and they’re celebrated for it. It’s like the baby murder Olympics.

Steinem died exactly as she wanted – alone, surrounded by people unrelated to her having cheerfully bragged of her abortion(s) and soon to be forgotten, as any leftist woman under 40 likely thinks he’s some kind of Zionist monster, based on her name. She outlived her rich husband of three years (marriage is a prison, unless it comes with golden bars!) by 23 years.

She will quickly be forgotten, but her impact lives on in people like Lindsay Clancy and the sickening cultural rot in her wake.

Clancy managed to murder her three children, calmly and with ease, but somehow just couldn’t finish herself off after cutting her wrists and throat, jumping out a window. She couldn’t have cut that deep, or else she would be dead. So-called “crazy” has its limits, apparently. All the Googling beforehand didn’t include how to do those cuts properly, as she was very thorough with her children.

But her lawyers insist she was crazy at the time – in the midst of what may well be the shortest attack of “post-partum psychosis” the world has ever seen. It lasted just long enough to hear a voice telling her to murder, then acting upon it. That must be the envy of every schizophrenic on the globe.

It’s weird how she would hear a “male voice” once and unquestioningly obey it. I bet she wasn’t that malleable of a wife.

That a piece of garbage human being would do something evil is a common story throughout history; that so many seemingly “normal” people would suddenly rush to the side of someone who’d killed their kids exposes just how far beyond redeemable many people are.

Were there always people who cheered monsters? Sure, Charlie Manson had fans his whole life. But someone so obviously defective hasn’t really attracted more average-seeming fans.

Maybe a large percentage of women have had thoughts of killing their kids, but I doubt it. And I doubt there is a bloodlust for children in so many women that no one noticed before.

I think it is likely that these women like the idea of not being responsible for things they do. Many of them are young, without kids, and many more are clearly horribly ugly people, inside and out, with little chance of ever becoming pregnant. Yet, they still want the preemptive absolution – the permission – to do anything they feel at any given moment.

Nothing is as popular today as victimhood. It was once something a worthwhile culture shunned; shook off. Now, it’s an aspiration.

Those women might not want to kill their own kids one day, but they do want the choice. They want the implications of irresponsible postpartum psychosis offers. If you can kill your own kids because of it, where does that end? If the “partum” part was 8 months earlier, how long does the absolution last? Can you kill a neighbor a couple of years later and claim post-partum psychosis? Can you rob a couple of banks and say post-partum psychosis made you do it?

Realistically, there would be no end to what could be claimed and how long the ability to claim it would last, as the entirety of post-partum psychosis is internalized in the “sufferer.” You can’t disprove what someone says they heard in their own head.

Thankfully, at least not yet, we don’t have to think about that. While the jury, reportedly, had 11 members ready to believe Clancy’s story, one brave man refused to conform. This man – one of the three men on the jury with nine women – wasn’t going along with “the sads” justifying the killing; a voice, heard only once, leading to slowly strangling the life out of babies.

That man is a hero. And while the rot this trial exposed will continue to exist, it did not win this week because of him. The rot will be back to fight next week, as it always is, but this country still produces people who will stand up for the right thing in the face of enormous pressure and, because of that, we sane, normal people still have hope. Thank God for that.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: abortion; clancy; moralabsolutes

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Within weeks of Massachusetts enacting an up-to-time-of-birth abortion decree hordes of banshees cheered a series of post-partum "abortions".

Welcome to the land of infanticide.

1 posted on 09/06/2026 8:47:47 PM PDT by lightman
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To: Morgana; little jeremiah

Ping.


2 posted on 09/06/2026 8:48:36 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: lightman

Abortion has an impact. Fulton Sheen predicted the scourge on society that abortion would bring

Roe V Wade was taken out of the Constitution. Our constitution no longer condones it

I would want to know what studies say about this. No one will study it though


3 posted on 09/06/2026 8:56:21 PM PDT by stanne
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To: lightman

The term “Idiots” is being kind.


4 posted on 09/06/2026 9:00:15 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: lightman
Already posted here with 47 replies.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394408/posts

5 posted on 09/06/2026 9:10:44 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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To: stanne

Roe V Wade was taken out of the Constitution.


As I’m sure you know, it was never ‘in’ the Constitution. The SCOTUS Justices at the time found it in a “penumbra (shadow) of the ‘right to privacy’”. Odd since abortion was illegal in all states when both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were ratified.


6 posted on 09/06/2026 9:13:02 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: lightman
JAMBOG!

Eleven Angry Idiots (and One Hero)

09/05/2026 10:26:36 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 47 replies
Townhall ^ | 09/05/2026 | Derek Hunter

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4394408/posts

The exact same story was already posted but you were too lazy to search first to see if it might have been.

7 posted on 09/06/2026 9:22:03 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: hanamizu

USSC decided it was covered under the constitution in 4th amendment

Our nation had to legally condone it

No more

“ Roe v. Wade was a 1973 Supreme Court ruling, not an amendment or part of the original text of the Constitution. [1] (https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/roe-v-wade-and-supreme-court-abortion-cases), [2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade)The Supreme Court decided that the U.S. Constitution implicitly protected a right to privacy. The Court linked this right to privacy to the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This ruling made access to abortion a legal right nationwide”


8 posted on 09/06/2026 9:23:43 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Paal Gulli

I searched by title and it came up as nada.

FR search is NOT perfect.

Don’t throw stones.


9 posted on 09/06/2026 9:31:07 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: stanne

“...implicitly protected a right to privacy.”


“Implicitly” but not of course in the actual text of the 4th, seven of the Justices decided that the implied right of privacy included the ‘right’ of abortion.

And then there’s the 14th. Is there anything this amendment cannot do? Ban Trump from office, allow Chinese women to create U.S. citizens by giving birth on Guam, require gay marriage...etc. etc.


10 posted on 09/06/2026 9:35:57 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

I don’t necessarily disagree with you, and anyone could have looked at that ruling as bogus and likely to be overturned but it did give a lot of people license

It’s gone now. But repercussions are with us.


11 posted on 09/06/2026 9:39:41 PM PDT by stanne
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To: hanamizu

> And then there’s the 14th. Is there anything this amendment cannot do?

It’s a Swiss Army knife. It’s a wonder Victorinox hasn’t made it their motto.


12 posted on 09/06/2026 9:47:40 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: Bullish

From Trannys gone Wild
To
Child Murder———


13 posted on 09/06/2026 10:16:11 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Good SCIENCE is Not Faith BUT Curiosity. )
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To: lightman

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14 posted on 09/06/2026 10:41:55 PM PDT by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accountant, gun-totin' Grandma - multi .issue vor in)
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To: lightman

Eleven Angry Idiots (and One Hero)

9/6/2026, 12:26:36 AM · by SeekAndFind · 47 replies
Townhall ^ | 09/05/2026 | Derek Hunter

15 posted on 09/06/2026 10:47:40 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (TDS: Trump Deification Syndrome)
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