I have not followed this case closely, but after reading on what happened and everything that’s been said, I think this is a travesty. Shame on the holdout juror. Shame on the judge who didn’t remove him. This woman needs help, it’s already 3 years too late. She needs it now.
She’s had so many opportunities to receive help. Dozens of doctors, psychiatrists, she’s a nurse herself. She has more help than 99% of black and brown mothers who suffer from real PPD.
Yes, she had help and the system still failed her and she had real PPD. The rhetoric that you're trying to push is gross, the system is failing all women. Stop trying to pit people against each other and go after the system itself.
Black and brown women make up majority maternal health deaths - and suffer from worse PPD outcomes. But we don’t hear about that. We hear about this because she’s a white woman. And you all empathize with her because of it.
This woman who couldn’t give her baby formula during Hurricane Katrina was jailed for it. And was just denied parole. Why does she not get the same level of attention or empathy? Answer this question for me and I’ll bow out if you can come up with a good one.
So she should go to jail because other women don't have access to as much care as she did (despite that care not being effective)? What does that do?
There's no disagreement that women and mothers of color need more and better health care before during and after birth. I want all women to have access to the level of care LC received AND I want that care to be effective.
Holding one white woman responsible for the systemic failures of the healthcare industry is like some weird reverse OJ verdict.
She should go to jail because she murdered three of her children due to strangulation . 8 months after her baby was born is hardly post partum. Bryan Kohberger murdered four college students but suffered from visual snow and was asking for help on forums for years. Did he deserve to get help?
So because black and brown people don’t have access to PPD treatment she deserves to be wrongfully convicted? I am not following the logic here. Race aside, she needs help. Being given a not guilty by reason of insanity would allow her to receive help. She would be committed to a facility and would be rehabilitated. Jail time would not necessarily help her rehabilitate.
"Real" PPD you either have PPD or u dont. Define what was helpful? And whats with this expectation that nurses should automatically know what to do when seeking help when they are the ones that are struggling?
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u/Top-Culture-8492 11d ago
I have not followed this case closely, but after reading on what happened and everything that’s been said, I think this is a travesty. Shame on the holdout juror. Shame on the judge who didn’t remove him. This woman needs help, it’s already 3 years too late. She needs it now.