Mothers Aren't Failing They're Being Failed

Powerful people count on no one paying attention. Subscribe and prove them wrong. Someone has to and it turns out that someone is us.Women are carefully watching the Lindsay Clancy trial for reasons that have very little to do with true crime. They are watching because it has become a national conversation about the outer edge of postpartum mental illness, and because every new headline raises the same unsettling question: what happens when a mother says she’s not okay? Then, after Hayden Panettiere’s death, millions of people found themselves watching old interviews in which she described what happened after she publicly disclosed that she had postpartum depression, including her account that Neutrogena ended their relationship after she spoke openly about it. One story is about a woman accused of an unimaginable crime, and being failed by a medical system unequipped to handle maternal health. The other is about a woman who described a common medical condition and faced consequences…