‘Same, Lindsay’ – How "My Body, My Choice" Became an Excuse for Murder
Aug 27, 2026 by FACT
On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy sent her husband out for takeout and a pharmacy run, then strangled her three children – 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan – with rubber exercise bands before slitting her wrists and jumping out the second-story window of her bedroom. She is on trial for their murders right now in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Instead of the universal horror this story should provoke, a movement has formed to defend her and her actions.
Background
Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors say she acted "intentionally, rationally and swiftly," researching the killings in advance and waiting until her husband left the house to commit them. Her defense says a combination of psychiatric medications and postpartum struggles drove her to it. Nobody disputes that she killed her children. The only question is whether she is criminally responsible for the murders. If convicted, she faces life without parole.
That question hasn't stopped thousands of women from declaring themselves on Clancy's side before a verdict is cast. Scores of TikTok videos show women holding their own babies, sobbing, captioned "Same, Lindsay." Let the meaning of that sink in.
Supporters have raised nearly $1 million for Clancy on GoFundMe. Crowds have gathered outside the courthouse to show support. They aren’t mourning three dead children – they’re lining up behind the woman who killed them.
Men have rightfully begun ending relationships over their girlfriends' support for Clancy, arguing they can’t imagine starting a family with someone who sympathizes with a mother who murdered her children. One man called off his wedding two weeks before the ceremony after learning his fiancée supported her.
“A Lindsay Clancy defender is not who you want as the mother of your own future children,” one widely shared post stated.
“The Clancy thing is a perfect test. If your girlfriend supports her, there should be a you-shaped hole in the wall no more than five seconds later,” Daily Wire host Michael Knowles wrote on social media.
How did we get here?
The feminist movement has spent a century widening the boundary of what a woman's "choices" excuse. Suffrage secured women a voice in the law. Second-wave and third-wave feminism redefined "bodily autonomy" to mean a woman's judgment about her own body overrides any competing claim – including her unborn child's life – under the banner of "my body, my choice." That same framework has now stretched to excuse what happens to children who are already born: if her truth, her trauma, her pain explains it, the killing itself becomes secondary to her story.
That’s the disturbing and flawed logic behind the "Same, Lindsay" movement – a slogan that asks the viewer to identify with the woman who strangled her children, not with the children she strangled.
Commentator Peachy Keenan noted the irony: “Why are so many women so angry? They won. They got everything they wanted. Men have never been doing this badly, and women have never been doing this well. They make more, they have the majority of jobs, they are the majority of college graduates, they have much lower rates of suicide, addiction, and alcoholism, and live longer. Marriage is optional, divorce is no-fault, they win 99% of the custody battles, they can control fertility at will, and they can’t get drafted. We are all living in the female future they promised.” Apparently, that future has fallen flat.
Where do we go from here?
This is not a battle that will be won by shouting from the rooftops that child murder is wrong. In our hearts, we all know that. Instead, we must confront this insidious ideology by restoring basic moral guardrails in our society. We have to work from the ground up.
One initiative FACT has pursued to that end is House Bill 47, which took effect July 1, 2026. This bill allows local Tennessee school boards to display the Ten Commandments alongside the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution in a prominent school location. Five districts – Blount, Rutherford, Washington, White, and Wilson counties – have already voted to do so. Rutherford County's board committed to installing the display in all 53 of its schools.
The ACLU of Tennessee, joined by Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, responded by demanding every email, board document, and design record from all five districts, declaring they are "launching an investigation of every school district that foolishly accepts the state's invitation to trample" what they call students' constitutional rights.
The same movement working overtime to explain away a mother strangling her children is now working just as hard to keep "Thou shalt not murder" off a cafeteria wall. That’s no coincidence. It is a preview of where a culture ends up once it decides fixed moral commands are optional and personal narrative is supreme. That's why FACT is committed to fighting for the moral guardrails this culture keeps trying to tear down – in the courtroom, the classroom, and everywhere else the battle for our children is being waged.
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Background
Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors say she acted "intentionally, rationally and swiftly," researching the killings in advance and waiting until her husband left the house to commit them. Her defense says a combination of psychiatric medications and postpartum struggles drove her to it. Nobody disputes that she killed her children. The only question is whether she is criminally responsible for the murders. If convicted, she faces life without parole.
That question hasn't stopped thousands of women from declaring themselves on Clancy's side before a verdict is cast. Scores of TikTok videos show women holding their own babies, sobbing, captioned "Same, Lindsay." Let the meaning of that sink in.
Supporters have raised nearly $1 million for Clancy on GoFundMe. Crowds have gathered outside the courthouse to show support. They aren’t mourning three dead children – they’re lining up behind the woman who killed them.
Men have rightfully begun ending relationships over their girlfriends' support for Clancy, arguing they can’t imagine starting a family with someone who sympathizes with a mother who murdered her children. One man called off his wedding two weeks before the ceremony after learning his fiancée supported her.
“A Lindsay Clancy defender is not who you want as the mother of your own future children,” one widely shared post stated.
“The Clancy thing is a perfect test. If your girlfriend supports her, there should be a you-shaped hole in the wall no more than five seconds later,” Daily Wire host Michael Knowles wrote on social media.
How did we get here?
The feminist movement has spent a century widening the boundary of what a woman's "choices" excuse. Suffrage secured women a voice in the law. Second-wave and third-wave feminism redefined "bodily autonomy" to mean a woman's judgment about her own body overrides any competing claim – including her unborn child's life – under the banner of "my body, my choice." That same framework has now stretched to excuse what happens to children who are already born: if her truth, her trauma, her pain explains it, the killing itself becomes secondary to her story.
That’s the disturbing and flawed logic behind the "Same, Lindsay" movement – a slogan that asks the viewer to identify with the woman who strangled her children, not with the children she strangled.
Commentator Peachy Keenan noted the irony: “Why are so many women so angry? They won. They got everything they wanted. Men have never been doing this badly, and women have never been doing this well. They make more, they have the majority of jobs, they are the majority of college graduates, they have much lower rates of suicide, addiction, and alcoholism, and live longer. Marriage is optional, divorce is no-fault, they win 99% of the custody battles, they can control fertility at will, and they can’t get drafted. We are all living in the female future they promised.” Apparently, that future has fallen flat.
Where do we go from here?
This is not a battle that will be won by shouting from the rooftops that child murder is wrong. In our hearts, we all know that. Instead, we must confront this insidious ideology by restoring basic moral guardrails in our society. We have to work from the ground up.
One initiative FACT has pursued to that end is House Bill 47, which took effect July 1, 2026. This bill allows local Tennessee school boards to display the Ten Commandments alongside the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution in a prominent school location. Five districts – Blount, Rutherford, Washington, White, and Wilson counties – have already voted to do so. Rutherford County's board committed to installing the display in all 53 of its schools.
The ACLU of Tennessee, joined by Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, responded by demanding every email, board document, and design record from all five districts, declaring they are "launching an investigation of every school district that foolishly accepts the state's invitation to trample" what they call students' constitutional rights.
The same movement working overtime to explain away a mother strangling her children is now working just as hard to keep "Thou shalt not murder" off a cafeteria wall. That’s no coincidence. It is a preview of where a culture ends up once it decides fixed moral commands are optional and personal narrative is supreme. That's why FACT is committed to fighting for the moral guardrails this culture keeps trying to tear down – in the courtroom, the classroom, and everywhere else the battle for our children is being waged.
