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by Sharayah Colter
September 13, 2026
Twice this week I have been doing research regarding the Lindsay Clancy trial and have been struck with one thing both times: The Google search results are full, page after page, of articles from typically left-leaning news organizations and the even further left-leaning groups they prefer.
The narrative: motherhood is too hard, hormones cannot be overcome, the “system is at fault,” and babies and children are bothersome, and to that end, acceptable collateral damage.
Missing were articles from conservative and Christian outlets. If you wanted to find a biblical worldview response to this sordid trial of a mother who strangled to death her three children, ages 5, 3, and 8 months, you’d have to do some intentional hunting. I have seen content from these types of voices on social media platforms, but it was really striking to me that there was not much in the way of Christian-worldview — or even right-leaning — commentary about this case in news outlets and search results.
That is unfortunate and troubling. This case is incredibly high-profile, and people paying attention, and even casual observers, need the benefit of a well-rounded-at-minimum and Christian-influenced-at-best analysis. Why? Because without those things, readers, and especially women who astonishingly report seeing themselves in the Lindsay Clancy story, are only ingesting a one-sided perspective.
They’re hearing that it wasn’t Lindsay’s fault at all. She was failed, they say, by her family, by medical professionals, by “the system.” They’re hearing that it is common to have postpartum psychosis (actually fewer than 1 percent suffer this) and experience intrusive thoughts about harming their children. They are hearing that those kinds of thoughts are just part of the process and the territory of motherhood.
They are seeing a version of motherhood displayed that looks, frankly, awful and unappealing. Who would want to become a mom when all you see is that it makes women cry, makes them tired, leads them to only wear sweats and spit-up covered t-shirts, and drives them to drinking?
So, then, women who have become mothers begin looking for those thoughts and attitudes and feelings to pop into their own minds. And, when that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, these women then accept and embrace them rather than shunning them right away, because now they have been told that those thoughts are normal and common. They therefore give intrusive thoughts a hospitable home where they can fester and take root.
After all, this is normal and common, they’ve heard on repeat.
And that is how, in the span of this trial being before the court, the jury, and the watching public eye, at least one woman has allegedly carried out a “copycat” crime in Illinois. If you’ve not been on social media lately (good for you), you may not be aware that as the Lindsay Clancy trial has become a center of online discussion, women are now:
Recording themselves throwing ice in their bathtubs and screaming, supposedly to express and release the pent-up anger and dissatisfaction they have about the difficulties of motherhood
Pretending to drop their babies off balconies, to put them in dryers, and to hit their heads into doorframes
Splashing babies with ice water in their faces for “clicks”
Filming themselves crying while they pat their babies with the text “same, Lindsay” pasted over the videos
This is incredibly alarming.
Are hormones real and difficult? Certainly. Is it possible for someone to have a mental problem that leads them to be institutionalized for their safety and the safety of others? Also, yes. But these things do not and cannot be allowed to give women a pass on murdering their own children.
It doesn’t matter how tired you are or how much you are struggling with emotions and balancing life’s demands. Killing children is never the answer. This cannot be normalized. It should be scandalized and held by all of society as disgusting, atrocious, and shameful behavior. Those who commit these crimes should purposefully be held out as social pariahs for the good of the rest of the community, not lauded as heroes and celebrated outside the courthouse.
On September 3, Clancy’s defense attorney delivered fan mail to her in the courthouse. This should. Not. Happen.
People often want to be seen as the victim to be pitied, but most people don’t want to be the pariah who is held at arm’s length. Therefore, the overall social and cultural response to this matters greatly.
Two things need to happen:
We need to make killing babies and children be seen as a stomach-turning evil again.
We need to make motherhood attractive again.
Show the positives, the wins, the blessings, the smiles, the joys. Dwelling only or mostly on the hard parts was already driving young women away from getting married and having babies. Now it is driving them toward harming what they see as the parties responsible for their misery: their children.
We must present a better and more compelling view. Katy Faust said this well this week, describing human nature as “mimetic.” I agree with her.
You don’t have to have a role in Congress to help make a difference in this. In fact, we have a specific ask for you. We are beginning Motherhood Mondays and Fatherhood Fridays, and we are asking you to send us your stories and photos. Together, we are going to create positive content to share into the electronic ecosphere that currently is tainted with TikTok moms cheering for Lindsay Clancy and filming themselves joking about killing their own kids.
What we need to show is the “greener grass” that does exist in parenting. Sure, it’s not a walk in the park. It certainly has plenty of hardships: no one denies that. But right now, young people need to see the beautiful side of raising children, and they need to see it fill the internet.
So, let’s get busy. Send us your content at americanrevivalproject@colterco.com. We’ll share it with one goal: to make motherhood and fatherhood desirable again.
Because here is the reality almost every parent would acknowledge: children are a blessing.
The days are long and the years are short, and despite the very real difficulties that exist in child rearing, children bring a richness to life and family that cannot be replicated in any other way.
— Sharayah Colter is a journalist, author, and co-founder of the American Revival Project alongside her husband, Dr. Scott Colter, and founder of Colter & Co., a national communications firm with offices in Dallas and Washington, D.C.
Yep, discussed this gaping abyss in American women’s souls this week here https://shespeakstruth.substack.com/p/truth-under-fire-equal-until-it-matters?r=wc9to&utm_medium=ios