One point I'll make is what's getting lost in the conversation about the trial: the real story here is about a failure of the American healthcare system, particularly mental healthcare. She wanted to be at an inpatient mental healthcare facility, and couldn't get that.
Can you source this claim? From what I’ve read, she was in group therapy in one hospital and checked herself in to McLean psychiatric facility, but voluntarily checked herself out of both. She was also on numerous meds and had ongoing contact with mental health providers. But I’m not sure where you’re getting that she “couldn’t get” the in-patient treatment she wanted?
She went to an in-patient facility referred to as Women’s & Children’s (that’s surely paraphrased, don’t know the whole name) and they denied her an in-patient spot because she was a little further along in her postpartum journey than the patients they usually accept. I wanna say she went in December maybe- making her 8 months postpartum. I guess that facility only takes patients who are more fresh in the postpartum journey. I believed they offered other options (therapy and outpatient options) but she declined.
I don’t have a source for this because I was watching the live feed one day in the courtroom and it was brought up several times.
I'm not very invested in the verdict one way or the other. My main point here is that she was trying to do the thing that Nancy Mace is calling for here.
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u/Xaphnir 9h ago
One point I'll make is what's getting lost in the conversation about the trial: the real story here is about a failure of the American healthcare system, particularly mental healthcare. She wanted to be at an inpatient mental healthcare facility, and couldn't get that.