Postpartum depression: A difficult defense

“Postpartum depression is recognized as a legal defense in at least 29 countries, including Great Britain, Canada, Italy and Australia, Oberman said. Those countries have infanticide laws, which state that when a woman kills a child under the age of 1 and she can prove that the “balance of her mind is disturbed” by reasons relating to giving birth, the maximum charge the woman can face is manslaughter.”

In the US, of course, women are expected to be no less than the Virgin Mary herself and anything less is prosecutable.