'Postpartum depression is the number-one complication in pregnancy, and we know it manifests as very mild symptoms to full psychosis, where the birthing individual will either take their own life or their life and the life of their child or children.'
About one in eight women experience symptoms of postpartum depression, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The bills, which explicitly define postpartum psychosis and postpartum depression, would require defendants facing criminal charges within one year of giving birth to be screened for perinatal psychiatric complications. For proceedings involving murder, serious bodily harm, or the threat of serious harm, people would need to be confined to a state hospital or treatment facility for at least 180 days before becoming eligible for outpatient care.
"I think it's a really good starting place for us to have a serious, serious, serious discussion about how we treat these kinds of cases," O'Day, a West Boylston Democrat, said."I think that there will be strong support from the medical community — and that will hopefully shape how the committee views this bill — and there will be a lot of discussion being brought forward by the district attorneys who may see differently.
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