Hard to word this, but is PMDD a valid excuse for murder or harming someone? ___________________________________________________ After two British women -- one who killed her lover and another who wielded a knife in a police station -- used severe PMS as a defense in separate trials in 1981, the prosecution decried it as a setback to the women's movement. When a New York woman used the same defense in 1982 after being accused of beating her child, a Columbia University professor curtly commented: "Do we now say that the full moon causes crime and that the actor is not criminally responsible?" ____________________________________________________ Article in comments (same article I just posted actually but wanted to make this point separate).

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