Legal Infanticide (No This Isn't A Post About Obama)

Christians in Context:

Completely by chance, as I was browsing around on Technorati.com, I came across a Catholic blog featuring a rather disturbing article; A mother in the state of Virginia delivered her baby alive, and then suffocated it. If that was not bad enough, it turns out that this is actually legal in the state of Virginia! This seems so ridiculous to me that I questioned the legitimacy of the article, but my best efforts seemed to confirm its truth; the story was featured on the local news in Roanoke, Va. Investigator Tracy Emerson, featured in the interview video clip on the Creative Minority Report Blog, explains the shocking legality of this matter,

"In the state of Virginia, as long as the umbilical cord is attached and [the] placenta is still in the mother, if the baby comes out alive, the mother can do whatever she wants to that baby to kill it," Emerson reports. "She can shoot the baby, stab the baby or anything as long as it is still attached to her in some form by umbilical cord or something, and it's no crime in the state of Virginia."