You are correct. The mother delivered her baby, then killed it, by stabbing the top of the baby's head with kitchen shears before severing the umbilical cord. I don't recall how the case was resolved, or if it is still pending. The story broke about a year ago.
However, my very liberal ex-friend, who is devoted to every opinion coming out of N.O.W., commented on this case in the following way (almost verbatim from about a year ago).
"The mother had every right to do whatever she wanted or felt she needed to do with her FOETUS!
I gasped and asked, trying to maintain some composure, "How can you call a newborn baby a 'foetus?'"
Without taking a breath or skipping a beat, she said indignantly, "It wasn't born yet! The cord was still attached, so it was just a foetus, and a foetus isn't a person. It's just tissue."
Do you remember Wesley Clark saying, during his campaign in the primaries, "A child isn't BORN until the mother says it's born!" ??
I can't think of another thing to say, except perhaps, God rest the soul of that child who was murdered by a mother for whom it was an intrusion and an inconvenience.
Char
She's most likely going to away with it because the way the law reads (HUM... Is 'Dogone around here, anywhere??) that it's part of her while attached. I think that's what her lawyer is saying. Evil. It's not sick: It's EVIL.