re: #22 Charles

Even that makes little sense since a close reading of the statute would show that there’s no there there. It’s a bunch of sound and fury signifying someone wasn’t paying attention in class. Ed shouldn’t have pushed the story in the first place and clearly didn’t bother to check the Virginia law, which would have revealed the law’s specific mention of the umbilical cord and placenta.

But he did push the story, and for all the talk about having to get the law changed; the Virginia legislature last amended the statute in 2003. You’d think someone would have noticed then?

And even then, you would have been able to run a google search to find the news reports of the court challenges to the statute including the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals overturning the district court’s ruling that the statute was unconstitutional.

So, what we have is someone - the investigator most likely - who doesn’t know the state of the law, and either misrepresents the law or is lying about the law.