Looks like Ed Morrisey is pushing another bogus story…..

Video: Mother kills newborn, can’t be charged with crime

Investigators tell WSLS the baby’s airway was still blocked. They say the baby was under bedding and had been suffocated by her mother. Investigators say because the mother and baby were still connected by the umbilical cord and placenta, state law does not consider the baby to be a separate life. Therefore, the mother cannot be charged.

“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 with that baby to kill it.“, says Investigator Tracy Emerson. “She could shoot the baby, stab the baby. As long as it’s still attached to her in some form by umbilical cord or something it’s no crime in the state of Virginia.“

It seems plausible at first, based on a real news report and an interview with an investigator until he makes the bizarre statement that a mother can stab or shoot her baby. I seriously doubt that. If a late term abortion is illegal in VA then shooting or stabbing a baby after birth is almost certainly illegal.