Infanticide Upheld

The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down today a Virginia State law that made it a felony "for a person to knowingly perform 'partial birth infanticide.'"

The basis for striking it down? The statute doesn't contain a "woman's health" exception.

From the dissent:

The majority’s opinion is a bold, new law that, in essence, constitutionalizes infanticide of a most gruesome nature...(Dissenting Op. at 19).

Can we not see that our discussions and the law we make in striking down Virginia’s prohibition are unfit for the laws of a people of liberty? I wonder with befuddlement, fear, and sadness, how we can so joyfully celebrate the birth of a child, so zealously protect an infant and a mother who is pregnant, so reverently wonder about how human life begins, grows, and develops, and at the same time write to strike down a law to preserve a right to destroy a partially born infant. If the disconnect is explained by personal convenience, then we must reason that all morality is personal, without commonality and source. The product of such chaos is unfathomable. (Dissenting Op. at 45).