if the facts in this article are accurate, this is murder plain and simple and should be prosecuted as such.
According to AP:

Eighteen and pregnant, Sycloria Williams went to an abortion clinic outside Miami and paid $1,200 for Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique to terminate her 23-week pregnancy.
Three days later, she sat in a reclining chair, medicated to dilate her cervix and otherwise get her ready for the procedure.
Only Renelique didn’t arrive in time. According to Williams and the Florida Department of Health, she went into labor and delivered a live baby girl.
What Williams and the Health Department say happened next has shocked people on both sides of the abortion debate: One of the clinic’s owners, who has no medical license, cut the infant’s umbilical cord. Williams says the woman placed the baby in a plastic biohazard bag and threw it out.
Police recovered the decomposing remains in a cardboard box a week later after getting anonymous tips.

During the campaign debate over Barack Obama’s views on “born alive” abortion, Obama and his allies argued that he didn’t need to support that particular Illinois bill in question because behavior like this case was already clearly illegal.
In general, it’s not wise for the President to comment on every horrific event in America but given the “born alive” muddle, this presents a great opportunity for him to show he’s not the ogre that pro-life activists said he was.
As a moral matter, Rod Dreher uses this case to make a provocative point about late-term abortion in general:

“I understand that as a strictly legal matter, the abortionist appears to have committed a homicide. But as a moral and philosophical matter, he only delayed what Sycloria Williams wanted done by a few minutes. The baby that he is said to have discarded after it was unintentionally born would have been dismembered in Sycloria Williams womb at the request of Sycloria Williams, had things gone right.”

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