Americans were stunned in January when they heard Virginia Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, a former physician, casually infer infanticide after a botched abortion. After birth, he said, “the infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and mother.”Until that moment, few thought abortion could degenerate to infanticide.But infanticide is back on the front lines in the weekslong trial of anti-abortion journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress. They are charged with filming casual conversations of Planned Parenthood practitioners in summer 2015, without their permission, regarding the selling of aborted body parts. In it
