The governor of Kansas has signed a law today barring protesters from funerals in an attempt to curtail a fundamentalist church that pickets military funerals, claiming the deaths are God’s punishment for homosexuality.

The four-day-old girl who was cut from her strangled mother’s womb was in “remarkably good” condition today as the alleged attacker faced an initial court appearance.

A woman charged with killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb was showing the child off to people at a café and to her pastor hours before she was arrested, residents said.

Police today charged a woman accused of strangling an eight-months’-pregnant woman and cutting the baby from her womb in a macabre attack that shocked America.