thoughts of a meme

subtly_modded posted the following meme:
"If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal."

at first i thought, of course, there must be lots! but then i started thinking about it, and i wasn't so sure. i realized that almost all of the people i know, i actually met in person and would have met without the internet. what the internet _has_ been incredibly useful for is helping me get to know people better than i would have otherwise, and creating a sense of community. and there are definitely quite a few people that i would only have met in passing and never really gotten to know at all without the internet, so i'm going to say that counts. however, there is at least one person i can think of on my friends list whom i would not have met without lj, so there you go. :)

um, what?

Woman charged in unborn baby's death

[An Alabama] woman has been arrested after she was accused of killing her unborn child by cutting the umbilical cord, authorities said Monday. ...
"She said her water broke sometime Friday morning and then she started experiencing pain and bleeding and was taken to Helen Keller Hospital," Tyler said.
He said medical personnel at Keller Hospital, during the course of the baby's delivery, discovered the umbilical cord had been "severed while still inside the mother's uterus."

is it even possible to intentionally sever the umbilical cord yourself? how would you do that without causing other injury? i mean, it's not like you can just pry open the cervix and stick some scissors up there...