article_snippet: Police are investigating whether Lane knocked Wilkins her unconscious and then removed the fetus by cutting open Wilkins her abdomen.
article_snippet: Lane, accused of cutting open the belly of a pregnant woman and removing a pregnant woman unborn baby from a pregnant woman womb, had told a pregnant woman family a pregnant woman was expecting a baby boy .
article_snippet: Murder charges against Lane now depend on whether a baby boy was alive outside of the 26-year-old expectant mother's womb, the district attorney's office said on Thursday.
article_snippet: Boulder County District Attorney Stanley L. Garnett said: 'The issue of whether or not murder charges are appropriate involving a case involving the death of a fetus or a late-term pregnancy is always a difficult issue.
article_snippet: Under Colorado law, essentially, there's no way murder charges can be brought if it's not established that the fetus lived as a child outside the body of the mother for some period of time. '