R' Daniel Eidensohn wrote:
> Just asked this question to Rav Nosson Kaminetsky. He replied
> that his father Rav Yaakov Kaminetsky said that it was not a lie.
> Shlomo HaMelech in fact was prepared to cut the baby in half.

And what would have been his justification for it?

I understand that a melech has a LOT more leeway than other people, 
even when it comes to killing. Still, there needs to be some sort of 
reason to justify such an action. Was the dispute between those two 
women such a gigantic political problem that it needed to be solved 
even at the expense of the baby's life?

Akiva Miller