"This is Idi Amin Stuff"

Today's local paper carried the story of a boyfriend who hired someone to punch his six-months pregnant girlfriend in the stomach.  The girlfriend is fine now (physically), but the punch caused a miscarriage, and both men have been charged with second-degree murder.  The police chief commented that he had never heard of so young a homicide victim, and that the case was "heartbreaking."  The county attorney said:

"I have never seen anything that sickens me quite like this . . . . What else is left in crime to disgust you? You assault a pregnant woman, the mother of your child, and you hire somebody to kill the child. This is Idi Amin stuff."

The boyfriend, who had already fathered a child with another woman, stated that he did not want another child.  So if a father does not want to have a child and hires someone to end the pregnancy, he is guilty of the most disgusting crime imaginable.  But if the mother does not want to have the child and hires someone to end the pregnancy, even over the father's objection, well, that's a different story.  (We might even pay for it.)