By Dave Andrusko

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I don't know if anyone has assembled the ghastly numbers, but I suspect there are many more cases of boyfriends who have murdered their pregnant girlfriends than we would ever imagine. The latest is a case in Tennessee. The headline in the Memphis Commercial Appeal is unstintingly accurate: "Tarence Nelson arraigned in slaying of girlfriend, unborn baby."

Nelson, 26, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder "in the shooting death of Tonya Johnson, 36, who was pregnant with a viable fetus, authorities said." (Her unborn baby was eight months, a stage at which the child had long since passed the point of viability.) Johnson was a third-grade teacher.

Arraigned Tuesday Nelson is in jail without bond and will return to court October 13, according to the Commercial Appeal.

The details of the double murders, which took place last Friday, were depressingly familiar. "Law enforcement records show Nelson had argued with Johnson over the pregnancy and family told detectives he was 'very upset and angry,'" WREG television reported. "The two had prior domestic violence in the relationship before he allegedly shot her in the right abdomen."

Another local television station reported, "Shelby County detectives said they believe the shooting resulted from an argument involving the 8-month-old unborn child and whether Johnson should deliver the baby or have an abortion."

A neighbor, Rosie Steele, said, 'It's obvious he didn't want it,'" meaning the baby.

Pro-lifers often remind their audiences that abortion is not a single-victim tragedy. Many mothers pay a frightful emotional and psychological price. And I would wager than many, many men are haunted for the rest of their lives for their role.

But, like ripples in a pond, the impact of abortion does not end there. Siblings--of the parents or the unborn child--friends, and especially grandparents, are caught up in the baby's death as well.

If you take all this and multiply it times the impact of the mother being murdered, and it is something straight out of Dante's Inferno.

Jessie Davis

I remember like it was yesterday a similar stomach-twisting, soul-wrenching case that took place in June 2007. Maybe it had even more impact on me because my wife and I were at our son's college graduation ceremonies when the mother of a missing pregnant woman was everywhere on cable television.

Patricia Porter knew something awful had happened. When authorities walked into her daughter's condo, they found her two-year-old grandson, Blake, alone and unattended. Watching her on television, the look on her face, the words Porter so carefully chose-- she knew her daughter was dead, even as she struggled to hold out hope.

The father of both that child and the unborn child denied knowing anything. but after nine days led police to a park where he had buried Jessie Davis.

Re-reading old newspaper stories, I learned that Bobby Cutts, Jr. was "convicted of aggravated murder in the death of the nearly full-term female fetus," according to USA Today. "The jury found him not guilty of aggravated murder in Davis' death, a count that includes intent to kill with prior calculation. But they convicted him of a lesser charge of murder in her death."

In 2008, after begging for his life, Cutts was sentenced to life in prison without parole for 57 years.

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