All of these events have led to, among other things, a "Free Gerardo" screed wherein some brilliant blogger spells America with a three Ks, instead of a C. (This strategic spelling demonstrates the blogger's genius, because he knows about the Klan and the title of the Kafka book. Amerikkka, get it? The US is a Nazi state. Brilliant.) While I share this bloggers astonishment, it seems pretty unreasonable to blame the actions of two desperate youths on a law enforcing nation that is otherwise remarkably unlike the Third Reich. Thieves are, in many cases, desperate themselves yet are subjected to the same criminal codes.

Anyway, I digress. It speaks volumes of the level of bass-ackwardness going on when Basoria has inscribed the names of the would-be children (she didn't want) on tombstones, and has escaped liability-free. (Meanwhile her boyfriend is left to pack up and fend for himself in Sing-Sing.) What's even more interesting, in my view, is the amount of haranguing going on in response to this scenario. The only thing that separates these criminal events from a partial birth abortion is the fact that boyfriends don't generally go to prison for abortions, and mothers don't generally get themselves mauled in medical facilities.

So the real trouble, for Mr. Amerikkka, is not that two teenagers caused the death of two fetuses, or that we have laws criminalizing domestic abuse. His real trouble is with domestic abuse laws which unfavorably include a woman's unborn children as part of her abusable body. I wonder what he would have said if the result of this beating had been the failure of one of Basoria's kidneys, or severe mental trauma (both defined as intentional injury to the woman's body)? That she consented?