This is a (morbidly) interesting story. Over the last few years, there have been a few high-profile killings of pregnant women by their husbands. I had heard the statistic that the number one cause of death of pregnant women is murder. How fucked up is that, in the day and age where women are happily scheduling the opportunity to be cut open and have their babies surgically removed from their wombs? It is so seriously messed up.

Here's the final of many horrific stories in the article. It is the saddest thing I've ever read.

"Ashley Lyons, 18, faced a similar horror in a park near her old high school in Kentucky early this year — on the day she went to her doctor for an ultrasound and learned she would be having a boy. She was 22 weeks along.

She had already picked out a name, Landon, and created a baby journal. As one entry gave way to another, she confided her ex-boyfriend's opposition to the pregnancy. Still, she wrote: "You are the child I have always dreamed about. . . . I know it will be a long time before I meet you, but I can't wait to hold you for the first time."

Excited by the ultrasound Jan. 7, Lyons made plans to show the fetal pictures to her ex-boyfriend, Roger McBeath Jr., 22. She left her family's home, telling her mother she would be back for dinner. But when her father and brother found her, she was sitting in her parked car — with the car engine running and the headlights on.

She had been shot twice in the head and once in the neck. In her lap was her handbag -- half opened — with the ultrasound picture inside, her father said.

"He knew that if she had that baby that she would be in his life forever, and he didn't want that," said prosecutor Shawna Jewell.

On a cold Kentucky afternoon, four days later, Lyons was buried with her tiny baby tucked into her arms."