Father of the year--not

Independent:

A businessman with an irrational fear of becoming a father has been jailed for almost four years after he laced his wife's breakfast with abortion pills in an attempt to make her lose their unborn baby.

Gil Magira, 36, from Hendon, north London, admitted crushing up the pills, which he bought online, and sprinkling them in his wife's sandwich, yogurt and a bowl of cereal in an attempt to end her 11-week pregnancy.

Yesterday, at the Old Bailey in London, Magira was jailed for three years and nine months after pleading guilty to a charge of using an instrument to procure a miscarriage. It was the first time in more than 30 years that someone has been charged with such an offence. It was also the first time that a father has been prosecuted for trying to terminate a pregnancy in such a way.

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Magira's wife, Anat Abraham was left in pain and bleeding and had to go to hospital after her husband's attempts at inducing an abortion. However, the child survived and their son, Matan, was born in June last year.

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"The way it was done seems almost inhuman; the way he pretended to be caring of me fully aware that he had slipped abortion pills into my food; the way he continued sharing my bed and my life as if nothing had happened. I was really scared for the first time in my life. I was scared for my life, the baby's life and Gil's life.

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Has this guy ever heard of a vasectomy? Anyone that desperate not to be a father should take care of his own plumbing. I think he got off pretty light for attempting to murder his own son while it was still in the womb.

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