This is his first comment on the news of triplets. This threw the murderous mother into a fit of rage.
He replied, ''What we're going to do.''
This is his next comment, where he agrees to the murder.
You wrote: She just doesn't sound like a person willing to be persuaded to me.
I fail to see where he even tried to persuader her. One question, asking a person to consider allowing babies to live is not an effort of persuasion.
Were this man on trial for being an accessory to homocide (a crime in the eyes of the law), his inaction would constitute guilt. Infanticide is a "fundamental right" in the eyes of the law; however, this man is still an accessory to it.
Maybe she condensed the conversation to meet her required number of words in the article. I seriously doubt it was no more complex than that. Besides - men really don't have much power in decisions like this. At least he wasn't the one who wanted to "get rid of" the babies. Can't you give him credit for that?