It wouldn't have had to be nine pregnancies. I wonder whether some of them could have been twins. And some of them might have been late-pregnancy abortions.
Still, even hypothesizing the above, it's --- Lord have mercy, words fail me --- phenomenal and awful.
Really, a detail that makes no difference. Can we agree that deliberately killing an innocent person is murder? See what God says about shedding innocent blood. Abortion, infanticide, Auschwitz, Hiroshima. Murder most foul.