She didn't literally Mean "Son" when she said it. She meant another child in general.

I don't think that in the late 50s Kay could determine the sex of her child before it was born.

There's no mention of them in Part III, so we have to assume that Michael ordered them killed, but it would have been nice to see it (much like the Fabrizzio murder scenes which were cut).

We only saw one Rosato Brother in II, and when he was approached to reprise the role in III he insisted there be two brothers, but FFC would not shell out the money, so they were written out.

Actually, Aiello played Tony Rosato, Carmine Caridi played Carmine Rosato.

Caridi came back for Part III in a different role: one of the old dons in Atlantic City. I believe his claim to fame was, "my lucky coat!"

Ok so we saw two of them. What was never disclosed was that the Rosatos' parents were devout catholics and there were eleven Rosato Brothers. Ten of them worked for Roth, and one became a Priest. There is a movie in the making right now about them starring Brad Pitt and Leonardo Di Caprio. FFC would never shell out the money for the 10 Rosatos let alone all those scenes in which they were whacked.

Thoughtful questions, Sopranorleone.
I agree with the others about Kay pushing Michael's buttons. Medical science could not determine the gender of a fetus in the early stages of pregnancy in 1958/59. But it's possible that Kay could have asked the doctor who performed the abortion to determine the gender, just to satisfy her that she hadn't aborted a girl. And SB raised an ingenious point: what if it were a natural miscarriage? It's even more likely than an abortion because Kay was confined to the compound and a doctor would have had to do it there. Although anyone with money could get an abortion in those years, it might not have been easy to convince a doctor to get involved with the Corleones.

Michael would have regarded Questadt as a mere instrument in the plot to trap him into five counts of perjury. Roth laid the trap. And Questadt, as a Senate chief counsel in a televised hearing, would have been a very high-profile target whose killing would point directly to Michael. I've always wondered why Michael didn't go after Geary, who was a key player in the plot to trap him. Without Geary's complicity in the plot, Michael might not had such a close call with prison.

2. Michael famously states, "I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies." When Fredo informs Mike that Questadt belonged to Roth, certainly the Senator is considered Mike's enemy. Seeing as Michael never let anyone really "off the hook," did he exact revenge on Questadt? Not necessarily right after the hearing, as that would cause too much heat, but sometime after? Anyone think murder or perhaps a setup similar to Geary's?


Thoughts?

Seeing how Anthony and Mary turned out, Kay should have and would have been tormented by her decision "not to bring another child of Michael's into this world". But the inferior GF3 never addresses that.

I think you've got this backwards.

Mary and Anthony turned out fine BECAUSE Kay had the abortion. She used the abortion to escape from Michael and, eventually, get the children away from him.

How did the abortion help her get anthony and mary from Michael? At the end of GF2, my perception was that they were mostly in Michael's custody.

Actually the baby she aborted was her best shot at getting a child away from Michael. She could have left him a few months into the pregnancy and had the child after filing for divorce.