You already have maternal feelings, or you wouldn’t be in such turmoil about this. My question is, who’s looking out for that child’s best interest? Let’s say a wrong has been done. Let’s say it was immoral for you to live with Nicolae Carpathia outside of marriage. Let’s say this pregnancy, this child, was produced from an immoral union. Let’s go farther. Let’s say that those people are right who consider Nicolae Carpathia the Antichrist. I’ll even buy the argument that perhaps you regret the idea of having a child at all and would not be the best mother for it. I don’t think you can shirk
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I’m not interested in engaging with these ideas in this forum other than to say that the ethics of abortion are complex and interesting, and LaHaye is welcome to write a book exploring all the moral grey areas and policy applications he desires. But what I want to point out is that that isn’t what he did here. Instead of writing a book about abortion, he wrote a couple of pages where his characters become talking heads for his own beliefs, then moved on. And it’s kind of a shame, because a story about a woman bearing the child of the antichrist deciding whether to have that child aborted is a golden idea for a slow-paced, narrow-scoped fantasy novel. Sci fi and fantasy is a great place to explore murky areas of real-world moral and social dilemmas. But if you’re going to go there, you have to commit *cough* Parable of the Sower *cough* “All You Zombies” *cough* Left Hand of Darkness *cough.*
