"She was 10 weeks pregnant when we found out.... Two days later she went for a sonogram, kept the printout--a radar smudge, fetus already with arms and eyes and a heart beating.... She wanted her child, but everyone was against her--me, her parents, her friends, the abortion counselor with the big oak desk and red carpet. She never stood up and said it: I want my child.

"In the cab home [after the abortion], we said nothing and sat at opposite sides of the car... I asked her if she was all right. She told me to go away.

"After that, there was no more dialogue for many months, for she was in mourning....

"It was the end of something between us--on her side, it had killed off trust and a lot of hope, and on my side, all I felt was her resentment and bitterness and it pushed me away."

• C.T. Gent, writing on "The Loneliest Decision," in the March 2001 issue of Gear, in the Washington Times, Feb. 13, 01

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