[Aggie Mama]

I am about 8 weeks from having our next baby. My husband said this whole thing has made him physically ill. I don't think that you are alone in your thoughts.

The worst part about this is, when you are pregnant, you feel so darn VULNERABLE those last few months. Your husband is supposed to protect you and keep you safe, not kill you and your unborn child.

[new cruelty]

I wish you well with your family.

This is our first child. My wife had a tough pregancy (it would figure, since she is an ob-gyn resident). She had a torsed ovary 9 weeks into her pregnancy and ended with preeclampsia. Our daughter arrived a few days early, but both are now in good health, though all the while, I prayed more intensely than I have ever prayed before. And I have God to thank for my good fortune.

[Theodore R.]

You know, the late socialist novelist Theodore Dreiser wrote a two-part novel about a case similar (but less flamboyant) than this one. In "An American Tragedy" Dreiser seemed to blame the capitalist system for fostering a climate in which a man would feel compelled in that case for financial reasons to murder his pregnant girlfriend. Wasn't the character named Clyde Griffiths? Was the movie role played by the late Montgomery Clift?