Why The Hills Like White Elephants Is Tricky

A while ago, we read the "Hills Like White Elephants" story and although now I know it's about abortion, the ending doesn't really let you know how it ends. So, this is what I would do if I was in the Woman's situation. But, this is just me.  First off, if the guy was so obviously trying to make me get an abortion, my first reaction would be. "Why?" if the answer wasn't already evident. it seems to me like he wants to leave me and get away with it scott free. Either that or he made a mistake and doesn't want to live up to it. To both, my answer would be no. She asked if he would love her if she got the abortion.  Of course he's not going to say no. Until she gets that abortion he's gonna say everything she wants to hear. Now, I've never been pregnant, but I would never get an abortion. That's just me. For one, it would be my fault that the baby got there unless I was raped. Secondly, the baby didn't do anything to me, and it's not the baby's fault that a mistake was made. That baby is a human just like me, and everyone else. I couldn't kill a hamster much less a human being. So if i was in that women's situation, I would keep the baby and say "screw you" to the father. He can't make me commit a murder. Why is it if I killed the baby a minute after it was born I could be jailed for life or given the death penalty, but if I kill it a few weeks earlier its completely different? I'm going off on a tangent here because this is a topic I've defended for years. I don't understand why a simple thing such as age defines when its right to kill. The story sickened me because babies are seen like objects that you can just get rid of if you don't want it. They're not toys, or clothes that didn't fit you quite right. You don't get receipts or layaway. I would do everything in my power to raise that baby whether I was alone or not. If a baby is enough for a man to leave you, especially if it's his baby, then he didn't really love you in the first place. I don't know what time period the story is set in, but in modern day, it is pretty common for there to be single mothers all across the world. I would gladly choose to be one of those if given the choice to murder my flesh and blood, or raise it to be a model citizen who, in the end, I'll be glad to have.