Pregnant in Alabama

The Doctor's avuncular chuckled delivery got Billy Bob's back right up.

"This whore is going around knocking men up and you got yourself a blow job off her? Some spooky demon bitch shows up and you drop your damn pants?"

Despite his anger, Billy Bob was actually impressed. He didn't think the old geezer had it in him.

"She said she wanted to make up for me having to miss my golf game. Look, she wasn't human, ok? She changed her dress, her hair, her breasts, and even grew a penis right in front of me to prove her story. Heh, not to mention how she seduced me first- I hadn't even had an erection in 10 years," the Doctor sighed. "You're a man of God aren't you? Well, maybe he hasn't been so happy with what you've been doing. He was looking the other way last night because you and the others I've seen are surely pregnant."

"Pregnant? FUCK THAT! Abort this abomination! Hell, I'll go fall down some stairs."

Doctor Lekarz shook his head firmly.

"There's no provision under the law for rape or incest, or demonic impregnation, Billy Bob. A lot of women are really angry. You have a miscarriage, you break the law too, though that was something else she said - you'll find it really hard to have any kind of miscarriage. That demon girl wants you to feel something of what it's like to carry a baby you don't want."

Billy Bob was mad as an Okie mistaken for a Texan.

"That shit don't apply to the likes of us! You got to get this thing out of me."

Doctor Lekarz shook his head firmly. The penalty for performing an abortion was extreme. It wasn't his field, anyway.

"She says you have a chance, Billy Bob. Same as I told the others. The day the law is repealed you can all miscarry if you want too, 'course, you might like the idea by that point, and keep the child. It's a chance, but a choice too. Motherhood can have a powerful effect-"

Billy Bob wasn't listening. He stood there clutching his belly and felt the kick again. Then he lifted his hand up and brought his fist down hard against his belly. Something stopped it short, slowed it to a gentle caress. Well, Billy Bob knew a greater power than any demon, didn't he?

He got down onto his knees, clutched his hands together and began to pray, hard and fervently, asking for God's aid. Doctor Lekarz stood by and watched him, and then when he finally broke off spoke again,

"I've been thinking. Maybe God wants you boys to learn something too? The demon claimed the Angel of Conception would be watching over you all and would do what she does for women. When something has gone beyond medical science I can only rely on my faith."

"Life begins at conception! That's God's will! Not some satanic slut playing at being God!"

Billy Bob sat back on the end of the bed.

"Oh bullshit, Billy Bob. The law's about control, that's all. Gettin' one over the liberals with the stuffed supreme court and turning back the clock. You know me. I'm a conservative, but I don't much care for fascism, and that's what you're all heading into. I can't support that law."

Billy Bob gave him the finger.

"I'll see you never work again if you don't abort this fucking thing!"

The old Doctor actually broke into a grin.

"My gold handicap thanks you. Now, maybe you'll find a Doctor happy to carry out the abortion, and that magic there'll let him. Maybe prayer'll work if you pray for something that is God's will. Maybe you'll choose to have the baby in the spirit of your law. Come by the maternity unit for tests, I'll have one of the nurses there call you."

He turned away from the kneeling Billy Bob and walked to the door, then turned back and said,

"Oh, one last thing. We'd need to do full tests to confirm, but she claimed it isn't hellspawn. She said she used your own sperm to fertilize a donated human egg."

Billy Bob ignored him. He brought his hands together again and began to pray. He felt just for a moment as if there was an Angel watching there, but she hadn't come for him. He felt a phantom hand over his belly.

Some of the State Senators involved the Police, but it seemed that stories of supernatural pregnancies got hushed up pretty quickly along with other weird shit. Some hired private investigators or self-proclaimed demon hunters. None of it amounted to much. Eventually, they turned up in the State House in a lot of bulky coats that seemed inappropriate for the weather and repealed the law. Officially, they felt they'd gone too far and had forgotten their compassion and the true meaning of their faith. Carrying babies gave some of them an empathy they simply hadn't wanted to possess before, and some of them came to regret the miscarriages they thought they'd wanted. Mostly, though, they were happy to be free of their unwanted pregnancies. They finally understood.

Billy Bob gave birth to a healthy baby boy by cesarean section.