The Parent Trap: Paternal Rights and Abortion  What happens when
the girlfriend of a recently divorced father of two gets
pregnant—and she wants the baby, he doesn’t? Should men, too,
have the right to choose?  Getty Images  Greg Bruell and his
girlfriend of a year and a half, Sandra Hedrick, had a pact. "We
agreed that if we got pregnant, we'd terminate because we were
not in a stable family unit," Hedrick says. Or as Bruell more
starkly puts it, "I resumed sexual relations with her on the
condition that were birth control to fail, she'd abort without
waffling."  "Resumed," because nine months ear­lier Hedrick had
conceived a child with Bruell and the couple decided to end that
pregnancy. Or rather, he decided, and she went along. Their
relationship was too rocky—a series of breakups followed by
passionate reunions—for them to become parents together, Bruell
argued. Plus, both were still in the process of finalizing
di­vorces, and he was a newly single father struggling to
balance his needs against those of