[ WP ] You live in a world where , due to overcrowding , a pregnant couple must announce the pregnancy to the town . The town then votes as to whether or not the pregnancy is of sufficient pedigree to permit the child to live . A vote of no and the town aborts the baby .

`` Quickly, get in!'' she heard him yell at he from his truck in garage. 
 
 Her heart beat quickly in her chest. She still held the corded phone in her hand, unable to remove her eyes from the television. 
 
 Suddenly, he was beside her, pulling her along with him. She got up into the passenger seat. He looked over at her and saw the disbelief, the shock in her face, started the engine of his truck, and pulled out. 
 
 `` No one, no one, will stop us from having this baby,'' he tried to reassure her. `` I love you.'' 
 
 She remained silent, still unable to believe what she had just seen on the local news. Her town, her friends, her highschool classmates, her co-wokers, *her* town had voted no. Had ruled that her child, that *their* child, was an `` unacceptable exigency''. 
 
 `` Sam!'' he yelled, `` you have to snap out of it and think now.'' 
 
 She shook and noticed her surroundings. The truck moving quickly down the freeway, and behind it red and blue flashing lights. 
 
 `` I'll run with you forever,'' he almost begged her. 
 
 But she knew this was n't right. The thing inside her was n't to be a part of her community, her community had said no, the thing inside her was n't even really *human*. 
 
 Sam looked calmly at Kyle and said, `` Stop the car.'' 
 
 `` Please Sam, Please! We do n't have to do this!'' he begged nearly crying. 
 
 `` Stop the car'' she said again, looking at him.
