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It was deliberate, my skirting around the issue of abortion. There are so many opinions on that subject and I didn't want to open that can of worms. I did have Clark mention it - "whatever you decide you want to do, I'll support you" (which just opened an entirely new angle on the discussion of this in the nfic version's thread).
But since the story is over now and I can speak freely, as it were, I'll say this much. My personal opinion is that while Lois would consider the option, however briefly, she *wouldn't* have an abortion. I don't want to get into religion or politics so let's just say that - no matter what she said going into the affair with Clark - it meant more to her than just sex. Clark wasn't a fling.
I still dither over whether I should have had her miscarry or not. It was important to the plot and made the stakes higher for them both in the end. If she hadn't miscarried there would have been less to fight over and less ammunition to hurt each other. It would have changed her reaction to the revelation - it would have changed the revelation entirely. It would have been a completely different story. In the end, what I wanted for them, was to have been through hell and back with their relationship strengthened by what they had suffered and what they had learned (first hand) about each other.
It came down to the fact that I would much rather see them *deliberately* start a family than to wonder if they only stayed together because of their child.
