An ABC España columnist presents his piece as among the most personal he has written for the publication, dating it to March 8, 2024. He argues that a columnist should keep the article anchored in his own way of seeing the world — through his eyes, his heart and his experience — rather than letting theory take precedence over lived experience.
He writes that the family episode changed his perspective entirely on abortion, which he describes as a crime and as one of the expressions of the barbarity he sees in society today. He holds that subjective experience, in which a person's own life shapes his beliefs and values, is essential to an honest understanding of reality.
The columnist recounts walking the dogs on the morning of Three Kings' Day. While the setter chased rabbits among the chamomile, Elena became grave, moved and almost frightened as she delivered what he calls "a tremendous gift": the news that they were going to become parents to a fourth child.
In her eyes, he writes, she also carried the bad news — an intimate foreboding that had barely been put into words — that the child would never arrive.
