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Both of you´re last proposal are equally possible with Ellis as the mother. If you look back on the whole Alzheimers storyline, Ellis could have easily done the swaering thing once again with Meredith. Also you´re right about the fact that Ellis wasn´t a very warm mother. But on that point: Being Ellis as we knew her: Why wouldn´t she just had an abortion? Or where there complication with the law?(I don´t know the US state laws, because i´m from germany and i´m a men, but in (West)Germany abortion was forbidden by law until the 1990s, in east Germany it was legal under some circumstances till the GDR dissolved ) Also Ellis suicid attempt had to be somewhere around the time of conceiving Maggie, because after that she never saw Richard again, until the liver thing in the second season. But it is also possible that Maggie isn´t  the lovechild of Ellis and Richard but instat the lovechild of Ellis and someone else.