They start this article with pro-life talking points:
When a man and a woman of a certain age have unprotected sex, there is always the possibility a baby will be made. Such are the facts of life with which, one would assume, a doctor is familiar.
Yes indeed.
But read the article. I was bemused reading it, that a grown adult, a physician, would launch a lawsuit for this:
And yet a 42-year-old Toronto physician recently tried to sue a woman with whom he’d had a casual sexual relationship for more than $4 million in damages, claiming “non-pathological emotional harm of an unplanned parenthood.”
Here’s what the physician was unhappy about, at age 42:
To use the language of the statement of claim, PP was emotionally harmed because he was deprived of the choice of falling in love, marrying, enjoying married life and, when he and his wife thought ‘the time was right,’ having a baby,” the judge wrote in his 18-page ruling.
The man is a cad and an idiot, who passed med school. Scary.
However, he is only buying into what he’s been told his whole life… that sex need not result in babies, that sex is an itch to be scratched, something nice that comes no strings attached and that ultimately, we can all plan parenthood. (Where have I heard that phrase before?)
It is only in a world where women get the ultimate and arbitrary right to do away with or keep babies based on how they feel that a lawsuit such as this can get off the ground. They obviously felt they had a chance, and quite frankly, I would have thought they did too.
I’m sad for the child, though. A friend’s son, who is growing up without his dad, has taken to asking whether his dad was a good guy. And the obvious answer here will be, sadly, no.
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“When a man and a woman of a certain age have unprotected sex, there is always the possibility a baby will be made. ”
In fact, you can take the word “unprotected” out of that sentence, and it is still true. Plenty of children are born whose parents were using birth control, and plenty of abortions happen too after birth control fails. I wish the popular media would acknowledge this.
Agreed that the man is a cad and an idiot. That goes without saying. But what about the woman’s behaviour here? To lie about being on birth control–she’s not entirely guilt-free either. I certainly don’t think what she did is worthy of a punishment of 4 million, but I do think that it is fair for her to get called up on the carpet–so to speak–just a little bit.
But seriously, this man thought he could get four million in damages because he didn’t get the love, marriage, baby-in-a-baby-carriage order down pat? My God, what is the world coming to?
True, Melissa, I know at least a couple birth control babies. So I wish they had removed that word. We don’t know whether the woman lied, or whether hers is a birth control baby too. So here, men having sex and believing they need not be concerned with any subsequent responsibility is the problem. She kept the baby, and he’s the one who sued, so I’ll reserve my animus for him! So messy, uncomfortable and ultimately, not fun. When will the sexual revolution die?