Fair? Unfair? You decide.
Dave was found unconscious on the bathroom floor of his motel room, amidst an assortment of scattered pill bottles and a puddle of vomit. In the ER, we administered a medicine that counteracted one of the drugs he'd taken, and he gradually woke up.
“Why did you do it, Dave?” I asked.
“My girlfriend.”
“Yes, what about her?”
“She had a baby. Mine.”
“Are you unhappy about that?” I asked.
“Unhappy? I'm more than unhappy—I'm fuckin' pissed off!”
“Why?”
“We had agreed that we didn't want any kids, and she was on the Pill. She got pregnant, and I asked her how that was possible since she was on the Pill. She told me that she'd decided that she wanted a kid after all, so she stopped taking the Pill. You think she could have told me beforehand, so that I could have stopped going to bed with her? Hell no, she just went off and made that decision on her own. I asked her why she never gave me that option, and she said it was because she knew I wouldn't have sex with her anymore. See, she trapped me, and I can't do a damn thing about it. The judge told me that I'd have to pay for the kid anyhow. So, I'm stuck with a kid I don't want, and I'll never be able to trust a woman again. How could I?”
I did not have an answer.
“I'm tellin' you, Doc, it just ain't fair. Anybody who would trap someone in such a way ought to pay for the kid all by herself. She even admitted to the judge that she trapped me, but he's still making me pay. I don't want to live in a world that condones such behavior. What she did was just plain rotten, and how is she being punished? Not at all! It ain't fair!”
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