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• Sunday, October 5, 2008 02:25 PM

  Entrapment

  Now she wants him to take care of her lying ass as well as the baby. Bugger him, eh?

  Should a 22 year old boy demand a doctor's note? Could you believe a doctor's note? Is the female not in control here to a large degree?

  Well, to quote someone I know, with editing to prove a point.....

  A man has the choice to use birth control or even to not engage in sex -- he has a lot of choice before the act that produces children --- and seems to surprise everyone.

  I don't condone entrapment. However, I do have to ask why he simply accepted her word for it instead of taking responsibility for his own actions and insisting on, at the least, using a condom. Seems like the smart thing to do in an era of such dangerous sexually transmitted diseases.

  You were unsympathetic to the girl who used birth control, yet still got pregnant, yet you expect sympathy for this young man who wasn't even aware enough to protect himself from, at the very minimum STDs?

  The option of having a choice does not necessarily mean that all unplanned pregnancies will result in abortion. I would love for adoption to be a more viable answer, but that just isn't the case. I would love for contraception to be truly foolproof and universally available but, again, that is not the case. I would love to see a time when the word 'choice' is associated exclusively with loving adults conceiving babies they planned for. But that is not the world that we live in Heru-ur, and to pretend otherwise is just dishonest.

  —Pedinska Read Pedinska's other letters
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