Say what you want about Shawn Kemp, Travis Henry and Calvin Murphy; they at least had the decency to realize a multi-million dollar salary might provide an adequate opportunity to support a child.
Rick Pitino came to no such conclusion. After knocking up a girl he obviously wasn't married to (who has sex with their wife anymore?), and discovering her pregnancy, he volunteered the 3 G's it apparently takes these days to remove those pesky little consequences known as children that often follow from rampant sexual behavior.
Look, I know there are two sides to the abortion debate, and you can probably tell which side I'm on (in case there's any confusion, I'm a southern, conservative Christian who is generally happy to have been born and supports others being allowed a similar experience - you can do the math from here). But I'm also not blind to circumstances that make this choice a truly difficult and, perhaps at times, necessary one.
Regardless... no, wait.... IRregardless, I think we, as a society, can agree that fewer abortions are probably better, and if promises made to popes are to be believed (I'm Protestant, so I wouldn't know), then our President does, too. Hell, even if you're Justice Ginsburg, I don't think Rick Pitino's child falls into the population that "we" want less of.
Rick Pitino has all the resources imaginable to have given this child an upbringing and a start in life that only a privileged few in our country have the chance at. He is taking life into his own hands not because someone's health is at risk or because a woman was made, by threat, force or illegal coercion, to engage in sexual behavior. No, Pitino made this choice because it was, he thought at least, an easy way to avoid what would become the documented, public and breathing results from a stupid mistake.
Proud day for he and his family.... and any Cardinals fan that continues to cheer for him.
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