Man meets woman.
Man sleeps with woman.
Woman gets pregnant.
Woman demands they marry.
They do.
Baby looks nothing like man.
Woman claims babies switched in hospital.
Man threatens to sue hospital.
Woman admits baby was fathered by second man.
Marriage gets annulled.
Court orders woman to pay man $42,000 for jerking him around in this fashion.
Okay, the last one is a giveaway that this didn’t happen in America. It happened in South Korea. If it had happened here, I somehow doubt the man would have been able to be successful in court.
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Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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If he did get into a U.S. court, he’d probably end up with a judgment against him for interfering with her reproductive freedom to claim that any man she so designated was the father of her child.
Still, I can’t absolve him entirely. If he hadn’t slept with her outside marriage in the first place, he wouldn’t have been scammed into believing he’d gotten her pregnant.