Get yourself to a doctor - tell them you took plan B, and it didn't work, and ask bluntly no wiggle room, did it hurt the fetus??? Will it increase odds of complications, or defects in the fetus, is it still safe to go ahead with the pregnancy?

Now, if the doctor tells you no harm done, or the odds are low enough, then you can come back to the questions.

Until you've done that , the sit-com, drama queen life questions are pointless, stick to the practical. You are a grown up now, and need to concentrate on the practical, not how can I explore my artistic self. And if at 30 your not ready, baby - you will never be ready, you are play acting, get a doll. And honestly, how can you consider yourself an adult (mature enough to breed) if you need someone else's (a strangers) comments on this? What does your husband think? Get real. It sounds like you don't know what you want, and want someone else to make that decision for you - and if you and your husband can't make that decision by yourself - you are not ready for kids, and the thousands of important decisions that come with them. Only grownups should have kids.

""However, refusing to cover the cost of contraception is an underwriting decision purely and simply. Insurers know that most women (most sensible women and men, really) will buy and use birth control whether they have insurance or not,""

By that same reason, insurance knows that people will buy viagia even if they don't cover it, so why should they? It is not life threatening or nearly as dangerous as not taking birth control can be, no one will die, or have their body chemistry, and shape permanently changed if they don't get viagia? So why should the insurance company cover this drug or any other prescription drug thats say under 100$, since they know people will buy them any way?

Hey how much is a month of insulin? I mean you know they are going to buy it even if insurance doesn't cover it, because the results of not taking it are a serious health problem, hey kind of like being pregnant(which can make you diabetic! Bet the insurance companies send you an award, for that logic.

Ok, but I have to wonder about a natural zero - my 14 year old skinny, 5'5'' daughter at around 110 pds is a size 4 - so what the hell is a zero?

Under 5 ft, under 100pds for a full grown woman?

Sorry that is such a small percentage of grown women, it doesn't even get into double digits as a percentage of all women - lets say 2% and thats generous, so why are they almost 100% of the mannequins? yes there will be natural zeros , but they have to be so rare, why are they representative of how clothes are presented to the masses?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/12/AR2005051202002.html

So, are we going to bar 15% of the military from combat because of gender? Just because a few throw backs to the 50's who don't know how to behave like human beings?

If those women all came home, what would happen to the guys in Iraq? There are no troops to replace them -and those women are not secretaries or food handlers, all of those jobs are handled by outsourced contractors ... These women are in combat roles that are just not "officially" labeled as combat.

Military rape is caused by the low quality of the recruits who tend to come from non-mainstream social groups who believe women are inferior and legitimize violence against women for a wide variety of reasons. High requirements, would help... also they are having a hard time recruiting so the military lowered requirements - it is counter intuitive but lowering standards doesn't increase the number of recruits, because who wants to join an organization known for low standards? Why do the old marine adds have that Army of One?? Because they are implying they are unique and high quality - that is more likely to work.

There is no appeal to join an organization that would take anyone - my guess is if they raised all the standards alot, more people would be interested in the military as a career.

There was an article today about a Southern High School that is having its first interracial prom - this year. They have been having two proms one for whites and one for blacks up to this year. All I could think is what century is this place in? Is this place really in America, also after some trips to the deep south as a non-southern woman, I was appalled and shocked by how I was treated, it doesn't come up in my place of employeement.

At my company, I am pretty sure pay is strictly on experience, and skills. But if I was in the deep south? Perhaps the gap in pay would be huge, and if the survey was all the US and averaged out, it could be that alot of us coastal folks, don't come across this problem so often, as folks who live in the middle or south - who might be messing up the average.

I'd love to see what the gender wage gap is by region.

My wager would be the pacific northwest would not be as bad as the rest of the country. (just my unscientific guess based on how I've been treated as a business woman traveling through out the country.)