The two choices for women here seem to be: Abort or face the possibility of raising the child on your own. It's not that simple. And how many women who would like to have that child will feel forced to abort if they realize they'll have to raise the child without any help from the father?

But I think that many married couples who want children face this decision AS A FINANCIAL ONE all the time. Oops, we're pregnant. Can we afford to have and raise this child?

I understand where the guys are coming from, and I hope that someday, the system will be fair for everyone. But right now it really isn't, and I feel that forcing a woman to have an abortion or support a child by herself is not providing her with a choice. Nor is it in the child's best interests, as many people have pointed out. That's why they call it "child support," not "baby mama support."

See, I just don't think that someone else should be forced to subsidize my decision (be it abortion, adoption, having the baby). As someone pointed out in an earlier post, it implies that I (by which I mean all women) must be dependent on men in this circumstance. If I get to make the decision, that means that I should take full and complete responsibility for that decision. Including financial responsibility. Why should that NOT factor in to the choice?

Or maybe it's been addressed later on (I haven't read all the letters). But the vitriol that's been spewed about this man not wanting to take financial responsibility for this unplanned child surprises me.

I DO know women who, consciously or unconsciously, have gotten pregnant "accidentally" in order to keep men in their lives. The guy's ex-girlfriend said a very telling thing--(I quote from the article:

Dubay's ex-girlfriend, Lauren, echoed many critics when she told "Good Morning America," "Everybody knows where babies come from. And it was [Dubay's] choice before the child was even conceived. That was where his choice was."

Excuse me? He thought there was no chance of their getting pregnant because SHE TOLD HIM SHE COULDN'T!!! He was in a relationship with this women. Theoretically, he ought to have been able to trust her when she said "I can't get pregnant". So did she lie to him? If she did, then she did a despicable thing. Did she make an honest mistake and then was overjoyed to find that she COULD get pregnant? In that case, having the baby was her decision, and her decision alone, and he should not be liable for that decision.

The gentlemanly thing for him to do is to pay the child support. Of course it is. He comes across as kind of a weasel for not wanting to do it. But IMO, since it WAS her decision, she should not be ASKING for child support.

(oh, and I am not some embittered man screwed by women at every turn. I'm a single woman with no children. But I've always thought that if I got pregnant accidentally, and the man I was with did not want the child, just as my body is my responsibility, the choice would ALSO be my responsibility, and I would make it on my own--with no need for support from the man.)

At awfulplasticsurgery.com, they think she's had a boob job. Check out the before and after pictures there.

Clooney has more gravitas and is more openly political than Witherspoon (AFAIK, she's not political at all). AND he's older.

And Witherspoon's dress was one of the nicer ones.

Forgive my ignorance, but the point of that would be...?

Dude! If you don't want a videotape of you getting a blowjob from a stripper getting around, umm, DON'T VIDEOTAPE YOURSELF GETTING A BLOWJOB FROM A STRIPPER!

'Nuf said.

When I was watching Slutskaya's post-skate interview, I THOUGHT I noticed a tongue piercing, but since I didn't see it again, I thought I was imagining things. Thanks for mentioning it!

And yes, I really liked her costume as well. It really suited her body type, and made her look really athletic instead of silly-frilly girly.

to TV commercials!

What happened to getting up and doing something while the commercial is on?

The last Volkswagen commercial I even noticed was the one where the two guys are driving in the desert and stop at this roadside-diner type place, and buy sushi. Which they then put in the glove compartment. Yes, it was advertising the cooled glove compartment. And my thought was "they really think people will buy a car because of THIS feature?"

Although I suppose some will.