cocomonkey4 said:
Now all of a sudden she is this helpless lamb who is under control by the evil monster that is Tom Cruise? How fickle and gullible you are.
I don't think she's a helpless lamb. I didn't say that. I don't even really think she's a victim, because she went into this willingly. She's just too pathetic to inspire anything MORE than pity.
Signing autographs for your adoring fans, even in the rain, doesn't make you a good person in your personal life, sorry. I'm not buying what he's selling. If I did, THAT would make me gullible. It's not just this relationship and his public behavior that makes me angry with him either, I'm not "fickle". His comments on people with autism, learning disorders, and mental illness are beyond the pale and he has endangered lives and cost at least one - a woman in VA, I think it was, took her schizo son off of his medication and put him on vitamins after seeing Dr. Tom on the Today Show, and he subsequently stabbed her to death.
Splatooey, you're correct, the longer the pregnancy past 40 weeks, the more danger for mother and child, and the more likely there will be brain damage. If you haven't popped after about 42 weeks, they're going to induce unless you're refusing, and sign a waiver that you know you're putting your child at risk for death or brain damage. Of course, that's only in cases where the woman is seeing an actual doctor. Who knows who Katie's been seeing.
ETA info on the stabbing death - I was partially wrong, the man was not taken off his meds, he had never been on them, because GUESS WHAT! his mom is a Scientologist!
http://www.cultnews.com/index.php/2006/03/20/protest-against-scientology-and-tom-cruise-run-in-local-newspapers/ So not Tom's fault as much, but as the #1 Enthusiastic Spokesman for this "religion", he has a responsibility to the public. Sure, he'll be polite, but he wants to take away your ability to treat your post partum depression so you don't drown your baby in a bathtub. Swell guy, that Tom. Wonder if he's met with Andrea Yates' pastor, who shares his views on psychiatric drugs?