[stuartcr]

I don't have kids, so what is the proper thing to do with a pregnant 12 yo?

[MarkL]

This really says a lot about Barkin... Up till this moment, I thought that she was one of the sexiest women ever on the screen (from "The Big Easy" and "Bad Company" - With Lawrence Fishburn, not the one with Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock). Not any more!

For what it's worth, my best friend was in exactly that situation, although a bit older. When she was 14, she got pregnant, and her parents forced her to get an abortion. She was told that she would have the abortion, or she was to be kicked out, and disowned by her entire family. To say that she was damaged by he experience is a huge understatement. It's something that she thinks about nearly every day. Of course, as soon as she was old enough (16) she moved out and has been on her own ever since, with no contact with her family. And that's caused her plenty of problems as well, but that's another story.

Mark

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Even Dr. Mengele took the young girls calmly, soothingly...

[<1/1,000,000th%]

She could abort her 12-year-old daughter and save herself the trouble. Isn't that just a "partial-birth abortion"?

[uncitizen]

Actress Ellen Barkin, who stars in the film "Palindromes," startled those attending the Venice Film Festival this week by saying she would force her daughter to have an abortion.

It's her daughters body not hers. Shouldn't her daughter be able to determine what happens to her own body?

[DallasJ7]

Even as someone who supports legal first-trimester abortion, this is beyond disgusting. Ugh.

[Casloy]

We don't care what has been actresses think. If someone can get Catherine Zeta Jones to say something like this I'll look, er.. I mean listen.

[Lorianne]

So much for "choice"