[Madame Dufarge]

Am I reading you correctly?

Get real, will you?

I'm advocating freedom from busybodies, not doing harm to the unborn.

[LionelHutz]

No, I think I'd like to push this a bit. I've seen two responses here to those that criticize women that smoke while pregnant:

1. There is no real danger to unborn children if there mother smoke.

2. People that criticize mothers that smoke should mind their own business.

If your argument includes #1, then I think that should be the debate. Go ahead and try to make the case that smoking does not harm the unborn.

But if you are arguing #2 without establishing #1, then you are saying nothing other that "it's my body, so it's my choice."

And to go just one step further, if a non- (or anti-, whatever) smoker confronts a pregnant woman who is smoking based on a good faith belief that the smoking is harming the child, isn't that person defending the unborn? If you have a response to them, shouldn't it be only to inform them that they have been "duped" by the anti-smoking forces on this issue?