While the exact scenario described by Kanye doesn't seem particularly likely, and it's entirely possible from the written account that he's joking, I'm pretty sympathetic to his general concern. He obviously has no trust in the paparazzi's consideration for his child's privacy or her safety.

Taking her at her word, she thought she was paid to carry babies to term. Also, as has been mentioned, any terms in the contract - which she may or may not have understood - requiring her to have an abortion would have been legally unenforceable.

You too! Yes, discussions about abortion can get very tense very quickly. Especially in cases like this where the confluence between what is right and what is legal isn't entirely clear.

In terms of whether or not she should have had an abortion, it makes the case entirely clear. It was the surrogate's body, not the parents'.

Is it maybe to do with degrees of foetal impairment? (i.e. Legal only if the foetus is non-viable.) I don't have any evidence for that but it might explain the differing responses. Perhaps it's more clear if one speaks/reads Thai but it seems entirely feasible that, even if it would have been legal to abort the…

Everywhere I have found has said that abortion is only legal in cases of rape or where the mother's health is at risk. It's also what the map at the top of the Wiki article says. Cat 3 only means "Abortion explicitly allowed in order to save a life and for certain other reasons." It doesn't define what the reasons are.

Because the parents' desire for an abortion is in direct conflict with the surrogate's right to bodily autonomy.

Yeah... I mean, I'm not a fan of stout but I'm cool that other people are.

Yes, when I said "lager-drinkers", I meant people who do drink lager rather than necessarily prefer it over other beers. Where I live, there's a lot of ale-drinkers about who don't really approve of lager at all! And, of course, there's this lot:

I've actually just learned that they aren't two different beers made by the same company (because I don't pay attention).

They sell it as beer in the UK. I don't know who buys it.... It's cheap but you can do better for less.

Have you ever compared an American Budweiser to Budweiser Budvar (branded Czechvar in the US)? In Europe, Budvar is generally liked by lager-drinkers. Budweiser... less so.

I can't wait to see this movie! It looks fabulous. Thank you for drawing my attention to it. I live in the north east of England, and work with a lot of former miners, so the strikes and Thatcher's treatment of the miners are still very raw here. I didn't know anything about the LGBT aspect of it so it'll be great to…

The shirt is perfect.

I feel a bit weird about his assertion that the president couldn't get the flag down himself too. Like unless you can climb a fucking mountain, your opinion isn't valid?

I would be really surprised if she did drink publicly while pregnant, if only because she would come under massive scrutiny if there were (however unrelated) complications with the pregnancy.

Well, how disappointing. I was rather looking forward to seeing a medical first right here on Jezebel.

Yes, please do. We're all waiting.

I can't help but like him for his appearance on World's Most Dangerous Roads in which he and Jessica Hynes dealt with their fear by reciting This Be The Verse and The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel respectively. Sadly this does not appear to have made it to YouTube.

I was late to the party because I "discovered" Shakespeare last year and only saw Hollow Crown last summer. (I was put off by being required to dissect Hamlet in minute detail aged 14.) I think Whishaw gets less praise, or at least attention, because he doesn't really play ball with fandom. He was comfortably the…