I think that we can all agree that a loving family that wants this child would be the best outcome. But considering the circumstances—rich woman arranged to give you life and then changed her mind—wouldn't you expect her to at least financially support that child's upbringing?

No.

A well-reasoned response. For the record, the fraud is supposedly over her apparent realization that the ex wanted the child with the well-to-do Shepard in order to secure his own financial future.

Well thank gods that we have the law to sort through this sticky situation involving an actual human baby and the idiot people who signed a paper asking someone to put them on this earth. Whatever would we do without the ability to sue and pretend that what we did didn't affect someone who had no choice whatsoever in…

That was part of what I was intending with my initial comment—that if this were anyone other than a member of the panel, they'd be ripping her a new one over this.

I get that it's possibly true that the ex contrived to do this. But it doesn't matter. She agreed to give this child life. End of story. She is responsible for it. Because she is an idiot and lacking any moral fiber, I do hope that she gives it up for adoption so that it may be with a family that truly does want it.…

Plus, she'd mostly likely still have to pay for the entree.

You have no idea.

I know. It sucks to make decisions that we later regret that will have an impact on us for the rest of our lives. But this was just such a decision. This was not a new car. She doesn't get takesie backsies. She doesn't get to have regrets. I don't care if it was with the sperm of a whale and an egg of a crackhead. She…

True; I have seven fingers.

Actually, Whoopi, the giant neon pink gorilla in the room is the fact that Sherri is trying to shirk her responsibility for a child she contracted to have through a surrogate with her soon to be ex-husband, as though it were an entree she decided to send back to the kitchen when she realized that she didn't want to…

Eh—sometimes the mob thirsts for a place to go. It's happened to me before numerous times over the years and I have occasionally found the unwarranted vitriol upsetting. It is not fun to be ganged up on and categorized as satanic and unworthy of love—even from strangers—but this was amusing. I mean, as I mentioned…

Sure, but she was doing it extremely publicly and more than once. When was the last time you went to your boss and complained about your conditions at work without thinking about the consequences? That's because there can be consequences to complaining. Now imagine going to the newspapers, if you could, and getting…

You see right through my delicately constructed facade!

It was in my neck (Roger Ebert should have been the clue on that one, right?) but good advice nevertheless.

This happened to me. I ignored a lump for a long time. Years. Luckily it was a very slow moving cancer for my age at the time. Roger Ebert had the same cancer. It was not slow moving at his age. Regular check-ups, as you say.

That picture is worth a thousand articles like this one.

Oh, for god's sakes. Name one male star who goes around complaining about the writing of their movie/show, is a drama-creator on-set, doesn't come out of their trailer, sends rewrites and delays the movie every single shooting day, has a mother for a manager who is a terror by all accounts, and who criticizes the…

'Cause she's always been freaking gorgeous, that's how. She has never known anything other than what she is and apparently has not learned a thing from her comeuppance.

Dear Katherine,