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I dunno.
Word is that Courtney Love's recent hospitalization is the result of a miscarriage. (ed: Note the possible identity of the father. What's the matter? She couldn't get a date with Colin Farrell, and had to settle for the second-skankiest guy in Hollywood?) If true, this was the loss of a pregnancy that she first leaked to the press and then denied, all while chain smoking, and in the midst of a couple of drug-related court cases.
I hear that there are paparazzi photos of an "obviously distressed" Love being wheeled out of a building, or into a hospital, something, on a stretcher.
So I feel bad for her. Of course the loss of a wanted pregnancy is a nightmare for anyone to go through. While I had two fortunate spins of the karma wheel, I know so many women who have miscarried, and I understand that it's physically difficult and emotionally agonizing.
However, although it should be said that I am not on intimate terms with any substance abusers, most women I know, while not aiming for gustatational and nutritional perfection during their pregnancies, do make an effort to lay off the sauce a bit and maybe eat some spinach in honor of the little tadpole and its various needs.
Fortunately, as women in this country, we are under no obligation to continue with any pregnncy that we'd rather terminate. But, once we make the choice to continue with a pregnancy, have we entered into some kind of agreement with the little person-to-be who is renting space in our body? Ethically, do we then owe anything to the fetus, or can we just continue on our merry inebriated way?
It's on my mind today.
On one hand, I feel all "Poor Courtney Love." On the other hand, I feel like Tony Montana: Look at that, a junkie...Don't eat nothin', sleeps all day wit dem black chades on...Her womb is so polluted, I can't even have a fucking little baby wit'er!" Not that I want to have a baby with Courtney Love, but you know what I mean.
Posted by volfie at July 11, 2004 12:05 PMI used to feel sorry for her. I don't anymore. She continues to make these absurd choices for herself and her daughter. And now another set of choices has determined the fate of yet another child. I am a firm supporter of women's rights. But make up your mind. If a woman wants to keep a child, then act like it and treat the unborn as well as we as a society demand she treat the born. Courtney, get off the drugs, get a good shrink and a therapist, and get a grip.
Posted by: Reader on July 12, 2004 12:27 PMwell, it is true that the one I feel really sorry for in all of this is her poor daughter, with a dead father, a junkie whore mother, and a swirl of (I'm assuming) freaks all around.
Posted by: terry on July 12, 2004 01:20 PMSo you feel sorry for Courtney Love? I feel sorry for Frances Bean Cobain. She lost her father. A man who never wanted the stardom that he got. A man that was taken before his time. now i am not saying who did it but it wasn't him. this man was a genius in his work.... he wrote the music and the lyrics....do you feel sorry for her? how can you? i am not saying that she had anything to do with it but defend her and you will lose
Posted by: Ryan on August 2, 2004 02:04 AMryan, i think you misunderstood. i only feel sorry for her in the same way that i feel sorry for any woman who goes through the tragedy of losing a child. of course, frances bean is the big loser in all of this. the poor girl's life is a circus with a junkie mother as ringmaster. as for kurt cobain, i've never heard a nirvana album in it's entirety and i don't know a single song except "smells like teen spirit." i've never given him a moment's thought, really. but if i did, i might take a second to think that, nothing "took" him before his time but himself and that, just maybe, if he didn't want the fame, he should have kept playing in his garage. i have a hard time drumming up a lot of sympathy for people who are rewarded with riches and recognition and then whine about the pressures of their lives.
Posted by: terry on August 2, 2004 09:10 AMAmen to that. I couldn't have said it better.
Posted by: glamoursmith on August 2, 2004 09:34 AMok - so maybe in the early 90's you were busy planning a wedding and month long honeymoon and whatever - but the only nirvana song you know is 'teen spirit'? i realize that I spent the majority of the 90's living with college students, and that may have shaped my musical choices, but nirvana rocks. i have introduced dusten to them - and many other 'must hear bands' - in order to properly shape his musical foundation. of course, dusten thinks he clued me into the existance of nirvana - ah my son loves revisionist history. but i agree with you about curt, courtney and frances. he was a junkie who mismanaged his bi-polar disorder. that was a choice. she is a smack whore in designer couture. that is a choice. but poor frances has made no choices about her life to date, and it looks like she won't have been given the tools to make good ones when it is her time to do so.
Posted by: alan on August 2, 2004 10:18 AMa smack whore in couture! I love it!!
Posted by: terry on August 2, 2004 10:30 AM