And can you cite any relevant studies proving smoking at the level the mother did leads to an increased risk of miscarriage?
The question isn't about whether she should or shouldn't. The question is should the government act as a type of moral enforcer in this situation. The answer is HELL NO by most. And, in case you didn't know, miscarriages happen. More frequently than any of us would like. The mother may be receiving the best prenatal care imagineable and still miscarry. What good is saving the life of the child over the mother, if the odds of the baby to carry to term were low anyways? Now, the family is without a mother and the ability to grow. Using the government to force your own ideals on others is tyrannical, and in this case, simply monstrous.

what does being gay have anything to do with this?

So, due to a decision over the telephone, a kid is dead, based on the person on the other end of the phone.
If a doctor, in every circumstance chooses to risk the mother's life over the sake of the child's, we'll be seeing a lot less mothers and baby's alike. Pregnancies don't always go well, even with the best prenatal care. It's a sad issue we have to deal with in life, but assuming the baby's life is in danger due to smoking is skewed, to say the least. Just because I'm not a doctor doesn't mean I don't know my body better than he does. If that was the case, I'd be looking like King Leonitus right now. For more brainwashing propaganda about the unproven dangers of second-hand smoke go to www.thetruth.org

Please show me some sort of relevant study correlating teh level of smoking this woman engaged in with abortions, then prove the correlation was actually causation. Otherwise, you don't have an argument.

Some pretty horrible assumptions to make about someone you know so little about. smoking and taking narcotics are two insanely different things. People were doing it way before Comrade Surgeon General whoever told us smoking was bad for us. There's no proof, no autopsy proving that smoking caused the abortion. People smoke through pregnancy a lot. If in that eyes makes her a monster, that makes every pregnant woman eating fast food a monster and a 'piece of human trash' for forcing her fetus to ingest that malnutritious garbage.

Not in California. The tution increase most likely falls in line with a budget gap that will also lead to higher taxes in the state. Their colleges there are HEAVILY taxpayer subsidized. I doubt the students would pay such an increase, without an equal increase to the taxpayers.

It's amazing. They are all defending him based on his work as a supposed "artist". I'm sure Charles Manson thought he was an "artist" too. Hitler fancied himself an "artist". So did Musollini. In fact, there seems to be a rather disturbing correlation between self-described impassioned "artists" and psychopaths.
Ridicuous.. Would anyone defend Hitler or Mao or any number of these monster's careers as an "artist" against the "smear campaigns" caused by their occassional genocide or heinous crimes? NO! For the love of something, HE RAPED A CHILD. They must be suffering from Michael Jackson Delusional Syndrom.