Pregnancy and Rights Groups: Part 2

This morning while scoping my inspirations list I had come across another eye opening headline..

"Doubling of maternal deaths in U.S. 'scandalous,' rights group says"
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/12/maternal.mortality/index.html?hpt=T1
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/health/2010/03/12/am.cohen.pregnancy.crisis.new.cnn

Amnesty International which is a worldwide movement who promote international human rights for all came out with statistics on maternal death rates

1987 there was 6.6 maternal deaths per 100,000 people
2006 there was 13.3 maternal deaths per 100,000 people
the US government set a goal for 4 in the 'Healthy People 2010' Report

"Good maternal care should not be considered a luxury available only to those who can access the best hospitals and the best doctors. Women should not die in the richest country on earth from preventable complications and emergencies," Cox said in a news release. -stated on the CNN website.

Amnesty International goes on to state 'a shortage of health care professionals poses a serious obstacle to timely and adequate care, especially in rural areas and inner cities. In 2008, 64 million people were living in "shortage areas" for primary care.' and also cited 'what it called "burdensome bureaucratic procedures in Medicaid enrollment [that] substantially delay access to vital prenatal care for pregnant women seeking government-funded care."'

That hit home for me. I am one of those 64 million people. I'm not pregnant but if I were to become pregnant I'm the person who lives in the shortage area. I make 'too much' on unemployment and a part time job to receive Medicaid but I don't make enough to get health insurance. This is SCARY folks!

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Pregnancy and Rights Groups: Part 1

Last night while watching Jeffrey Ross talk about pictures getting slammed around by ghosts on 'Celebrity Ghost Stories' on the biography channel I saw a link that I immediately went to
http://www.toomanyaborted.com/



Their Vision is to stop abortion in America.
They state the statistics on their site, I was awakened. On TOOMANYABORTED.COM they state In 2006 the Abortion Surveillance Report - CDC.GOV and Factfinder - US CENSUS BUREAU came out with these statistics.

* Approx 1.2 abortions happened in 2006
* Black women abort 3 times as many as white women and 2 times as many as any other race.
* More deaths are caused by abortion than heart disease, cancer, cerebrovascular diseases, accidents, homicides, suicides and diabetes COMBINED.

That is outrageous.

To me this is a double edged sword.

When I first started speech and debate team in high school this was my very first debate. I had to chose Pro Life or Pro Abortion, I chose Pro Life for the sake of getting a good grade but to this day I am still very much Pro Choice. I did research on abortion, when it began, when it was outlawed and when it came back. I saw the mortality rate because of insufficient sterile places to complete the task. I personally would never be able to get an abortion, no matter the circumstances, there are too many other options available.
But for others, who are put in a situation where they can die if they do not go through with it, whether it be age or medical reasons/history, or for those raped or other reasons, I believe that they should have a choice. I know that my mother had an abortion before me and she could barely take care of me let alone another child. I always rationalized it, the baby was better off, my mother was better off. But neither were. The baby was never allowed to have a chance at life and all life's possibilities.

For Georgia where the black community makes up for 58.2% of the abortions being done, I think this is a great movement.

Overall, I think that there should be a choice if it comes down to death or life.
I think people should be educated of the statistics.

Old shoes New shoelaces

So in December while everyone else is done buying and wrapping Christmas presents and they are thinking about their new years resolution I'm still looking for good deals on presents for my son. I cant help that I'm a procrastinator when it comes to things I hate.. I hate shopping, I hate cliche's, I hate that i have to be at my sons school a half hour early to find a good parking spot only to get blocked in right after i pick him up, I hate animal hair on my clothes(a Lil is fine i mean like I'm COVERED), I hate being pestered while I'm working, I hate horror flicks in the dark, but the worst of all my hates IS... New Years Resolution. I cant help it, it's one of those cliche things in life that makes me dread winter time. I like to listen to every-ones idea's for a couple months and make my decision right after Valentines day which just so happens to be right when my taxes come back. My list comes to be about the same every year.

1. stop biting nails
2. lose some weight
3. get vehicle up to date
4. spend more time with son
5. work on trust issues
6. get into Nursing School already
7. quit smoking

My son is so easy to spend time with and it's almost difficult not to when we live in such a small house and he's a total mama's boy.

This year I've actually worked on my nails and was doing good for a few weeks but then my nail ripped and i was at work so i had to bite it off.. no nail clippers, don't judge me.

My truck is mostly up to date with her oil changes, but then i took her to get washed at the new Shotty's Car Wash where the guy ripped my non broken driver side mirror off, so i have to put the new one that i bought with my own money on my truck.

I finally got with some case workers at the unemployment office and even though they cant get me into ADN school they are going to get me into Patient Care Tech which will get me all the pre req's for ADN school so i can use my GI BILL to get my ADN and maybe if i dont procrastinate my BSN.

I cut down on smoking!! yay! dont judge. cut down is better than what i was doing which is a step closer to quitting!

Now.. Losing weight lol. I'm 5'6" and 235lbs. Just a little background info on how it was gained. was 150 when i found out I was pregnant with my son Aric, i gained 80lbs between Preeclampsia and the start of my selfish eating habbits, he was born in 2006. i lost half of my baby weight and was happy. i got pregnant again in 2007 with twins and at 5 months lost both babies, i became depressed and gained 45lbs. so lets do the math.. ok we all suck at it. 235. for a year i was definately in denial. if my jeans didnt fit i sucked in and zipped anyways. then i saw a picture of myself (such a cliche) and i decided that i was definately obese and majorly needed to change my eating habbits, but didnt want to. duh.. procrastinator, did i mention lazy when it comes to dieting and working out. I'm such a pessimist, whenever i look at weight loss commercials and diet pills all i ever see is the bad outcomes. like when they gained it all back. just figured it would be pointless. but. now that i have to buy scrubs in the x's and not the l's or the m's i've come to realize that i'll never look like jackie, meredith or christina unless i work out and try to eat better.
As selfish as this sounds i didnt go to wal mart and buy slimquick drink mixes, the alli starter kit, multi vitamins, a scale and a work out suit because i want my son to learn that he should not copy mommy when it comes to eating habbits. that is a great side effect to losing the weight and learning to change my lifestyle but i'm doing it because i hate the fact that i have jelly rolls that have a mind of their own and when i look at pictures of myself five years ago i pretend like it could never happen. IT CAN. i just have to be optimistic, and people. there isnt an optimistic bone in my big ol body lol. cant help it. pessimistic tendancies are genetic in my family.

anyways. so i took my first dose of slimquick this morning and havent been hungry yet. i cant take the alli pills for another week and happy about that because i have to stop eating fatty foods before then otherwise the pills grab hold to the fat and follow gravity and people the outcome is not pretty.

so *lifting my chalky liquid filled glass* here's to cliche's and blogging!

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I'm 235 lbs of Single Mom, Ambition, a bad memory and Preoccupiedness in a New world of Technology that is shoved up your butt surrounded by nonsensical humans. I like to talk about myself, the inordinate people in my life, my son, and pretty much anything that crosses my path in my life.. so feel free to read comment and follow.

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P.S. Disclosure.. i talk a lot of certain people and certain places, names of both will be fiction, most everything will not be. The funny thing about truth is if you tell the truth you wont have to remember anything.