A story which is HUGE in my personal world right now comes to me courtesy of the UK; so bear with me if you haven't heard this one. The UK parliament yesterday had a vote to decide whether the abortion limit should be lowered rom 24 weeks to 20 weeks. Let me repeat: 24 weeks to 20 weeks. Wtf??? I am obviously coming from a more pro-life viewpoint (aside from being a modern- orthodox Jew, I am not sure anyone can through fertility issues and not be more to the pro-life fight), however, watching women standing outside for THEIR right to be allowed to abort their baby until 24 weeks was disgusting.
This isn't even about baby's right.. this is about 1) why someone who has made a conscious decision to have sex sans protection would not consider they MAY get pregnant, and 2) why it would take someone 24 weeks to decide they don't want a baby in their life.
I understand (semi) that people can't handle a baby right now, for their own reasons, and I understand some people don't care and will abort- but I feel so strongly that the limit should be 12 weeks. 3 months is definitely long enough for someone to decide, never mind the fact research shows babies born at 24 weeks can survive.
The UK has over 197,000 abortions a year. What country sets out to achieve this statistic? It may also interest you to know that the UK also has the highest number of (single) mothers under 16 in Europe. How embarrassing to a country which purportedly prides itself on propriety.
Furthermore, there is a huge girl gang/ yob culture (yobs are fortunately somewhat unknown in this country, and are mostly drunk soccer hooligan-type who are teenage boys between 10-25 for the most part who vandalize, attack innocent people for 'fun', behave anti- socially.. anyway you get the general impression) which i fully believe is due to all these young single mother/ broken family types.
Why can't people who obviously can't care for their kids put them up for adoption? Or if they must, indeed do an abortion but do it before 12 weeks? What kind of a society are we living in these days???
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
OB Experience
I went this morning for my OB appointment. Aside from needing to wait 45 mins due to a 'medical emergency' (these always seem to happen to me.. I must give off that vibe... last time at my RE I waited 45 mins naked from the waist down for my ultrasound), and the doctor having some very interesting pics on his wall- more about that later- everything seemed to be looking good.
DH came in with me to the examination room, and I think it was awkward for him because I don't think any guy wants to see his wife be touched up- the one saving grace however was that he had a humour moment when apparently after the Dr removed the speculum (I had a pap smear, yay me) something 'yellow and gooey fell out of the floor'... no prizes to anyone who guessed, but it was indeed the prometrium coating. Good stuff.
As I mentioned before, the Dr was more than a little quirky.. very nice, but totally quirky. He had all the regular dr certificates on his wall, but also a 'deep sea diver' certification, and many cartoon and drawn pictures of a dr either delivering a baby, explaining about sex or the view for the woman when her feet are in stirrups etc etc. Bizarre.
However, no appointment of mine is complete without a heart-stopping moment. Mine came when he did the ultrasound- he swung it round to show me how big the baby got, the heartbeat etc, but whe he printed off the picture it said 6w6d and showed me as being smaller than on Monday. I totally freaked out as we made our way back to the doctors office....
Once seated, he kept reassuring us everytting was ok, and finally I blurted out 'umm if everything is so good why am I measuring less than I was on Monday..' He looked at me kindly and explained his machine isn't as hi-tech as at my RE's office. Thanks for explaining that before, man.
Anyway, next appointment in three weeks, but I did leave the office with a question which I now want to pose to you all.
I explained that before I went on BCP (i was on loestrin) I never ever had problems- my period was totally regular, I had tons of goo every month (sorry for TMI) to show I was ovulating etc.. I had absolutely no PCOS signs. He said this was very weird, but I also know a few other people who this happened to.. What about the rest of the PCOS'ers? Did you have problems before BCP?
DH came in with me to the examination room, and I think it was awkward for him because I don't think any guy wants to see his wife be touched up- the one saving grace however was that he had a humour moment when apparently after the Dr removed the speculum (I had a pap smear, yay me) something 'yellow and gooey fell out of the floor'... no prizes to anyone who guessed, but it was indeed the prometrium coating. Good stuff.
As I mentioned before, the Dr was more than a little quirky.. very nice, but totally quirky. He had all the regular dr certificates on his wall, but also a 'deep sea diver' certification, and many cartoon and drawn pictures of a dr either delivering a baby, explaining about sex or the view for the woman when her feet are in stirrups etc etc. Bizarre.
However, no appointment of mine is complete without a heart-stopping moment. Mine came when he did the ultrasound- he swung it round to show me how big the baby got, the heartbeat etc, but whe he printed off the picture it said 6w6d and showed me as being smaller than on Monday. I totally freaked out as we made our way back to the doctors office....
Once seated, he kept reassuring us everytting was ok, and finally I blurted out 'umm if everything is so good why am I measuring less than I was on Monday..' He looked at me kindly and explained his machine isn't as hi-tech as at my RE's office. Thanks for explaining that before, man.
Anyway, next appointment in three weeks, but I did leave the office with a question which I now want to pose to you all.
I explained that before I went on BCP (i was on loestrin) I never ever had problems- my period was totally regular, I had tons of goo every month (sorry for TMI) to show I was ovulating etc.. I had absolutely no PCOS signs. He said this was very weird, but I also know a few other people who this happened to.. What about the rest of the PCOS'ers? Did you have problems before BCP?
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