Lori_K

We've all been talking about posting some progress pics, so I figured what the hell....I'll throw some up there!! The first one is me running my marathon one month before surgery (still can't believe I lugged that extra weight for 26.2 miles!!) The second one was taken this morning. Sorry if they come out ginormous....not a techie who knows how to size them. Anyway....c'mon Double V's..join me in posting your progress!!
-Amy

I just read this article -- even though it's old -- very potent stuff out of the UK:
Fifty babies a year are alive after abortion - Times Online
A few excerpts -- but the entire article is worth reading!
A GOVERNMENT agency is launching an inquiry into doctors’ reports that up to 50 babies a year are born alive after botched National Health Service abortions.

Its guidelines say that babies aborted after more than 21 weeks and six days of gestation should have their hearts stopped by an injection of potassium chloride before being delivered. In practice, few doctors are willing or able to perform the delicate procedure.

“They can be born breathing and crying at 19 weeks’ gestation,” he said. “I am not anti-abortion, but as far as I am concerned this is sub-standard medicine.”
The number of terminations carried out in the 18th week of pregnancy or later has risen from 5,166 in 1994 to 7,432 last year.

The issue will be highlighted by Gianna Jessen, 28, who survived an attempt to abort her. She is to speak at a parliamentary meeting on December 6 organised by the Alive and Kicking campaign, which is lobbying for a reduction of the abortion limit to 18 weeks.
Jessen, a musician from Nashville, Tennessee, was left with cerebral palsy but is to run in the London marathon next April to raise funds for fellow sufferers.
“If abortion is about women’s rights, then what were my rights?” she asked.

Ok, good things first:
Rave! My weight is 219 today, woot! Finally out of the 220's, and into the teens! Onederland is feeling closer, some work to do yet though. TOM is coming up, I hope I don't go back into the 220's Dang hormones!
Rant! at 219, my BMI is STILL 40. Bleh! The BMI moves so slow. I'm really not overweight, I'm undertall!

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Ok, good things first:
Rave! My weight is 219 today, woot! Finally out of the 220's, and into the teens! Onederland is feeling closer, some work to do yet though. TOM is coming up, I hope I don't go back into the 220's Dang hormones!
Rant! at 219, my BMI is STILL 40. Bleh! The BMI moves so slow. I'm really not overweight, I'm undertall!