breaking the silence on abortion
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Breaking the silence on Abortion. Woman’s body womans choice. Help I have had an abortion . The Facts How many ? Why? How ?. Its just a blob of tissue. ?. It my business it doesn’t effect any one else. Should C hristians get involved and how?. Its Murder isn’t it?. Abortion. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Breaking the silence on
Abortion
Abortion
The FactsHow many ?Why? How ?
Woman’s body
womans choice
Its Murder isn’t it?
It my business it doesn’t effect
any one else
Help I have had
an abortion
What does the bible say?
Its just a blob of tissue
Should Christians get involved and how?
?What about
those that are raped?Abn
ormal
fetus
’s an
d
gend
er
Abortion Statistics
Abortions by State and Age 2009 State Total Australia
NSW/ACT
VIC/TAS
QLD SA/NT WA
0-19 4,053 2,087 2,478 944 1,371 10,933
20-24 6,742 4,081 3,731 1,593 2,091 18,238
25-34 11,406 7,141 5,938 2,181 2,925 29,591
>=35 6,926 4,878 3,183 1,134 1,662 17,783
Unknown 0 0 0 0 1 1
Total 29,127 18,187 15,330 5,852 8,050 76,546
World wide in 2008 – 43.8 million
Reason given for abortionsReason given for abortion Number Percentage
Specified medical condition 23 0.5
Serious handicap of foetus 160 3.2
Mental health of woman 4,860 96.3
Pre-existing psychiatric disorder 4 0.1
Sexual Assault (eg rape or incest) 1 0.0
Total 5,048 100%
Feotus at 4 weeks
Foetus at 8 weeks
Foetus 12 weeks
Foetus 16 weeks
Foetus 20 weeks
Foetus 24 weeks
Foetus 28 weeks
Foetus 36 weeks
Examples of sensory & physical attributes of unborn child
Weeks
from conception
Size
Sensitive to touch 6 weeks 2 & 3 1.6cm (crown – rump)
Turning head; moving legs, arms and hands; squinting; hands touch face, etc 8 weeks 2 3.1cm
(Crown – heel length 4.3 cm)
Sucking their thumb 9 weeks 2 4.1
Yawning 10 weeks 2 5.4cm
Displaying a range of complex facial expressions 11 weeks 2 7.4cm
Starting to taste 12 weeks 3 8.7cm(Crown – heel length 12 cm)
Kicking and curling toes, grasping feet and scratching with fingernails 12 weeks 4 8.7cm
Reacting to amniocentesis needle 14 weeks 3 11.6cm
Hearing* 14 weeks 3 11.6cm
Doing somersaults 16 weeks 5 14.2cm (crown – rump)
Acquired mothers’ personal accents and speech sounds** 22 weeks 6 30cm
Capable of living outside mother’s womb(age of viability)*** 21-22 weeks 7 29-30cm
Method Number Per cent
Dilatation and currettage 168 3.3
Hysterotomy-abdominal 1 0.0
Hysterectomy 1 0.0
Vacuum aspiration 3,710 73.5
Vaginal prostaglandin 60 1.2
Dilatation and evacuation 418 8.3
Oral or vaginal Misoprostol 21 0.4
Methotrexate +/- prostaglandin 0 0.0
Mifepristone +/- Misoprostol 668 13.2
Other 1 0.0
Total 5,048 100.0
Effects on mothers Suicide
Depression Trauma
Eating disorders Substance abuse
Coercion Guilt Grief
Divorce Chronic relationship problems
Unresolved trauma Child abuse
Repeat abortions Self punishment
Immediate physical complications – bleeding, infection Long term health effects – infertility, Increase risk of breast cancer
Thinking Biblically about Abortion
Psalm 139 :13 – 16For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Job 31:15 NIV15 Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?
Psalm 127:33 Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him.
Psalm 106:37 37 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to false gods
Romans 12:2 (NIV)2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.JB Phillips - Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould,
Breaking the silence on
Abortion