1. Breaking the silence on Abortion

2. Abortion The Facts How 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? Abnormal fetus’s and gender

4. Abortion Statistics Abortions by State and Age 2009 State Total Australia NSW/A CT VIC/TA S QLDSA/NTWA 0-194,0532,0872,4789441,37110,933 20-246,7424,0813,7311,5932,09118,238 25-3411,4067,1415,9382,1812,92529,591 >=356,9264,8783,1831,1341,66217,783 Unknown000011 Total29,12718,18715,3305,8528,05076,546 World wide in 2008 – 43.8 million

5. Reason given for abortions Reason given for abortionNumberPercentage Specified medical condition 230.5 Serious handicap of foetus 1603.2 Mental health of woman4,86096.3 Pre-existing psychiatric disorder 40.1 Sexual Assault (eg rape or incest) 10.0 Total5,048100%

6. Feotus at 4 weeks

7. Foetus at 8 weeks

8. Foetus 12 weeks

9. Foetus 16 weeks

10. Foetus 20 weeks

11. Foetus 24 weeks

12. Foetus 28 weeks

13. Foetus 36 weeks

16. MethodNumberPer cent Dilatation and currettage1683.3 Hysterotomy-abdominal10.0 Hysterectomy10.0 Vacuum aspiration3,71073.5 Vaginal prostaglandin601.2 Dilatation and evacuation4188.3 Oral or vaginal Misoprostol210.4 Methotrexate +/- prostaglandin00.0 Mifepristone +/- Misoprostol66813.2 Other10.0 Total5,048100.0

17. 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

18. Thinking Biblically about Abortion Psalm 139 :13 – 16 For you created my inmost being; For 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 NIV 15 Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?

19. Psalm 127:3 3 Children are a heritage from the L ORD, 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,

20. Breaking the silence on Abortion