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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.
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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 Christians get involved and how? Its Murder isn’t it? Abortion What about those that are raped? Abnormal fetus’s and gender What does the bible say?
Abortion Statistics World wide in 2008 – 43.8 million
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 – 16 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?
Psalm 127:3 3 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