Abortions in the state of Indiana fell five percent in 2019 as compared to 2018, according to a report from the Indiana State Department of Health.

According to The Chrisitan Post, the annual Indiana Terminated Pregnancy Report found that a total of 7,637 abortions were performed in the state in 2019. In 2018, that number was 8,037.

“While we cannot specifically point to any one reason why abortion numbers dropped overall in 2019, we are encouraged in knowing that 400 fewer children were aborted in Indiana last year. That’s the equivalent of an entire graduating class in many Indiana high schools,” said Indiana Right to Life President and CEO Mike Fichter.

The drop in numbers is the lowest number of abortions reported in the state since 2016, according to Indiana Right to Life.

“Yet our hearts are still broken knowing that 7,637 children were denied the right to be born, and an untold number of women now bear the physical, emotional and spiritual burdens of those abortion decisions,” Fichter said.

“Meanwhile, abortion businesses in Indiana continue to enjoy a multimillion-dollar revenue stream at the expense of innocent babies. The lives of all unborn children matter. We will continue to work for the day when not a single abortion is done in our state.”

Most recently, the U.S. Supreme Court sent back a case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Indiana to review whether mothers should be shown an ultrasound image of the child before an abortion and if underage women should require parental notification before the abortion procedure.

The report also found:

  • Marion County reported the most abortions with 5,669. Second and third were Lake Country County with 994 abortions and Monroe County with 816 abortions, respectively.
  • The average age of a woman who had an abortion was 26.8 years.
  • About 86 percent of the women who had an abortion in 2019 were unmarried.
  • About 90 percent of the women had at least a high school diploma or GED.The following is from Pro Life Across America
    • 18 days from conception, heart begins to beat, with the baby’s own blood.
    • 28 days from conception a baby has eyes, ears, and even a tongue!
    • 28 days from conception: Muscles are developing along the future spine. Arms and legs are budding.
    • 30 days: Child has grown 10,000 times to 6-7mm (1/4”) long. Brain has human proportions. Blood flows in veins.
    • 42 days: Skeleton is formed. Brain coordinates movement of muscles and organs. Reflex responses have begun.
    • 42 days: Brain waves can be detected, the jaw forms, including teeth and taste buds. The unborn baby begins to swallow amniotic fluid. Fingers and toes are developing.
    • 45 days from conception: The unborn baby is making body movements, a full 12 weeks before the mother may notice such stirrings. By seven weeks the chest and abdomen are fully formed. Swimming with a natural swimmer’s stroke in the amniotic fluid, the baby now looks like a miniature human infant.
    • 44-45 days: Buds of milk teeth appear, and the unborn baby’s facial muscles develop. Eyelids begin to form, protecting the developing eyes. Elbows take shape. Internal organs are present, but immature. 99% of muscles are present, each with its own nerve supply.
    • 52 Days: Spontaneous movement begins. The unborn baby then develops a whole collection of moves over the next 4 weeks including hiccuping, frowning, squinting, furrowing the brow, pursing the lips, moving individual arms and legs, head turning, touching his/her face, breathing (without air), stretching, opening the mouth, yawning and sucking.                                                                                                                                                                                                                I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. Psalms 139:14-16

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