Daughter’s Suicide After Secret Abortion Leads Father to Activism

LifeSiteNews ^ | 2/6/06 | LifeSiteNews

[wagglebee]

CHERRY HILL, New Jersey, February 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Stacy Zallie ended her life at age 21, one year after undergoing a secret abortion. Although her family was close, Stacy never told them she had been pregnant and never talked about the abortion.

Her father believes it was pain over the abortion that led her to take her life. He has started a Web portal and foundation in her memory, the Stacy Zallie Foundation, that offers counseling and support to women who have had abortions.

"I knew it was a life event for her," Mr. Zallie told the CourierPost. "It was the most serious issue in that brief life of hers. I know, in my heart, it took a toll on her emotionally and mentally, that she couldn't recover from it. And it just breaks my heart that she didn't open up."

At one point Stacy asked to go in to therapy, but ended the sessions after only three months.

A successful businessman, George Zallie began the foundation after hearing women speak about the pain of living with the fallout from having an abortion, at a retreat following his daughter’s death.

"I heard guilt, remorse, loss," he recalls. "Their frankness was really astounding to me. It was helpful for me in understanding just what Stacy was going through . . . It became important to me to get the message out."

The site offers help to women who are suffering emotionally and spiritually from having ended their babies’ lives. The Foundation emphasizes the need for compassion and non-judgmental care, recognizing the depth of pain caused by abortion.

Dr. David Reardon, a post-abortion specialist and researcher, has collected extensive documentation on the effects of abortion. According to statistics, teenage girls are 10 times more likely to attempt suicide after abortion. 60 percent of women consider suicide and 28 percent attempt it after abortion.

“If I get one girl -- one girl -- to go to that site and realize that she's not alone, then it's worth it,” Mr. Zallie said.

To visit the Stacy Zallie Foundation site, go to:
http://www.stacyzallie.org

For further resources see:
http://www.afterabortion.org/

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LifeSiteNews.com Interview with Angelina Steenstra: Coordinator of Silent No More Awareness Campaign
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/may/040510b.html

[girlangler]

I was shocked to hear a pregnant, church going Baptist tell me once that all testing had shown her unborn child had no autism, or whatever, so she didn't have to have a abortion.

This was when she was pregnant with her third child.

[papertyger]

This was when she was pregnant with her third child.

And what do you suppose her demeanor toward you would have been if you had had the audacity to actually criticize her for such turpitude?

[papertyger]

... all are in need of forgiveness on an ongoing basis, whether they have had an abortion or not.

That is true enough, but if one is mindful of the Bible they know there are certain things that presage the destruction of the society practicing them.

Killing one's own children, and aggressive homosexuality seem to be the two most prominent.

[Skooz]

When I was an intravenous drug abuser and drug dealer, I would also call myself a "Christian." It was like something I was born into. My parents described themselves as Christians so so did I.

It didn't really mean that I had a relationship with Christ, but that I was not a Muslim or Hindu, etc.

[cyn]

as we see in OT references to "passing a child through the fire" for Molech -- which is a chilling appeal to evil and darkness.

Another thing about God's forgiveness, which I did not mention, is that it must be sought -- that's the problem w/"shorthand" posts!

[Sun]

"If she had never told her father about her pregnancy and abortion, what makes the father think that was the cause of her suicide? There are probably a lot of other things about her life he didn't know."

We don't know what the father knows. Do you think he would have set up a website if he didn't think that her suicide was probably from the abortion?

[eddie65]

I was going by what was in the article, which said she never told her father about her abortion and never talked about her pregnancy. Do you know something that's not in the article?

[Sun]

"Do you know something that's not in the article?"

I don't, but her father probably does - like maybe a diary, or something he doesn't wish to share.

I feel there must be a strong reason why he has set up a website so other women won't commit suicide after after an abortion.

[lugsoul]

Because it is utterly false. Do the math.

[lugsoul]

You shouldn't, because it is BS.

[lugsoul]

Can you point me to the Bible passages referencing abortion as preceding the destruction of society?

[justshutupandtakeit]

There is no doubt that some women have negative reactions to having an abortion. That was not the question just the numbers given appear false.

[Gone GF]

The headline made me think a very young girl, like 14 or 15 had snuck off and gotten an abortion without a parent being notfiied. Then I read the story and discovered she was 20. Still young and tragic, but hardly the age where she should need "permission."

"Dr. David Reardon, a post-abortion specialist and researcher, has collected extensive documentation on the effects of abortion. According to statistics, teenage girls are 10 times more likely to attempt suicide after abortion. 60 percent of women consider suicide and 28 percent attempt it after abortion."

Freepers don't accept "according to statistics" when liberals try to use it that way. Show me the hard stats.

[Dick Bachert]

Indeed a wonderful way to bring hope out of tragedy.

I wrote the following e-mail reply to a friend during Alan Keyes' run for the White House. I think it may be germaine to this thread and post it in that spirit.

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I suspect Alan would be one frustrated dude were he to win the office. He's NOT correct that the American people have "lost" their moral compasses: They took them from their pockets and THREW them away! The prevailing attitude of many American citizens is "Leave me alone so that I may sin in peace." This explains how Bill Clinton's poll numbers (or is that "pole" numbers?) could rise after they learned that he was banging an intern -- and God knows who or what else -- in the White House. Hell, Tom, that philosophy explains the entire Clinton administration!

My position on abortion has changed somewhat: I participated in a number of anti-abortion rallies and, when I was doing the radio show, had folks like Randall Terry, Mary Boyert (who is a neighbor) and others on for long interviews. I would continue to do so were I still on the air.

I have, however, come to realize that it is neigh unto impossible to deflect those who are set on killing their babies in the former sanctity of the womb from the course they have set for themselves. I have reconciled myself to an understanding that they will have to answer to a Higher Authority for their actions. I would NOT want to be in their shoes when they close their eyes for the last time. We're talking unrelenting, eternal, soul-grinding PAIN here. One trifles with HIS law at great peril! And "murder" (which was, as I understand it, the original Greek text of that Commandment) -- especially of the innocent -- is about as perilous as it gets. Many of the women who submit to abortion can be repentant and be spared the express car to hell. The "doctors" and others who facilitate and profit from the act are in BIG trouble and I doubt that He will listen to ANYTHING they have to say about how remorseful they might be at the end.

And most of these women DO suffer for killing their babies.

My pastor used to tell the story of a black pharmacist friend who could nearly always tell which of his customers had had an abortion. They had this incredible sadness about them and were emotionally very tight when they came in to get their tranquilizer scripts filled. He was also a strong pro-lifer and on more than one occasion, he gently probed to ask some of those he got to know why they were on these medications for such long periods. Almost without exception, they "broke" right there in the store and wept as they told him that they'd killed their baby. You see, all but the hardest cases KNOW in their heart of hearts (where God lives) that they'd done a terrible thing.

I'm about as staunch a libertarian as you'll meet and don't want government messin' with me and mine. But I also understand that if the civil government (which IS, when things are in proper order "...ordained of God..." according to the Bible I read) can not only countenance but ENCOURAGE us to defy God's laws in ANY way, THERE WILL BE NO FREEDOM! PERIOD!!

The NEXT step in this pernicious process of cheapening life is to begin to rid society of the old and the infirm (what Hitler called the "useless eaters"). You and I are old enough to soon qualify for this new state "service" and could, unless we come to our senses, one day be taken to a nearby Euthanasia Center for "treatment."
You're probably old enough to remember a time when American women DIDN'T kill over a million babies each and every year those who did were viewed as pariahs.

Then consider that the MTV Generation -- the one that helped elect the reprobate now infesting the White House -- DOESN'T remember ANY of that and, if not already, will soon be the majority.

And THAT scares me -- maybe to death!
Dick Bachert

[World'sGoneInsane]

Twenty eight percent attempt suicide after an abortion? I don't believe this statistic.

That's over one out of four. I don't thing so.

Just playing this situation out. What if the suicide was after the birth? We could chalk it up to post-partum depression. I could go on...but there are just too many variables here.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Plus we need to know what percentage of women have ever contemplated suicide abortion or no.

[Sun]

Women's Suicide Rates Highest After Abortion, New Study

http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/re...sabortion.html

P.S. Just in case your search engine doesn't work, Gone GF. :)

[papertyger]

Can you point me to the Bible passages referencing abortion as preceding the destruction of society?

There is no such passage as the term "abortion" is not in the Bible.

My comment regarded the killing of one's own children which was what happened when said children were "pass through the fire." Jeremiah 32: 35-36 is a specific passage decreeing judgment, but I'd recommend a comprehensive search for various iterations of the term, as well as "Molech."

[Gone GF]

Hmmm, that link leads me to something about a file not existing.

[lugsoul]

Can you square the application of this to unborn children with the punishment decreed for harming a pregnant woman causing injury to the baby?