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Posted on 02/06/2006 4:20:23 PM PST by 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/
See related LifeSiteNews articles:
LifeSiteNews.com Interview with Angelina Steenstra: Coordinator of Silent No More Awareness Campaign
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/may/040510b.html
What's to square?
If you see that as consistent with treating harming an unborn child as a 'killing' then I'm not sure you know what 'consistent' means.
The very soul of liberalism (and no small amount of evil itself) is to try to define one thing as something else. Such is the case here.
You are engaging in what I call the fallacy of the axe. "I've been using this same axe for thirty years. Only two new heads, and three new handles!" The failure to recognize distinctions does not change those distinctions.
The Scripture you so delicately parse is referring to the inadvertent injury of a pregnant bystander: not an attack directed at one, or her unborn child.
You are under no obligation to agree with my contention that abortion is parallel to the ancient forms of infanticide, but to try to make abortion parallel to miscarriage due to accidental injury is as intellectually criminal as Dan Rather dismissing possible rape charges as a matter of "private sex lives."
I understand you are trying to establish the "value" of an unborn child in the absolute sense from Scripture. (You will note what you call "fines" are actually damages at the discretion of the father, and ratified by the judge: not the other way round.)
What I find repugnant is you see Exodus 21: 22-23 as proving the unborn have less inherent value, rather than seeing it as a prohibition against the father killing the culprit outright, as in other more contingent cases of manslaughter. I wouldn't make light of the fact the father gets to "name his own price" in lieu of other forms of retribution.
You may not be sure I know what "consistent" means, but I'm positive your approach to morals, ethic, and Scripture is that of an "outhouse attorney" alternating with a schoolboy trying to pass himself off by affecting a foreign accent.
As far as what you are 'positive' of, you know nothing of me, my faith or my morals, and your pretension to know them shows you for what you are.
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Indeed?
You don't suppose I can make certain deductions based on statements like:
I've seen the argument that the passage only refers to inadvertence, or accident, but somehow I don't see those words or any words setting forth that requirement...
when made about a passage of Scripture that clearly says
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her... ?
Pick your translation. There is apparently no ambiguity to the various translators.
No, I dare say your inscrutability is more conceit than substance. And your confident declaration of my "pretention to know" is little more than a philosophical child hiding behind his own hands.
You are correct. For some reason link is not working, but I saved it in my personal files:
Women's Suicide Rates Highest After Abortion, New Study
David C. Reardon
Elliot Insitute
Nov. 29, 2005
Reproduced with Permission
Compared to women who have not been pregnant in the prior year, deaths from suicide, accidents and homicide are 248% higher in the year following an abortion, according to a new 13-year study of the entire population of women in Finland.
The study also found that majority of the extra deaths among women who had abortions were due to suicide. The suicide rate among women who had abortions was six times higher than that of women who had given birth in the prior year and double that of women who had miscarriages.
The epidemiological study, published in the European Journal of Public Health, was conducted by Finlands National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health (STAKES). The researchers looked at data between 1987 and 2000 on all deaths among women of reproductive age (15 to 49).
While the risk of death from suicide, accidents, and homicide was highest among women who had abortions within the prior year, the risk of death was lowest among women who gave birth within the prior year, who had less than half the death rate of women who had not been pregnant. The risk of death following a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy, however, did not significantly differ from the risk of death among non-pregnant women.
The new study confirms findings from previous record-based studies carried out in Finland and the United States that have found elevated risks of death among women who have abortions. A 1997 government-funded study in Finland found that aborting women were 3.5 times more likely to die within the next year compared to women who gave birth.
In addition, researchers examining death records linked to medical payments for birth and abortion for 173,000 California women found that aborting women were 62 percent more likely to die than delivering women over the eight year period examined. That study also found that the increase risk of death was most prominent from suicides and accidents, with a 154 percent higher risk of death from suicide and an 82 percent higher risk of death from accidental injuries.
The lead author of the California study, David Reardon, Ph.D., said that record-linkage studies are vital to getting an accurate picture of pregnancy-associated mortality rates. "In most cases, coroners simply have no way of knowing that the deceased recently had an abortion, which is why these new record linkage studies are so important," he said.
Indeed, another recent study by government health officials in Finland found that 94 percent of maternal deaths associated with abortion could not be identified by looking at death certificates alone. This finding applies to the data published by the Centers for Disease Control in the United States.
Previous studies have also linked abortion to higher rates of substance abuse, anxiety, sleep disorders, suicidal thoughts, psychiatric illness, relationship problems, and risk-taking behavior, any of which may increase a womens risk of death by suicide or accident. The authors of the new Finland study also speculated that there might be common risk factors between having an induced abortion and dying from an accidental injury, and called on medical professional to be aware of these risks.
"Women seeking abortions should be informed that abortion is associated with significant physical and mental health risks, and it also deprives them of numerous physical and mental health benefits associated with childbirth." Reardon said. "It is especially important for health care providers to be aware of these risks and the risk factors which identify those women who are at highest risk. Providing women with the resources to help them resolve emotional issues relating to past abortions will not only increase their well-being but may possibly save their lives."
Sources:
M. Gissler et. al., "Injury deaths, suicides and homicides associated with pregnancy, Finland 1987-2000," European J. Public Health 15(5):459-63 (2005).
M Gissler et. al., "Pregnancy Associated Deaths in Finland 1987-1994 -- definition problems and benefits of record linkage," Acta Obsetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica 76:651-657 (1997).
DC Reardon et. al., "Deaths Associated With Pregnancy Outcome: A Record Linkage Study of Low Income Women," Southern Medical Journal 95(8):834-41 (2002).
M. Gissler, et. al., "Methods for identifying pregnancy-associated deaths: population-based data from Finland 19872000," Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 18(6): 448-55 (2004).
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I don't doubt that suicide and suicide attempts are higher among women who have had an abortion, but I'd have to see proof before I believe that 28 percent attempt suicide or 60 percent think of it. This article doesn't address those numbers and they're what I was asking for proof of.
As I said before, Freepers don't accept "according to statistics" from liberals.
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Two months later I went over to her place, I found letters that she had been writing to her aborted child on her nightstand. She had decided that she was a girl, gave her a name and everything. The letters were the saddest things that I have ever read in my life, full of heart-felt apologies and a sense of loss. No, I wasn't sneaking, she knew that I read them.
She never got over it.
Thank you for this post, wagglebee, and for the ping to it, cp.
You might want to do your own research and get EXACTLY what you are looking for.
Peace
Actually, the woman has already been hurt, as the passage says directly, so the "mischief" that follows cannot be injury to her. So what's the mischief, then? Seems to me that it's only applicable to the baby. So with that in mind, "yet no mischief follow" must mean that the baby survives ok, but the perpetrator still must pay a fine for causing the trauma in the first place.
"Life for life" etc then must mean that the perpetrator pays for the baby's life with his own, or whatever injury the baby suffers as a result of the traumatic birth.
Exodus 21:22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. Exodus 21:23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Exodus 21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Exodus 21:25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
I tip my hat to you. I believe you have the right of it.
God bless this bereaved father. I can just imagine the sleepless nights he and the girl's mother are experiencing, wishing their daughter had let them help her recover from her grief and shame.
Sadly, 7 out of ten women who have abortions say they are Christians. Of those, a significant number of them describe themselves as evangelical. I pray they find stronger connections with other Christian women who can help them avoid premarital sex and other actions God would not approve.
It actually makes sense because Christians make up the majority of people in the U.S. Evangelicals are pretty strict with their abortion rules so many have to hide their decisions. I pray for their souls as well. I am Catholic and we have pretty strict rules as well, but this story does not breakdown the numbers of Catholics who have abortions.
First of all. Stop picking on this poster because you did not say some - YOU SAID SIGNIFICANT and guess what I answered your statistics as well. BTW, since your getting mad at others, where did you get this statistics????? Just because you don't remember what you put on posts does not give you the right to yell at others.
Kind of a wierd use of the word "wonderful" there... It makes it look like your care for The Cause exceeds your care for this poor lost child.
A silver lining doesn't undo the storm damage.
Good for you for defending yourself...I posted something later on down the line. I don't know where this person comes from. Sorry you have to put up with this rude self absorbed bitter and very forgetful person (which I say loosely)!!!!
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