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To Offer Compassion: A History of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion

By Doris Andrea Dirks, Patricia A. Relf
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By Doris Andrea Dirks, Patricia A. Relf
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In 1967, when abortion was either illegal or highly restricted in every U.S. state, a group of ministers and rabbis formed to counsel women with unwanted pregnancies-including referral to licensed physicians willing to perform the procedure. By 1973, when the Roe v. Wade court decision made abortion legal nationwide, the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion (CCS) had spread from coast to coast, referred hundreds of thousands of women for safe abortions without a single fatality, become a...

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