To Offer Compassion

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A History of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion

Doris Andrea Dirks, Patricia A. Relf

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University of Wisconsin Press
30 July 2019

Feminism & feminist theory; Ethical issues: abortion & birth control

In 1967, when abortion was either illegal or highly restricted in every U.S. state, a group of ministers and rabbis founded the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion (CSS) to counsel women with unwanted pregnancies—including referral to licensed physicians willing to perform the procedure. By the time Roe v. Wade made abortion legal nationwide in 1973, CCS had grown into a surprisingly outspoken national medical consumer and women’s rights advocacy group. To Offer Compassion offers a detailed history of this unique and largely forgotten movement, drawing on extensive interviews with original participants and on primary documents from the CCS’s operations.

By: Doris Andrea Dirks, Patricia A. Relf
Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780299311346
ISBN 10: 0299311341
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 30 July 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Doris Andrea Dirks teaches at Mount Royal University. Patricia A. Relf is a freelance writer.

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

Provides critical historical evidence and lessons for the reproductive justice movement of today. Relying on oral testimonies from aging clergy involved with CCS and limited archival sources (given the clandestine nature of the work), Dirks and Relf reco Timely and the message is on point. --Faith Matters Provide[s] critically important social history that too many in today's abortion wars have never known or chosen to forget. --Publishers Weekly To Offer Compassion provides a glimpse of a rare moment in American history when Christian ministers and Jewish rabbis were at the forefront of the campaign for abortion rights. . . . [Dirks and Relf] were able to capture a vanishing--and for some, nearly forgotten--moment in the history of liberal religious abortion rights activism. --Church History