To Offer Compassion: A History of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion
Autor Doris Andrea Dirks, Patricia A. Relfen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 iul 2019
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780299311346
ISBN-10: 0299311341
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10: 0299311341
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Recenzii
“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
“Provide[s] critically important social history that too many in today’s abortion wars have never known or chosen to forget.”—Publishers Weekly
“Timely and the message is on point.”—Faith Matters
“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
Notă biografică
Doris Andrea Dirks teaches at Mount Royal University. Patricia A. Relf is a freelance writer.
Descriere
In this compelling history, authors Dirks and Relf detail how the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion (CCS) assisted women in finding resources for abortion before Roe v. Wade and became outspoken advocates for women’s rights.