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In 1967, when abortion was either illegal or highly restricted in every US state, a group of ministers and rabbis founded the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion to counsel women with unwanted pregnancies. This book offers a detailed history of this unique and largely forgotten movement.

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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

To Offer Compassion A History of the Clergy

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A Paperback / softback by Doris Andrea Dirks, Patricia A. Relf

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    Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
    Publication Date: 30/07/2019
    ISBN13: 9780299311346, 978-0299311346
    ISBN10: 0299311341
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    Ethical issues, topics and debates: reproductive health, abortion and birth control

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    In 1967, when abortion was either illegal or highly restricted in every US state, a group of ministers and rabbis founded the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion to counsel women with unwanted pregnancies. This book offers a detailed history of this unique and largely forgotten movement.

    Trade Review
    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

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