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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 medical consumer advocacy group, and opened its own clinic in New York City.

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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.