To Offer Compassion
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To Offer Compassion: A History of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion is a 2017 nonfiction book by Canadian author and activist D. A. Dirks and American author Patricia A. Relf.[1][2] The book uses interviews and archival sources to tell the story of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion (CCS), a network of ministers and rabbis in 38 states that referred as many as 450,000 women for safe abortions from its founding, in 1967, to 1973, when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion nationwide.
The authors' stated intention was to record the recollections of participants as they aged, in the presumed absence of written records for the group. As the project progressed, however, they found several archives of records kept by the larger chapters, and were given access to closed archives from Judson Memorial Church, where the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion (CCS) was based.[3] The book provides profiles of several of the estimated 3,000 counselors, including Howard Moody, spokesperson for the New York chapter and national group; Arlene Carmen, Judson Memorial Church administrator and coordinator of the National Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion; E. Spencer Parsons, chair of the Chicago Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion; Huw Anwyl and Elizabeth Kanitz Canfield, coordinators of the Los Angeles chapter; and others.
Reception[edit]
- A starred review in Publishers Weekly said, "Dirks and Relf provide critically important social history that too many in today’s abortion wars have never known or chosen to forget."[4]
- “Faith Matters” columnist Bill Tammeus said, "This books focuses not so much on the bitter political battles over abortion, though it certainly deals with that, but, more, on the need for pastoral care of women and whole families in crisis."[5]
- Bonnie Jean Feldkamp said, "Prior to Roe v. Wade, we know women took horrid measures to obtain abortions. Moody and other clergy organized across the country to counsel women and refer them to doctors who would safely perform abortions."[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ "About the Authors". To Offer Compassion. 2017-01-30. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
- ↑ Williams, Daniel K. (2018). "To Offer Compassion: A History of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion. By Doris Andrea Dirks and Patricia A. Relf. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. xii + 226 pp. $26.95 cloth". Church History. 87 (1): 306–309. doi:10.1017/S0009640718000707. ISSN 0009-6407.
- ↑ Dirks, D. A., Relf, Patricia A. (2017). To Offer Compassion: A History of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. x–xii. ISBN 978-0299311308. Search this book on
- ↑ "Nonfiction Book Review: To Offer Compassion: A History of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion by Doris Andrea Dirks and Patricia Relf. Univ. of Wisconsin, $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-299-31130-8". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
- ↑ "Here's more for your summer reading list: 7-7/8-18". Bill's Faith Matters blog. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
- ↑ "Abortion and the Catholic Currency of Shame, by Bonnie Jean Feldkamp". www.creators.com. 2021-07-02. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
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