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The Clergy Consultation Service
By 19 72, the clergy consultation service was operating in more than 600 locations across the country. The next year, when rove wade granted women the constitutional right to have an abortion, some clergy shifted their focus to making sure women had access to contraception. Do we have any numbers about how many women were served? In some ways it's impossible to know for sure exactly how many women obtained an abortion through the c c s. I would say conservatively, they helped upward of a quarter of a million women.
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