How Many Women Would You Say You Oversaw That Flight?

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Women at stevens would go to saint louis, get the abortion fairly quickly and then have a couple of hours to see if she was not going to hemorhage. Then they would be on the five o'clock american airlines flight back to saint loui. We had trained the dobbs ferry staff and doctors. And subsequently, we sent our nurse. American airlines allowed us to teach the flight attendants on that five o’clock flight back from laguardia to saints louis that they mayh have a woman there who had had an abortion and might be hemorrhaging. She taught them what to do. So how many women would you say you supervisor,

In 1967, a very unlikely group of individuals gathered to help women quietly break the law and obtain an abortion. The first step was to call a phone number. A recording of a woman's voice would tell you what to do next.

Who was behind this number? The Clergy Consultation Service, an underground network of ministers and rabbis who wanted to help women access safe abortions. Today, they call themselves the Religious Consultation for Reproductive Choice.

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