I Was Charged With Aiding and Abetting a Criminal Abortion

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Reverend hayr i was charged with aiding and abetting a criminal abortion. He fought the indictment for years, all the way up to the state supreme court,. The case was eventually dismissed. In some places, there were roman catholic priests or nuns in the group. Many of the branches are helping hundreds and hundreds of people per week. It's a profound amount of people that are coming to them for help.

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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