I Was Charged With Aiding and Abetting a Criminal Abortion

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In 19 69, when he helped an ohio woman visit a doctor in massachusetts for an abortion. My attorney had said that you aren't breaking the law. But it didn't work out that way for me. On a drawsback to o the woman had a lot of cramping. She ended up telling the police the whole story, including the names of both the doctor and reverend hare.

In 1967, a very unlikely group of individuals gathered to quietly break the law and help facilitate abortions. They established a phone number. When you called it, 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 people access safe abortions in a time before it was legal. We first aired our conversations with some of them in 2017. And after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this year, we decided to call some of them back.

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