Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion

[FindersKeepers]

An underground railroad to London run by Christian Clergy used to help women get abortions before Roe became law.

Known as the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, this interfaith group of Protestant ministers, Jewish rabbis, and dissenting Catholic nuns and priests spanning more than 30 US states helped tens of thousands of abortion-seekers to safely move within and across national borders to obtain reliable reproductive health care. Many of these women traveled to London, dubbed “the abortion capital of the world”, where women could privately obtain abortions safely, legally, and with minimal ‘red tape’.

The 1950s and 1960s saw mainline Protestant and Jewish leaders become increasingly alarmed by the public-health catastrophe caused by stringent abortion restrictions. In January 1961, The Christian Century magazine editorialised against the “archaic state and church laws” that “drive nearly a million American mothers each year to abortion mills where approximately 5,000 of them die at the hands of bungling quacks and filthy midwives.”

I wonder if churches will be stepping up again to help American women?

[donttread]

An underground railroad to London run by Christian Clergy used to help women get abortions before Roe became law.





I wonder if churches will be stepping up again to help American women?

I think crossing a state line or two is as bad as it'll get and people do that for lots of things. I believe in legal early stage abortion but like voting if it requires some effort on the person's part that's fine with me.
The way to address this is for women to make their wishes known and their votes felt in their home states. Hopefully total abortion bans and late term abortion extremes can be eliminated in this way

[RMNIXON]

I think crossing a state line or two is as bad as it'll get and people do that for lots of things. I believe in legal early stage abortion but like voting if it requires some effort on the person's part that's fine with me.
The way to address this is for women to make their wishes known and their votes felt in their home states. Hopefully total abortion bans and late term abortion extremes can be eliminated in this way

Your pregnant for how many months and a bus ride away from freedom to terminate the unborn? Wow what an unreasonable burden lets have PBS documentaries..................



How about Planned Parenthood abortion Mills pay for the ride and a discount perhaps as this is how they make major profits?

[LWW]

I wonder if churches will be stepping up again to help American women?

When did they ever stop?

Please, just once, be specific and show your work.

[FindersKeepers]

I think crossing a state line or two is as bad as it'll get and people do that for lots of things. I believe in legal early stage abortion but like voting if it requires some effort on the person's part that's fine with me.
The way to address this is for women to make their wishes known and their votes felt in their home states. Hopefully total abortion bans and late term abortion extremes can be eliminated in this way

Agreed. There's no need for wealthy women to tromp off to London when nearly half of the US still offers abortions.

You make a good point about people crossing state lines for other things. Here in Kansas, the kids are always planning road trips to Colorado, and I strongly suspect it's because marijuana is legal there. But, it could be the mountains.

Voting, of course, is the best way in our nation to make one's voices known.

[FindersKeepers]

When did they ever stop?

Please, just once, be specific and show your work.

I'm not sure I know what you mean by "show my work."

The OP story is an interesting one, and I did dig deeper and found teh Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion was actually quite well known. There are many historical accounts recorded.

What I'm asking now is whether churches will play that same role, or rather, which churches. Or, will it be unnecessary due to the ease of getting a medical abortion or traveling in a car?

[LWW]

Agreed. There's no need for wealthy women to tromp off to London when nearly half of the US still offers abortions.

You make a good point about people crossing state lines for other things. Here in Kansas, the kids are always planning road trips to Colorado, and I strongly suspect it's because marijuana is legal there. But, it could be the mountains.

Voting, of course, is the best way in our nation to make one's voices known.

It isn't the mountains.

1 - Ohioans flee to Michigan to buy marijuana legally ... why can't I demand that Ohio follow Michigan law?

2 - Ohioans used to flee to Indiana for legal gambling.

3 - Ohioans flee to Kentucky for lower priced gas, beer, wine, liquor and gasoline ... why can't I demand that Ohio follow Kentucky law?

[LWW]

I'm not sure I know what you mean by "show my work."

Dear God in Heaven ... leftists will spend more time and effort evading a question than answering it.

Let me indulge your cavil posturing ... you made a claim, back it up with verifiable truth and fact.

[countryboy]

An underground railroad to London run by Christian Clergy used to help women get abortions before Roe became law.





I wonder if churches will be stepping up again to help American women?

Yes, I'm sure liberal churches will be stepping up to help women kill their babies. I bet that gives you the warm fuzzies. Real churches will continue to help women with their babies.

[countryboy]

Dear God in Heaven ... leftists will spend more time and effort evading a question than answering it.

Let me indulge your cavil posturing ... you made a claim, back it up with verifiable truth and fact.

Ha! Good one!