OPEN STACKS | #15 Faith in Choice: Dr. Willie Parker & D.A. Dirks
August 20th, 2017
This week on Open Stacks, we hear from members of the faith community who advocate for reproductive justice. Dr. Willie Parker, author of Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice talks about his journey to become an abortion provider in the Deep South. D.A. Dirks discusses their book To Offer Compassion, which tells the story of the Clergy Consultation Service, a group of clergymen who assisted women to find safe abortions before Roe v. Wade.
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In Life's Work, an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider (one of the few doctors to provide such services to women in Mississippi and Alabama) pulls from his personal and professional journeys as well as the scientific training he received as a doctor to...
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In 1967, when abortion was either illegal or highly restricted in every U.S. state, a group of ministers and rabbis formed to counsel women with unwanted pregnancies--including referral to licensed physicians willing to perform the procedure. By 1973, when the Roe v. Wade court decision made...