UU Clergy & Our History Helping Patients Access Safe Abortions
Tue, May 09
|Webinar
Join the Unitarian Universalist Association to learn about the Clergy Consultation Service of the 1960s, and similar work happening in the wake of Dobbs.
Time & Location
May 09, 2023, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM EDT
Webinar
About the Event
"Moral Obligations Transcending Legal Codes": The Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM ET (Please note the Time Zone!)
Before the landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade made abortion legal across the United States, clergy from a wide variety of religious traditions developed a coordinated, skilled, responsive underground network that supported people experiencing "problem pregnancies" to access abortion care from trustworthy doctors and medical professionals. This network of more than 1400 clergy and hundreds of providers -- which included many Unitarian Universalists -- helped hundreds of thousands of people access safe abortions before the Roe decision. Join us for this conversation with historians and organizers to understand the social and political context of the Clergy Consultation Service of the 1960s (particularly examining the prominent role of UUs) of the 1960s while learning about similar work that is already happening in the wake…