Prior to Roe, clergy and religious communities as part of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion (CCS) joined in faithful — and often risky — collaboration to help individuals access safe and affordable abortion services. With 19 Christian clergy and two rabbi, the CCS announced their launch on the front page of The New York Times.

The CCS was directly responsible for opening the nation’s first abortion clinic in New York City in 1970 and supported an estimated 500,000 people in accessing abortion from trustworthy providers across the nation before 1973.

In the wake of Dobbs and the fall of Roe, our values compel us again to take up the work of supporting abortion seekers.