Exclusive: Storyboard Entertainment has secured the rights to the book To Offer Compassion: A History of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion which was co-authored by Doris Andrea Dirks and Patricia A. Relf who will serve as co-producers on the project. Hired on to adapt the feature project is Mr. Robot writer/producer Kor Adana.
The project will center around the true story of church administrator Arlene Carmen, who in 1967, started the Clergy Consultation Service (Ccs), an underground, illegal abortion counseling program that used a network of 1,500 ministers and rabbis from all over the country to help 500,000 women receive safe abortions.
The book will be released in paperback this summer. Dirks and Relf said they have “spent hours talking about the details of the clergy’s work” and “have been glad to share … resources and original interview tapes.”
“I live in Ohio, where the state legislature has passed a law...
The project will center around the true story of church administrator Arlene Carmen, who in 1967, started the Clergy Consultation Service (Ccs), an underground, illegal abortion counseling program that used a network of 1,500 ministers and rabbis from all over the country to help 500,000 women receive safe abortions.
The book will be released in paperback this summer. Dirks and Relf said they have “spent hours talking about the details of the clergy’s work” and “have been glad to share … resources and original interview tapes.”
“I live in Ohio, where the state legislature has passed a law...
- 3/5/2019
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
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