The Procedure

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 39.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In 1967, a very unlikely group of individuals gathered to quietly break the law and help facilitate abortions. They established a phone number. When you called it, a recording of a woman's voice would tell you what to do next. Who was behind this number? The Clergy Consultation Service, an underground network of ministers and rabbis who wanted to help people access safe abortions in a time before it was legal. We first aired our conversations with some of them in 2017. And after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this year, we decided to call some of them back. Take our survey: vox.com/podsurvey Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Pushkin Industries, I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and heavyweight is back.
0:06.3	The new season is bigger than ever.
0:08.7	Bigger hopes?
0:09.7	I keep waiting for this moment when he says, Mom, I get it.
0:14.6	I'm sorry.
0:15.9	Bigger dreams.
0:17.1	Tom Hanks wants to meet with you.
0:19.3	This is a real chance.
0:21.2	And bigger heartbreaks.
0:22.7	I thought it would be my movie moment.
0:27.8	And maybe he would even whisper in my ear.
0:29.8	I've always been in love with you.
0:31.8	Check out new episodes of heavyweight on Apple Podcasts.
0:39.8	Support for Criminal comes from Apple Podcasts. Support for Criminal comes from Apple Podcasts.
0:43.1	Sometimes you get an urge to look back at your past and the decisions you regret or the
0:47.9	connections you lost.
0:49.5	And you start to wonder, what if things have gone differently?
0:53.6	Heavyweight is a podcast that looks into that question
0:56.1	and tries to make things right.
0:58.2	Listening to a single episode, you can laugh, cry,
1:00.6	reflect on crossroads in your own life,
1:02.6	or even find the closure you might be searching for.
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