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- ↑ "About the Authors: D. A. Dirks". To Offer Compassion. Retrieved February 15, 2022.
- ↑ Dirks, Doris A.; Relf, Patricia A. (2017). To Offer Compassion: A History of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-31130-8.