THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Frances Kissling
“I Make People Think.”
Author. Speaker. Educator. Social marketer focusing on values and ethics. Founding president of the National Abortion Federation. Past president of Catholics for a Free Choice. Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. President, The Center for Health, Ethics and Social Policy.
Interviewed by Mary Jean Collins, VFA Historian, June 2020
Photo 1. Rosie: The Investigation of a Wrongful Death, Book by Ellen Frankfort and Frances Kissling, 1979. Photo 2. Speaking on behalf of Catholics for a Free Choice, 1982. Photo 3. Frances Kissling, 1987. Photo 4. Frances speaking at an event sponsored by Penn Dems (Photo by Justin Cohen).
More About Frances:
- Select writings by Frances Kissling on Salon.com
- Select videos including Frances Kissling – Women’s Learning Partnership
- Background Briefing with Ian Masters, The Powerful Special Interests Behind Kavanaugh, 2019
- Icons and Activists, 50 Years of People Making a Change honors Frances Kissling
- Values Added: Moral Responsibility in Sexuality | Frances Kissling & William Saletan 2018
- Choice – the Documentary
- Reproductive Justice Hearing: Religion, Conscience Objections, & Hospital Mergers Panel, 2015
- The On Being Project abortion debate 2012
- Frances Kissling on NPR
- Interview with Krista Tippett, On Being, 2011
- Fifteen Years After: Revisiting the International Conference on Population and Development, 2009
- An Emotional Approach to Abortion Rights by Village Voice, 2004
- Population and Reproductive Health Oral History Project Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Northampton, MA Frances Kissling Interviewed by Rebecca Sharpless September 13–14, 2002
- On C-SPAN
- Wikipedia