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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: FRANCES KISSLINGadmin2024-04-16T15:50:44-04:00

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). 

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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
    • Op-Ed: Time For A New Approach To Abortion Rights, 2011
    • Frances Kissling — Listening Beyond Life and Choice, 2011
  • 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
  • Frances Kissling in the Emmy winning film “From Danger to Dignity: The Fight for Safe Abortion, by Dorothy Fadiman
  • On C-SPAN
  • Wikipedia

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