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Frances Kissling

Frances Kissling is a visiting scholar at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and former president of Catholics for a Free Choice.

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Religious Leaders Urge Obama to Allow Abortion Funding in Foreign Aid

Religiously-based efforts to prevent girls from getting an education, like the kidnapping of Nigerian school girls by Boko Haram, have resulted in murder and attempted murder (the Malala case), as…
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Family Planning is Vatican’s Blind Spot on Environment

A recent study showed that the carbon legacy of an extra child is almost 20 times more important than things like driving an efficient car or recycling.
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Catholic Health System Releases New Rules for Contraception

In a follow up to allegations that a Catholic hospital in Bartlesville, Oklahoma had told doctors they could no longer prescribe contraceptives for use as birth control, new rules have been issued…
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