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      Embryo Men — Decades of Conspiracy, Christian Nationalism, and Fear Led Us to The End of Roe v. Wade
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      Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?
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      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
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      Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
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      As Problems for Pregnant People Increase, Catholic Bishops Claim They’re Heroes For Ending Abortion Rights
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    • Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity
      Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity
    • Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
    • As Problems for Pregnant People Increase, Catholic Bishops Claim They’re Heroes For Ending Abortion Rights
      As Problems for Pregnant People Increase, Catholic Bishops Claim They’re Heroes For Ending Abortion Rights
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    • Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
    • Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
      Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
    • Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
      Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
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      With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
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      Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet
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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.

Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderNovember 9, 2009

Are US Bishops Responsible for Anti-Abortion Amendment in Health Care Reform?

By Frances Kissling

As so many pundits ask whether it was the 11th-hour activism of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops that enabled the anti-choice provision to be inserted into the health care bill, our analyst explores a different possibility: Democratic strategy. 

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(A)theologies, Politics/LawNovember 3, 2009

A Dominican Nun Keeps Peace in War Against Women

By Frances Kissling

Before she felt her presence compromised the peacekeeping Sr Donna Quinn was escorting women past protesters at a women’s health clinic.  

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(A)theologies, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderOctober 30, 2009

Catholic Bishops to Use Mass to Lobby Against Health Care?

By Frances Kissling

Both pro-choice and pro-life supporters of health care reform must speak out against this immoral use of religious services.

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(A)theologies, Culture, Sexuality/GenderOctober 6, 2009

Vatican Sexual Abuse and the High Priests of Hollywood?

By Frances Kissling

As a defensive Vatican attempts to reclassify the pedophiles it has never ceased protecting, the centrist former editor of America magazine makes a flawed Polanski analogy. 

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(A)theologies, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderAugust 28, 2009

Senator Ted Kennedy: A Catholic We Could Canonize

By Frances Kissling

Though he was never one to wear his religion on his sleeve, Sen. Kennedy’s liberal record of working for social justice falls squarely within the Catholic tradition.

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(A)theologies, Culture, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJuly 16, 2009

President Carter on Religion: Stop Harming Women and Girls

By Frances Kissling

In a recent Op-Ed, Elders member Jimmy Carter noted that religion is used to excuse slavery, forced prostitution, genital mutilation, and more.

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(A)theologies, Culture, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJune 22, 2009

Grasping At Straws: The Problem with Common Ground on Abortion

By Frances Kissling

What could possibly be wrong with finding “common ground” on abortion, as a recent Cleveland Plain Dealer op-ed suggested? A closer look at the “commongroundniks” leaves a lot to be desired for those who don’t compromise on respect and support for women.

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Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJune 19, 2009

Muslim Women “Warriors”

By Frances Kissling

The recently launched Musawah Movement reckons with the Qur’an and Sharia to ensure that women aren’t subject to hostile and unequal treatment by their communities or families.

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(A)theologies, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJune 18, 2009

A New Theopolitical Order: But What About The Women?

By Frances Kissling

Even as they invite progressive religious groups to the table the leaders of the Democratic party shun religious feminism.

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(A)theologies, Culture, Sexuality/GenderJune 17, 2009

The Best and the Brightest of the Catholic Bad Girls

By Frances Kissling

We picketed bishops and Popes, stole their dresses, stood up at the consecration of the Eucharist and said the words out loud. We are the bad girls of Catholic feminism, and we have stood up, over and over again, for women’s freedom.

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