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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.

(A)theologies, Sexuality/GenderFebruary 4, 2009

Crossing the Line: Fetal Cemeteries

By Frances Kissling

College Democrats deface crosses intended for anti-abortion protest and get nailed. Not nice to vandalize someone else’s property, but in political activism, kind of de rigueur.

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