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Frances Kissling

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

How to think about abortion

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Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., announces he will vote to pass the health care reform bill after President Obama agreed to sign an executive order reaffirming the ban on the use of federal funds to provide abortions as the house prepares to vote on health care reform in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Sunday, March 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg) (AP)

Pass healthcare reform — then repeal Hyde!

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Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., arrives for a meeting on pending health care legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg) (Associated Press)

When Congress sells out women

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Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges faithful during the Angelus noon prayer celebrated from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009.

The pope launches a right-wing affirmative-action program

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Donors should be rewarded for their kidneys

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Pope Benedict XVI has his hand kissed by Cardinal Bernard Law during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday June 7, 2006.

What is the Vatican, exactly?

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Babies rest on a bed inside a maternity ward at a hospital in Manila November 14, 2008.

Contraception fights global warming

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New Catholic sex prayer — but where’s the sex?

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Editor in Chief and CEO, Sojourners, USA, Jim Wallis pauses before speaking during a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday Jan. 29, 2009.

Exploiting the healthcare debate to restrict abortion

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Why don't Catholic bishops care about healthcare?

Why don’t Catholic bishops care about healthcare?

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Nuns on the run from the truth

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Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza

Men behaving badly aren’t funny anymore

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This Feb. 4, 2009 file photo shows Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn. during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Seeking elusive common ground on abortion, prominent activists and clergy on both sides of the debate are throwing their support behind a bill aimed at preventing unintended pregnancies and supporting pregnant women. The so-called Ryan-DeLauro bill _ first introduced in 2006 is being reintroduced Thursday, July 23, 2009 by Reps. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, and Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn.

Sometimes abortion is the better choice

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Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL) speaks with members of the press in this file image from January 21, 1999

The feds should fund abortion

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How’s that “common ground” going?

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What’s wrong with the new pro-lifers

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Jimmy Carter: How religion subjugates women

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Is Regina Benjamin too fat to be surgeon general?

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Should women get money for donating eggs?

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Can we ever say a woman can’t choose?

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Alexia Kelley

How to talk about abortion

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Obama’s poor choice for faith leader

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Archbishop of Washington Donald Wuerl greets Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after the celebration of the Red Mass at St. Matthews Cathedral in Washington, DC, October 5, 2008. The Red Mass is celebrated at the start of the Supreme Court term.

Are six Catholics too many for the Supreme Court?

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The end of “pro-choice” America?

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