Frances KisslingU.S. Global Fund for Women Founder and Board member. An ex-nun, an avid Catholic and critic of the church’s policies, she has been called the “philosopher of the pro-choice movement” by her friends and an “abortion queen” by her critics. Frances was dubbed the “philosopher of the pro-choice movement” by Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman, and is widely considered one of the more thoughtful proponents of international reproductive health rights. She recently stepped down as president of Catholics for a Free Choice to pursue more deeply the connections among rights, morality, and responsibility as they apply to the US abortion debate. Frances was a 2007/8 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University, where she was working on a book that addresses some of the more intractable issues in abortion—including fetal status, women’s moral agency, and parents’ and men’s roles—using a feminist ethical lens. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. Honored by the Global Fund for Women |
