Frances Kissling (born 15 June 1943) is an activist in the fields of religion, reproduction, and women's rights.
She is now a visiting scholar at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas [es] at UNAM, Mexico City.
[2] Five years later, after having another daughter, her mother divorced and later married a man named Charles Kissling, with whom two more children were conceived.
[3] In 1978 she joined the board of Catholics for a Free Choice, and in 1982 she took over as president – a position she held for 25 years until her retirement in 2007.
[2] She supports public funding for contraception and abortion, and is the co-author of Rosie: The Investigation of a Wrongful Death, with Ellen Frankfort.