President of Catholics for Free Choice: Consider “developing life”

From a pro-choice essay entitled “Is There Life after Roe? How to Think about the Fetus,” in the winter 2004/5 issue of Conscience, Frances Kissling, (president of Catholics for Free Choice) told prochoicers:

“[It is preferable to be] avoiding a coarsening of humanity that can result from the taking of life. Pro-choice advocates may bristle at such a claim, [but they would do well] “to present abortion as a complex issue that involves loss and to be saddened by that loss at the same time as we affirm and support women’s decisions to end pregnancies.”

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“After thirty years of legal abortion and a debate that shows no signs of ending and has no clear winner is it not time to try and combine rights and morality to consider both women and developing human life?”