Frances Kissling — What Is Good in the Position of the Other
On Being with Krista Tippett
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What a Year? And You Were Just There?
At a young age, you became very passionate about this issue of abortion. So weu know, where? Where did that originate? I think that for me, the starting point was, as a younger woman, was sexuality in the sense that i had a mother who had a sexual life that was condemned by the church. And so i really had almost no exposure to abortion whatever. But in my early years and her twenties, after i left the convent and left catholic school and moved to greenwich village and went to the new school for social research and became active against the war enviat nam y thought was that yone really didn't think god intended me to never have sex.
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