# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frances-kissling
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:45:39.064Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frances-kissling"
name: "Frances Kissling"
slug: "frances-kissling"
description: "Frances Kissling is an activist in the fields of religion, reproduction, and women's rights. She is the president of the Center for Health, Ethics and Social Policy. She was president of Catholics for Choice from 1982 until 2007, when she turned over the reins to Jon O'Brien. She is now a visiting scholar at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas at UNAM, Mexico City. She regularly contributes pieces to The Nation and The Huffington Post. She contributed the piece \"Dancing Against the Vatican\" to the 2003 anthology Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium, edited by Robin Morgan."
tagline: "American activist"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
birthDate: "1943"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump