Twitterscript with Frances Kissling
by Shubha Bala, associate producer
We interviewed Frances Kissling on December 20, 2010. A longtime force in the abortion debate, Kissling is searching for new ways to talk to each other, not past each other, about our deepest disagreements.
We live-tweeted gems from the 90-minute conversation, which we’re reposting here in case you don’t use Twitter, or just missed it. Make sure to follow us next time. at @BeingTweets.
- Krista is with @FrancesKissling -a longtime force in the abortion debate she searches for new ways to talk about our deepest disagreements. 2:00 PM Dec 20th
- “When you have a mother with two bad marriages, the life of a nun looks pretty good” - @FrancesKissling 2:07 PM Dec 20th
- “The Catholic church had almost no understanding of what women’s lives were like.” - Catholic @FrancesKissling
- “You made your bed, you lie in it is a flawed way of moral decision making - you have to look at the situation before you.” @FrancesKissling
- “‘Once a Catholic always a Catholic’ thing is relatively true. I was always influenced by my Catholic ed.” Prochoice leader @FrancesKissling
- “I discovered that the way that I look at Catholicism, expansively, is the way many nuns and priests look at Catholicism.” @FrancesKissling
- “Women’s freedoms and the rights of the fetus - for most people both of those values exist.” @FrancesKissling
- “The revulsion and stigmatization of people that perform abortions spills over to the consciousness of women who have them” @FrancesKissling
- “In the 1970s pro-life meant you’re a redneck anti-abortion conservative. That’s not what it means anymore.” @FrancesKissling
- We’ve never addressed ‘What would legal abortion look like in a caring and loving society?’ @FrancesKissling on pro-choice movement
- “The pressure of coming to an agreement works against really understanding each other. And we don’t understand each other.” @FrancesKissling
- The hallmark of civil debate is when you can acknowledge that which is good in the position of the person you disagree with.-Sidney Callahan
- “Dialogue requires an enormous amount of discipline. You have to put up with things you don’t like.” @FrancesKissling
- “I don’t understand how you can work on an issue for 35 years as complicated as this and never change your mind.” #FrancesKissling
- “Part of vulnerability is some modicum of helplessness.” @FrancesKissling
- “Women and fetuses are not adversaries.” - #Frances Kissling
- “It’s sort of like communion…part of someone else’s body is going to be in me for the rest of my life.”@FrancesKissling on organ donation
- “People at the center are not going to be the big change makers. You’ve got to put yourself at the margins.” @FrancesKissling
- “I love a good fight and I love to win but what I have learned…you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.” @FrancesKissling
