And here is some information on...
Catholics for a Free Choice
Website:
http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/indexengflash.htm
Email address:
cffc@catholicsforchoice.org
Physical Address:
Catholics for a Free Choice
1436 U Street NW, Suite 301
Washington, DC 20009-3997 USA
Office: +1 (202) 986-6093
Fax: +1 (202) 332-7995
Key Personnel:
Frances Kissling
These people have a very slick, professionally designed web site - the hallmark of a group with money to burn. I wonder where exactly they get their funding? Their web site is built to funnel the media to their op-ed pieces and soundbites. It's worth taking a look at the site if only to get an idea how
real Catholic sites could better target the news media and disseminate true Catholic teaching.
Here are some quotes from an interview with Ms. Kissling, the head heretic at CfFC. It may be found on their web site
here
Q: Let's start at the very beginning. How did Catholics for a Free Choice begin? What was the impetus for this kind of organization?
Kissling: Three New York women -- Joan Harriman, Patricia Fogarty McQuillan, and Meta Mulcahy, who had been colleagues in the National Organization for Women -- chartered CFFC in 1973, the year of the US Supreme Court's Roe decision.
At the time, little if any active dissent movement existed in the church. The impression was widespread that Catholics followed the bishops unquestioningly. Catholics were still generally perceived as working class, from large families, and as not practicing contraception. This impression was strengthened when the bishops suddenly emerged as the principal opposition to legal abortion in the wake of Roe.
These three women--CFFC's founders--recognized the importance of organized opposition to the hierarchy's campaign. They were motivated by the simple conviction that the bishops did not represent the Catholic people on reproductive rights issues, including abortion. They knew that Catholic women had abortions and that Catholic women and men supported legal access to abortion. Their task was to get that message out to the public.
Just to get your blood boiling a bit, here's a news story from July 2000:
Pro-Abortion "Catholic" Dares Bishops To Excommunicate Her
NEW YORK (CWNews.com/LSN.ca) - Frances Kissling, head of the pro-abortion group Catholics for a Free Choice, has written a column daring bishops or the Pope to excommunicate her.
In her article she says that "since no bishop or pope--and I am reasonably sure that these authorities know who I am and what I believe--has chosen either to pronounce me excommunicated or declare that I have automatically excommunicated myself, I am confident that I remain in good standing with the Church."
Pretending to answer those who argue that she has excommunicated herself, Kissling claims erroneously that only those who procure abortions directly are excommunicated automatically. She eggs on the debate by claiming that her advocacy of abortion does not qualify her for excommunication, but nor does "directing an abortion clinic, as I did some 20 years ago." She mentions also that she slips into "churches around the world, receiving Communion, and saying, Yes, I am Catholic."
Despite her claim that bishops and the Pope probably know who she is, it is not likely that they share her view of her own importance. Furthermore, many Catholics do not consider her or her anti-Catholic group to be Catholic in the first place.