Frances Kissling breaks her silence

Finally!  I was wondering when she was going to weigh in . . .

Why I won't stay silent anymore

By upholding the ban on "partial-birth" abortion, the Supreme Court has injected rigid Catholic teaching into law. That's a crime against the Constitution and women.

By Frances Kissling

. . . Kennedy's opinion, which affirms "the government's right to use its voice and its regulatory authority to show its profound respect for the life within the woman" as it cavalierly dismisses the need a few specific women might have for this procedure, could easily have been written by the late Pope John Paul II or the current Benedict XVI. Women are invisible in this decision as they are invisible in the writings of recent -- and not so recent -- popes. Now it's impossible for me to remain silent. . . .

On the "invisibility" question, perhaps Ms. Kissling needs to read the works of, say, Professors Stabile and Schiltz!