- Katherine Hancock Ragsdale
The Reverend Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale is an Episcopal
Priest based inMassachusetts . She has been the interim director ofPolitical Research Associates since May 2005 [ [http://www.publiceye.org/aboutpra/press_releases/2005-5-18.html PublicEye.org] ] .She is a noted American Progressive, and is priest at St. David's Episcopal Church in Pepperell [ [http://www.saintdavidschurch.org/ St. David Church] ] , part of the
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts . Ragsdale has served for 17 years on the national board of theReligious Coalition for Reproductive Choice . She is also on the board ofNARAL Pro-Choice America ,The White House Project , the Progressive Religious Partnership, as well as the bi-national advisory board of The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence. She presented to theUnited States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America andthe Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice in 2004. [ [http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=1214&wit_id=3494 Senate.gov] ]Ragsdale is the editor of "Boundary Wars: Intimacy and Distance in Healing Relationships" [ [http://www.amazon.ca/dp/toc/0829811184 Amazon.com] ] , and the author of numerous articles, including "The Role of Religious Institutions in Responding to the Domestic Violence Crisis" in Albany Law Review, and "Hannah", a short story.
External links
* [http://www.rcrc.org/pdf/Hannah.pdf Hannah] , a short story.
* [http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=1214&wit_id=3494 Senate testimony] , 2004
* [http://www.syrf.org/docs/sermon_ragsdale.pdf Sermon] to theNational Abortion Federation , 1997
* [http://pewforum.org/events/index.php?EventID=131 The Supreme Court Returns to the Abortion Debate] , comments at a Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life forum in 2006
* [http://www.acslaw.org/node/3675 ACS Law]References
ee also
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Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
*Episcopal
*National Abortion Rights Action League
*Christianity and abortion
* ReverendCarlton W. Veazey
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