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Abortion and Divorce in Western Law: American Failures, European Challenges. By Mary Ann Glendon. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp. 197. $25.00. ISBN: 0-674-00160-5. Paper: $10.95. ISBN: 0-674-00161-3.

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W. Cole Durham Jr.
W. Cole Durham Jr.*
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J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , 1988 , pp. 509 - 523
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1. 109 S. Ct. 3040 (1989).

2. See id. at 3054-55 (plurality opinion). Justice O'Connor concurs with the plurality on this point, adding that the viability-testing provision under scrutiny makes sense only if the examinations and tests “would not be imprudent or careless to perform in the particular medical situation before the physician.” Id. at 3060. Justice Scalia concurred in the result, though he would have preferred to accentuate the tension between the viability-testing provision and Roe v. Wade in order to precipitate an overruling of that case.

3. 410 U.S. 113 (1973).

4. Judgment of Feb. 25, 1975, 39 BV erfGE 1. English translations: The Abortion Decision of February 25, 1975, of the Federal Constitutional Court, Federal Republic of Germany (Jann, Edmund C. trans. 1975)Google Scholar; Jonas, & Gorby, (trans.), West German Abortion Decision: A Contrast to Roe v. Wade, 9 John Marshall Journal of Practice and Procedure 605 (1976)Google ScholarPubMed.

5. See, e.g., White, J., Heracles' Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of Law (1985)Google Scholar; White, , Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Law: The Arts of Cultural and Communal Life, 52 U. Chi. L. Rev. 684 (1985)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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10. See, e.g., Kennedy, Ancient to Modern Rhetoric, supra note 7; B. Vickers, supra note 7, at 439-457.

11. One thinks in this regard of much of Hellenistic and Roman culture, the Italian Renaissance, and 17th and 18th Century England. Rhetorical concerns pervaded the whole of Latin literature. See B. Vickers, supra note 7, at 12; Curtius, E., European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (Trask, W. trans. 1953)Google Scholar.

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26. Cohen, supra note 15, at 1242-45.

27. One thinks in this regard of such figures as Isocrates, Cicero, and Quintilian, each of whom was concerned with rhetoric as a tool of cultivating virtue and training men who would work for the common good. See, e.g., B. Vickers, supra note 7, at 6-12.

28. See supra text accompanying notes 15-18.

29. See supra authorities cited at note 9.

30. Fineman, supra note 19, at 1436.

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32. Fineman, supra note 19, at 1436.

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34. See id. at 481.

35. Id. at 482.

36. Id. at 488.

37. Bartlett, supra note 20, at 764.