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By Jean Reith Schroedel. 223 pp. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2000. $29.95. ISBN 0-8014-3707-5.

It is said that politics is perception, and Jean Reith Schroedel, a professor in the Department of Politics and Policy at Claremont Graduate University, has set out to explore the war of perception in the ongoing struggle over abortion and women's rights. Her provocative and well-researched book tests the rhetoric of the prolife movement, which focuses on the protection of the most vulnerable among us, and the rhetoric of the prochoice movement, which focuses on the protection of women's equality and autonomy. By examining the degree to which antiabortion forces also support other measures to enhance the well-being of fetuses . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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