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By Ronald Dworkin. 273 pp. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. $23. ISBN 0-394-58941-6.

Ronald Dworkin is one of the country's leading constitutional scholars, and in Life's Dominion he presents his argument about how the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted when a state seeks to restrict abortion. Dworkin focuses on what he sees as the mismatch between public antiabortion rhetoric and the reality of personal opinion about abortion. In his view, people who describe the fetus as a person and equate abortion with murder cannot really mean what they say (even if they act as if they do in trying to intimidate physicians and their patients). Thus, he argues that the abortion controversy is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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