Roe v. Wade:The rhetoric of fetal life

1 September 1976

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Central States Speech Journal

Vol. 27 (3) , 192-199
https://doi.org/10.1080/10510977609367892

Abstract

Court decisions themselves, and not just arguments before courts, are rhetorical works. The Supreme Court majority opinion in the publicized 1973 abortion case Roe v. Wade demonstrated this rhetorical nature of decisions both in its choice of arguments and evidence and in its effort to organize symbolically the world of the medical and legal considerations surrounding abortion.

Keywords

ROE V. WADE

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

An Introduction to Legal Reasoning
The University of Chicago Law Review, 1948