Anti-Choice & Amicus Curiae Briefs

Although the United States Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade made legal access to abortion the law of the land as of 1973, the war of words that preceded the decision has dogged it in a variety of ways since that time. Because the abortion decision is weighted with moral and cultural as well as psychological predicates, because dramatically antagonistic perspectives of abortion as such and the decision for abortion inform debate on the issue, and because the abortion deb

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t human life while investing women and doctors with the constitutionally protected right to exterminate it" (198). However, it was in this gap that the rhetoric of abortion advocacy raged during the period that Roe v. Wade was under consideration by the Court--and into this gap that legislative, judicial, and social advocacy for and against abortion rights plunged after 1973. It is because Court opinion appears to be a rhetorical strategy informed by the rhetorical strategies of issue advocates that Hagan's analysis has foundational relevance for the present study. The rhetoric of antiabortion advocates has intrigued a number of analysts. Solomon's examination of what she calls "the continuity motif" among so-called right-to-life (RTL) partisans looks at the Weltanschaunng informing the intragroup mobilization strategy of Right to Life, as of 1980 the most famous antiabortion advocacy group in the US. The moral-ethical world view articulated in RTL literature is directed at sympathetic readers, whether formal members or not, the group's publicly stated objective that of "activating existing support rather than changing minds" (Solomon 52). Solomon cites the rhetorical dilemma posed to RTL by Roe v. Wade decision. Before 1973, the
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