Abstract

Bioethics provides many instances. In Rights Talk and in her earlier Abortion and Divorce in Western Law, Glendon char s the way the American rights dialect has helped turn the conflict over abortion into a cankerous and uncompromisable bitterness in American politics. Less dramatically (as I once argued in an a ticle called "Rights Discourse and Neonatal Euthanasia"), the debate over the treatment of defective newborns has been distorted by the anxiety of all sides to frame their case in terms of rights. And the Cruzan case exemplifies the way an attempt to constitutionalize an issue can divert a use-

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