Achieving Civil and Constructive Discourse: Applying Fish’s Anti-Rhetorical and Rhetorical Perspectives on the American Abortion Debate

Last month’s passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has sparked a furious contest on Capitol Hill over the nomination of Federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. For many Americans, at the center of this controversy is the fate of the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, which with an additional…