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By Ronald Dworkin.(*) New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Pp. 273. $23.00.

I. AN OVERVIEW

Life's Dominion defends a novel claim: that disputes over the morality of abortion, assisted suicide, and euthanasia are fundamentally religious disagreements. They are religious, Ronald Dworkin contends, because most people believe that the morality of these actions depends on whether they adequately respect life's "sacred" or inherent value, and "[c]onvictions that endorse the objective importance of human life speak to the same issues--about the place of an individual human life ...

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