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Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson
Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson






Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson

The Supreme Court nominee decided not to have an abortion years ago, and in consequence, has a daughter who has been raised by her half-sister as her niece. President Kilcannon’s fianceé had an abortion years earlier. It seems that everybody involved in this case even remotely has some sort of issue relating to abortion that they want to be kept quiet. Wade decision permitting abortions turned on the issue of privacy. This book sharply highlights why the original Roe vs. The girl’s lawyer was formerly a clerk for Kilcannon’s top pick for Chief Justice. Much of the book, though, is taken up with a court case on abortion involving a fifteen-year-old girl whose parents don’t believe in abortion but whose baby has been diagnosed with a condition that is not only life-threatening for the child, but also dangerous to the mother’s ability to bear future children. Unexpectedly, Kilcannon is confronted with the welcome but difficult prospect of selecting a new Chief Justice for the Supreme Court. Protect and Defend opens with his inauguration, which is made more exciting when the stodgy old Chief Justice suffers a heart attack shortly after administering the oath of office. In the first book of the series, Kilcannon, then a senator, won a hard-fought election and became President.

Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson

All have dangerous secrets in their past, secrets that would not only threaten careers, but bring death and tragedy to innocent lives.Protect and Defend is part of a series featuring Kerry Kilcannon. As Mary Ann takes on her own parents and the constitutional law of the United States in a desperate bid to protect her future right to bear children, the ramifications of the Tierney case bring a threat to the new President, Kerry Kilcannon, to his nominee for Chief Justice, Caroline Masters, and to his main rival for the Presidency, Senator Chad Palmer. Within days her name will be known to millions across America, her court case a television must-watch for everyone from the President downwards. Immobile, the girl gazed at the clinic as though it were a thousand miles away. But despite the flowered dress she wore, her belly had begun to show. Within days her name will be known to millions across America, her court case a television She was a girl, really, with short red hair and a waif-like slimness.

Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson

She was a girl, really, with short red hair and a waif-like slimness.








Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson