Protect and Defend Author:Richard North Patterson In Washington, the newly elected young President, Karry Kilcannon, faces his first test: the sudden death of the Chief Justice of the United States has created a vacancy at the heart of a sharply divided Supreme Court. In San Francisco, an unknown fifteen-year-old girl, Mary Ann Tierney, wants to sue for permission to have a late-term abortion ... more »over the opposition of her pro-live parents.« less