... with intentionally killing a baby in its mother's womb. [8] South Carolina now recognizes viable fetuses as possible subjects to child abuse and sentenced a Malissa Crawley to five years after she bore a baby with cocaine-tainted blood in 1991. [4] South Carolina also found Cornelia Whitner guilty ... of substance abuse during pregnancy and sentenced her to eight years in prison. [4] At the time Roe v. Wade was decided, Justice Blackmun held that the ... not take away its Constitutional right to live a peaceful life without abuse from those responsible for its life. Sarah Brown was a fe...

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... under the mandate of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Although the unanimous ruling declared that segregation in education was inherently unequal, many Southern politicians regarded the decision as a "clear abuse of judicial power" and ten years after the case only one percent of Negro students in the South attended desegregated schools. It was not until 1954 that the doctrine of ... in America's schools. Aided by the local chapter of the NAACP, a group of thirteen parents filed a class action suit against the Board of Education of Topeka Schools. Governor of Alabama George Wallac...

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... twenty-one, pregnant with her third child, and unmarried when the case was filed. She was a ninth-grade dropout who had a very tough life. She had suffered physical and emotional abuse as a child, spent some time in reform school, and was raped as a teen-ager. She abused alcohol and drugs and was later beaten by a husband whom she married at age ... follow a pro-choice policy. He stated his intentions were to promote policies that kept abortion safe while decreasing the need for abortion. These restrictions were once again enacted though when George W. Bush took over the office of Presi...

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• Grade Level: High School