V. Civil Liberties

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V. Civil Liberties
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A. Affirmative Action

• Affirmative Action Government policy that gives
  preference to minorities, women, or physically
  challenged people
• Makes up for past discrimination
• Used by employers and colleges
• Practice was made unconstitutional in Nebraska in
  2008

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B. Right to Privacy

• Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) Constitution
  protects personal privacy
• USA Patriot Act (2002) Gives the federal
  government great powers to detain anyone expected
  of terrorism
• Government does not have to charge you with a
  crime to detain you

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C. Roe V Wade (1973)

• Decided the question (for now) on what limits a
  state can have on a womans right of abortion
• Texas law prohibited all abortions unless the
  mothers life was endangered

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• Supreme Court ruled the Texas law
  unconstitutional
• Separated a pregnancy into trimesters (3
  months)

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1st Trimester

• State can pass no laws that prevent women from
  having an abortion

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2nd Trimester

• Acting in the interest of the mother states may
  regulate but not completely prohibit abortions

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3rd Trimester

• States may prohibit all abortions except those
  necessary to save the life of the mother

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D. Peter Singer the Final Frontier on Abortion

• Dr. Peter Singer Ethic professor who teaches at
  Princeton
• Believes that the ability to rationalize is where
  life begins
• States that since newborns are unable to
  rationalize Parents and doctors should be
  allowed to put them to death until the 18th week
  of life

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• Claims that it is no different than the practice
  of abortion
• Unborn children like newborns can not think for
  themselves
• Parents should also be able to put a disabled
  child to death

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• Believes this practice would rid the world of
  crime and poverty
• States that unwanted children are born ever day
• These parents do not do a proper job of raising
  these children

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• Children without loving parents are the cause of
  all evils in society
• Society as a whole would be better off if these
  unwanted children were put to death as infants