Word: condonable
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...viable fetus," Charles Condon has repeatedly declared, "is a fellow South Carolinian." Condon, the state's attorney general, has been searching since 1989, when he was a local prosecutor in Charleston, to find support for that proposition. Now he has found three people who agree with him--and they're three who count. In October three justices of the state's supreme court--a majority--supported Condon's assertion. The court thus became the first in the U.S. to rule that a viable fetus could be considered "a person" under child-abuse laws and that a pregnant woman carrying...
While a solicitor in Charleston, Condon began his program of prosecuting women whose babies tested positive for cocaine. In some cases he had women taken from hospital rooms, handcuffed and jailed. The state supreme court ruling came in the case of Cornelia Whitner, who pleaded guilty to child neglect in 1992 when her baby was born with traces of cocaine in his system. She was sentenced to 8 years in jail, but lower courts overturned the decision on grounds that a fetus was not a person. The state supreme court restored the conviction. (Whitner's attorneys plan to appeal...
Suggesting that her university's decision was financially motivated, Champagne said that allowing the Promise Keepers to use Syracuse facilities "tacitly condon[es] the manipulative practices and repressive thinking of the Promise Keepers...
...path to banning abortion all by itself. In the most aggressive move by any state to grant rights to fetuses, the state's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a mother can be prosecuted for child abuse if she takes drugs during pregnancy. South Carolina's Attorney General Charlie Condon called the ruling a "landmark decision for protecting children" and said he would charge prosecutors and social workers with enforcing the new law. While the ruling is unlikely to have a national effect because South Carolina has not been a bellwether in such court battles, TIME's Adam Cohen reports...
...path to banning abortion all by itself. In the most aggressive move by any state to grant rights to fetuses, the state's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a mother can be prosecuted for child abuse if she takes drugs during pregnancy. South Carolina's Attorney General Charlie Condon called the ruling a "landmark decision for protecting children" and said he would charge prosecutors and social workers with enforcing the new law. While the ruling is unlikely to have a national effect because South Carolina has not been a bellwether in such court battles, TIME's Adam Cohen reports...