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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...
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...
DIED. RICHARD CONDON, 81, author; in Dallas. The movie made of his novel The Manchurian Candidate, a crazy quilt of Asian communists enmeshed with U.S. fascists, seemed fantastic at the time--until the political killing at its core was echoed in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Suddenly Condon's Freudian analysis of America as a nation of dark impulses, largely hidden from itself, was the only explanation that made sense...