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  2. Abortion in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The abortion debate most commonly relates to the induced abortion of a pregnancy, which is also how the term "abortion" is used in a legal sense. [nb 1] The terms "elective abortion" and "voluntary abortion" refer to the interruption of pregnancy, before viability, at the request of the woman but not for medical reasons. [34]

  3. Southern Baptist Convention - Wikipedia

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    The official name is the Southern Baptist Convention.The word Southern in "Southern Baptist Convention" stems from its having been organized in 1845 in Augusta, Georgia, by white Baptists in the Southern United States who supported continuing the institution of slavery and split from the northern Baptists (known today as the American Baptist Churches USA), who did not support funding slave ...

  4. U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Wikipedia

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    United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the largest federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security.It is the country's primary border control organization, charged with regulating and facilitating international trade, collecting import duties, as well as enforcing U.S. regulations, including trade, customs and immigration.

  5. Jimmy Carter - Wikipedia

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    James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, and a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967.

  6. Geography of Kentucky - Wikipedia

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    Kentucky has more navigable miles of water than any other state in the union, other than Alaska. [29] Kentucky is the only U.S. state to have a continuous border of rivers running along three of its sides – the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Big Sandy River and Tug Fork to the east. [30]

  7. Immigration and Naturalization Service - Wikipedia

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    Referred to by some as former INS [2] and by others as legacy INS, the agency ceased to exist under that name on March 1, 2003, when most of its functions were transferred to three new entities – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP ...

  8. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    Founded by Great Britain as a colony for emancipated slaves. [83] Great Britain: Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade founded in Great Britain. [70] 1788: Sir William Dolben's Act regulating the conditions on British slave ships enacted. France: Abolitionist Society of the Friends of the Blacks founded in Paris. Denmark

  9. Kentucky Wildcats football - Wikipedia

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    Kentucky went on to beat: Mississippi State, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, and North Carolina State in the Gator Bowl. Kentucky's losses were to (in order): Auburn, Mississippi, Missouri, Georgia Bulldogs, Alabama and Florida. This season saw the Wildcats win in Knoxville for the first time since 1984.