National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

An American woman who suffered brain damage and became dependent on a feeding tube. She collapsed in her home on February 25, 1990, and experienced respiratory and cardiac arrest, resulting in extensive brain damage, a diagnosis of persistent vegetative state (PVS) and 15 years of institutionalization. In 1998, Michael Schiavo, her husband and guardian, petitioned the Pinellas County Circuit Court to remove her feeding tube. Robert and Mary Schindler, her parents, opposed this, arguing she was conscious. The court determined that Schiavo would not wish to continue life-prolonging measures.

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Sterilization intended to prevent the reproduction and multiplication of members of the population considered to be carriers of defective genetic traits.

Any devices, drugs, or chemical agents that prevent conception.

Named for Charles Darwin, Social Darwinism is the theory that competition among all individuals, groups, nations or ideas drives social evolution in human societies.

State and local laws enacted primarily but not exclusively in the Southern and border states of the United States, between 1876 and 1965 that  mandated segregation in all public facilities, with a "separate but equal" status for black Americans and members of other non-white racial groups.

Discrimination against and hatred of Jews.

Term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi) regime in Germany led by Adolf Hitler.

The official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites.