It was controversial mainly for two reasons: Because it involved the abortion attempt of a young woman who was a physical and emotions abuse victim, who had also lied to authorities in Texas in order to get a legal abortion. Public opinion was largely divided on the issue. Conservatives blamed the woman and Democrats blamed the existing laws that prevented women from aborting.
The second reason was judicial: many people considered that the Constitution was being misinterpreted to adjust to shifting social mores. For these dissenters, there was no legal justification of any kind to authorize abortion as a Constitutional right.
Answer:
1. After Reconstruction, many southern states enacted a poll tax, which was used to Ensure poor African Americans could not afford to vote.
2.Literacy tests, requiring voters to pass in order to vote. Because African Americans were exploited economically and denied an education, these restrictions disqualified many of them as voters.
