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Essay / Ferguson v. Charleston, SC - 526
In the case of Ferguson v. Charleston, SC case was properly decided. The Supreme Court's decision that the Medical University of South Carolina's (MUSC) drug testing policy was a violation of the Fourth Amendment was the correct decision because the search was indeed unreasonable (Ferguson v. Charleston (99 -936) 532 US 67 (2001). MUSC had created a policy that required all pregnant women suspected of: lack of prenatal care, known history of drug or alcohol abuse, intrauterine fetal death, or anti-placental abortion medications, to be tested (Dubin, 1999 , p. 279). . In 1989, thirty pregnant women who tested positive were reported to Charleston police for child abuse. MUSC and the Charleston Police Department had created this policy that required pregnant women to be screened and, if they tested positive, prosecuted. MUSC's policy violated women's Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches because the screenings were not consensual, they were conducted without a warrant, and positive tests were turned over to police. Under the Fourth Amendment...