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On the recordJuly 16, 2012
They don't have children. They don't have aspirations. They don't have souls because they are not human. They don't have goals. They don't have all the things that make us different and make us human. But, evidently, they have the same rights. Because they don't truly exist, it is a legal fact that they are a legal fiction. What that is doing is empowering the people behind the corporation, the people who control the corporation, ultimately.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island
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Jul 16, 2012

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