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On the recordSeptember 3, 2018
So all of us could vote because five people have said liberty means right to--the State has no interest here, compelling interest before medical viability, that we could pass all the laws we want, it does not matter because they fall.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham argues that Supreme Court decisions override legislative actions on abortion.

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