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Lamar S. Smith

"Judges should interpret the law, not make it."

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"Judges should interpret the law, not make it."

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"An older man who seems to be the leader of the Jesus Tshirt group says that the Bible forbids abortion in its commandment "Thou shall not kill.But being in the Bible Belt, people really know their Bible, and an older woman cites Exodus 21:22"23, a passage that says a man who causes a pregnant woman to miscarry must pay a fine but is not charged with murder, not unless the woman herself dies.Thus the Bible is making clear, that a dependent life is not the same as an independent life."

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