Seventeen-year-olds shouldn't be doing the thing that makes babies.
And crooks shouldn't have guns. Get real.
Law & Order · Season 1, Episode 12
“Life Choice” · Season 1, Episode 12
In this episode: Benjamin Stone (3), Mike Logan (1), D.A. Adam Schiff (1), Max Greevey (1)
Seventeen-year-olds shouldn't be doing the thing that makes babies.
And crooks shouldn't have guns. Get real.
Objection, this case is being judged on the temporal plane, your honor.
:[talking about the effect of his sister's death. He seems almost numb.] This morning, my father made himself a cup of coffee. Put in milk, sugar...then he went over to the sink and poured it down the drain. He didn't know what he was doing. I was taking the highway to work, and I forgot to get off. I got to 95th street before I realized. I used to have a sister, and suddenly...I don't.
Amazing. Getting angry. The most emotional issue that the law has dealt with since suffrage. Look at us: three men. Talking about what rights women should have over their own bodies. Now doesn't that strike you as a little one-sided?
Our daughter acted according to her own conscience. We can live with that-
[interrupts him, distraught] YOU can live with that! A martyr will never be able to tell me what a wonderful day she had at school. A martyr will never have a wedding. A martyr will never have children!
If you're gonna stick your finger in my eye, Mr. Ballard, clean your own nails first.
If abortion is murder, then no matter how you feel about Mary Donovan, aren't you guilty of the murder of her unborn child?
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