Life Choice
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| Life Choice | ||
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| L&O, Episode 1.12 Production number: 66213 First aired: 8 January 1991 | ||
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| Teleplay By David Black & Robert Nathan Story By Dick Wolf Directed By Aaron Lipstadt | ||
Benjamin Stone faces pressure from the public and from Adam Schiff as he prepares to prosecute the person accused of bombing an abortion clinic.
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[edit] Plot
- Plot
[edit] Guest cast
- Sully Boyar as Judge Harvey Sirkin
- Paul Butler as Judge Tyler B. Ashford
- Kevin Cooney as Geoffrey Donovan
- Clark Gregg as Patrick Dunne
- Bridgit Ryan as Celeste McClure
- Caroline Kava as Rose Schwimmer
- Laurie Kennedy as Barbara Donovan
- Kevin O'Rourke as Kevin Donovan
- Isa Thomas as Gwen Matson
- Jaime Tirelli as CSU Rivera
- Julie Halston as Jane
- Richard M. Davidson as Court Clerk
- Johann Carlo as Colman
- Larry Attile as Foreman
- Rafael Ferrer as Clerk
- Jim Fyfe as Cleary
- Paul Hecht as Ballard
- Jonathan Hogan as Corcoran
- Steve Itkin as O'Hare
- Lennie Loftin as Fogarty
- Camryn Manheim as Leila
- Pat McNamara as Molloy
- Timothy Britten Parker as Cioran
- LaTanya Richardson as Lorraine
- Frank Anderson as Man #1
- Lynn Anderson as Woman #1
- Jane Sanders as Woman #2
- Howard Spiegel as Bernstein
[edit] Quotes
"The mother seems to be taking it pretty hard."
"It's gonna take awhile."
"What, to realize that her daughter is dead?"
"To realize she didn't die with her."
"The father doesn't seem to be having that problem."
"That's because he didn't lose a daughter, he gained a martyr."
- - Mike Logan and Max Greevey
"Now, I don't care what you believe. Trying to prevent abortions by bombing goes way too far. I don't know how you can even *sit* here and defend it!"
"You and I both know they didn't mean to hurt anybody."
"NO, I DON'T KNOW THAT, OKAY? Only an *idiot* thinks bombs don't hurt people."
- - Mike Logan and Max Greevey
"These people aren't criminals."
"What are they, Mary Poppins? Mother Teresa?"
"They're exercising their right of free speech."
"Throwing a bomb is a little non-verbal to qualify as speech, sir."
- - Ballard and Benjamin Stone
"Our daughter did what she did out of her own conscience. We can live with that."
"You can live with that, Geoffrey! A martyr will never be able to tell me what a wonderful day she had at school today! A martyr will never have a wedding! A martyr will never have children!"
- - Geoffrey Donovan and Barbara Donovan
"Okay, Don Juan. Any of your girlfriends ever have an abortion?"
"One ex-girlfriend, who's now married with two kids. Neither of them mine."
- - Max Greevey and Mike Logan
"So a seventeen-year-old should just louse up her whole life by having a kid."
"Seventeen-year-olds shouldn't be doing what makes babies."
"And crooks shouldn't have guns. Get real. C'mon, what they should be is more careful."
"Kids aren't careful, that's why they're kids!"
- - Mike Logan and Max Greevey
"Objection, this case is being judged on the temporal plane, Your Honor."
- - Benjamin Stone
"Amazing. I'm 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?"
- - Adam Schiff
"If you're gonna stick your finger in my eye, Mr. Ballard, clean your own nails first."
- - Benjamin Stone
"If abortion is murder, no matter how you feel about Mary Donovan, aren't you guilty of the murder of her unborn child?"
- - Benjamin Stone
[edit] Trivia
- Trivia
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