Law & Order (TV Series)

Scrambled (1998)

Sam Waterston: Executive ADA Jack McCoy

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• Arlene Galvin : I wasn't doing anything wrong. Those embryos were mine! They were made from twelve eggs that came out of my body.

  Jack McCoy : Someone else had a valid claim to them and you knew it.

  Arlene Galvin : A valid claim? Do you know why she wanted to have my child? For the money! What kind of life was that child going to have?

  A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael : At least it would be alive, which is more than we can say for Sarah Purcell.

• Adam Schiff : You want to ask 12 people off the street to decide that human embryos are property like this lamp?

  Jack McCoy : Well what are they, people?

  A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael : They're not property. You can sell property, but it's illegal to sell embryos.

  Jack McCoy : It's legal to destroy property. Women have the right to abort fetuses, which are a hell of a lot more developed than those embryos.

  A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael : This is the kind of thing we don't want to get into. You want to argue abortion rights?

  Jack McCoy : You want to argue against abortion rights?

  A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael : Any woman with a *brain* ought to be able to figure out a better method of birth control.