- Detective Lennie Briscoe: I thought my sex life was complicated when I had to wear a condom.
- Det. Rey Curtis: Is that freaky enough for you? You can be a mother *after* you're dead.
- Dr. Harvey Purcell: Why are they arguing about embryos when my wife is dead? Sarah was not a POTENTIAL human being!
- Adam Schiff: How long do these frozen embryos last?
- A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: Nobody knows.
- Adam Schiff: Figures.
- Det. Rey Curtis: You know, the newsletter guy's right. Rutland IS playing God.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: He's playing with the brains God gave him: isn't that kosher?
- Det. Rey Curtis: What - making babies in a test tube? Storing leftover babies in a freezer?
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: [correcting Curtis] Embryos!
- Det. Rey Curtis: Fine - embryos.
- Lt. Anita Van Buren: My sister couldn't have a baby. They tried for years. It was really painful.
- Det. Rey Curtis: Well maybe she wasn't meant to have a baby.
- Lt. Anita Van Buren: [pause] Excuse me?
- 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.
- Mrs. Lasky: The doctor put four embryos inside of me. Two of them started to grow, but they found a problem with my heart. It was dangerous to for me to carry *one* baby. They call it selective reduction, nice way to put it. I won't tell my little girl that I aborted her twin sister.
- Det. Rey Curtis: Experimenting with embryos experimenting with fetuses.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Come on, Rey. If some doctor could cure your wife with cells from a fetus...
- Det. Rey Curtis: It wouldn't be right.
- Detective Lennie Briscoe: Yeah, but do you think Deborah would agree?
- Det. Rey Curtis: Oh, you want to make this personal, Lennie? Let's say your daughter stored some eggs before she died. You could still be a grandfather. Does that sound good to you?
- [Lennie doesn't answer]
- Det. Rey Curtis: Scientists! If they can do it, they do it. They never think whether they *should* do it.
- 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.