Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
The Burden of Our Choices (2019)
Kira McLean: Evangeline Miller
Quotes
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Trevor Langan : The Millers' main agenda is to force a 13-year-old rape victim to carry to term, to prevent her from exercising her right to choose.
Tammy Miller : Evie would never choose murder.
James Miller : I don't know who's gotten into her head, but this is not the daughter we raised.
Evangeline Miller : No, I can't go back home!
Tammy Miller : Evangeline!
Evangeline Miller : [points to James] I can't because he put this baby inside me!
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Evangeline Miller : [to Rollins] My friends keep texting me, and Pastor Mark keeps e-mailing me, and that lawyer. They all say murder is never the right choice, that getting an abortion destroys two lives, and it's my obligation to show the world that I choose life.
Amanda Rollins : Evangeline, the rest of the world, that's not your responsibility.
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Olivia Benson : [after Evangeline accuses her stepfather of raping her] Do you remember how old you were?
Evangeline Miller : The day after my birthday. Eleven. He came into my room, sat on my bed... said I was becoming a woman.
Amanda Rollins : What did he do?
Evangeline Miller : He took off my pajamas. At first, we'd just lay there. He said he loved me. That if I loved him, I'd do this. And then he touched me.
Amanda Rollins : Can... can you tell us more?
Evangeline Miller : One night, he said I was ready. He put his thing in, and it hurt. I said no. That I was waiting 'til marriage. He said it didn't count, though, 'cause he was married to my mom, that we were family.
Olivia Benson : So, Evangeline, it's okay if you didn't, but did you tell your mom?
Evangeline Miller : I tried once. She wouldn't listen. Jim got so mad. He said if Mama found out, he'd have to leave us.
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Evangeline Miller : The judge said Ohio was wrong. So I can get an abortion?
Amanda Rollins : Those are, uh, two separate cases. Mr. Langan will go back to family court. Listen, this judge is likely to rule in your favor. You just have to be patient a little bit longer.
Evangeline Miller : Everyone knows who I am. The Ohio girl.
Amanda Rollins : I'm sorry.
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Evangeline Miller : What's gonna happen to him?
Amanda Rollins : Your stepfather?
[Evangeline nods]
Amanda Rollins : We don't know yet, but I do know you will never have to live with him again.
Evangeline Miller : My mom say that?
Amanda Rollins : That's also gonna take a little bit of time.
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Evangeline Miller : My mom and Jim are here in New York?
Olivia Benson : Well, they're worried about you.
Evangeline Miller : I didn't want them to find out.
Olivia Benson : Find out what, honey?
Amanda Rollins : That you're pregnant?
Evangeline Miller : Mm-hmm.
Amanda Rollins : We're worried about you, too. And if there's anything you want to tell us, your parents don't have to know.
Evangeline Miller : They can't know that I disobeyed God's word. And they can't know why I'm here in New York.
Olivia Benson : Okay, Evangeline, why... why are you here?
Evangeline Miller : To get an abortion.
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Evangeline Miller : [at an abortion clinic] I'm scared.
Amanda Rollins : I'll be here, waiting.
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Evangeline Miller : [to Rollins] Do you believe God makes mistakes?
Amanda Rollins : I don't know. I definitely know humans do.
Evangeline Miller : If God doesn't make mistakes, that means this baby is part of His plan.
Amanda Rollins : That may be, but we don't always know what His plan is.
Evangeline Miller : Can we pray together?
[holds Rollins' hand]
Evangeline Miller : Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much for sending Amanda to help me. Please help me figure out what I'm supposed to do.
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Tammy Miller : [to Evangeline] I'll take the child. All you have to do is give birth. I'll raise the baby like your little brother or sister.
Evangeline Miller : What about Jim?
Tammy Miller : I'll talk to him. Whatever misunderstanding this was, we'll work it out.
Evangeline Miller : Misunderstanding? He raped me.
Tammy Miller : Who told you that? That language. You're putting words in her mouth.
Olivia Benson : Mrs. Miller, now is not the time.
Tammy Miller : This is your fault. If you had just given her to us, let us take her back to Ohio, she would be fine. She never would've tried to kill her own child.
Evangeline Miller : No, Mama. I wasn't trying to kill the baby. I was trying to kill myself.
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Evangeline Miller : Next year, I'm supposed to go to high school. I don't want to drop out. I'm too young to have a baby.
Olivia Benson : That is completely your decision, Evangeline. Okay, we're just... we're just trying to sort this out.
Amanda Rollins : Now, can you tell us how you got pregnant?
Evangeline Miller : I turned my back on God. I didn't save myself for marriage.
Olivia Benson : So... so it was someone you know. Okay, well, we know that you came here to see Isaac.
Evangeline Miller : I wanted him to help me.
Olivia Benson : So was it Isaac?
Amanda Rollins : Just tell us what happened. It's gonna be okay.
Evangeline Miller : I didn't want to say no to him.
Amanda Rollins : Did he force you?
Evangeline Miller : He kept asking. He said he loved me, that it was our secret. That if I told anyone, my mom, things would be really bad. I should've told her, but I was just too afraid that she wouldn't believe me.
Amanda Rollins : None of this is your fault, honey.
Evangeline Miller : You can't tell my mom, or Jim, or Pastor Mark that I want an abortion. They would never allow it.
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Tammy Miller : I had a vision we'd find you safe.
Evangeline Miller : I'm okay, Mama.
James Miller : Your mother's been worried sick. What were you thinking?
Evangeline Miller : I'm sorry.
Tammy Miller : James, she's here. She's safe.
James Miller : Yeah.
Tammy Miller : We can all go home now.
James Miller : Okay.
Evangeline Miller : I don't want to go home.
Tammy Miller : Of course you do.
Evangeline Miller : They said I didn't have to.
Amanda Rollins : We need to talk about a few things first.
James Miller : Okay, it doesn't matter. We're your parents. You have to obey us. Come on.
Amanda Rollins : Actually...
[a patrol officer leads Trevor Langan in]
Amanda Rollins : Evangeline, this is Trevor Langan.
Trevor Langan : I'm going to represent you.
Tammy Miller : Why does she need a lawyer?
James Miller : Yeah, what is going on?