One of the better shows on network television is the hit crime drama Law and Order and its two spin-offs SVU and Criminal Intent. While the plots are normally compelling and the acting superb the show more and more often has taken to presenting plots that are less centered around the investigation of a crime and the trail that follows and more about inventing the situations liberals so wish exist so their policies will make sense.

    SVU is a good example, one character (played by Richard Belzer) frequently throws out leftist one liners. For instance in one case the detectives investigate a stabbing that left a boy paralyzed, it eventually lead them to a lesbian couple that had sued to get their daughter into a Catholic school. The couple’s home was vandalized and they recived threatening calls. Belzer’s character responded to this by saying “Since when did New York become a Red State?” This statement was apparently based on the large number of “red staters” who listed “vandalizing the homes of homosexuals” as their main political activities

    SVU also takes on the abortion argument, if by “takes on the argument” you mean “presents a case that accounts for a miniscule percent of all abortions as a common occurrence.” In the story a girl is found beaten in her hotel room. It quickly becomes obvious that she is pregnant, after Teddy Kennedy is found to have air tight alibi the detectives search elsewhere. The theory goes that the boyfriend beat her to kill the baby. The girl is once again beaten by the same boy later. The police begin to investigate into the girl’s life.

    Here is where the show decides to throw cheap shot’s at abstinence programs. The father of the girl says she can’t be pregnant because she made the “Golden Promise” not to have sex till she’s married. Instantly Belzer’s character lashes out at the program, blaming it for a 50% percent pregnancy rate at a high school. When the girl’s boyfriend is found to be from the same school Belzer triumphantly states “That’s two golden promises broken.”

    Turns out the girl had snuck into New York because she wanted to get an abortion. She was unable to obtain it in her home state because the state had a parental notification law. (Her father kicked her older sister out of the house when she got pregnant.) She was unable to get an abortion pill because the Evil pharmacist in her community said doing so was against his conscience. (Boy for some reason the word conscience reminds me of a certain law that liberals don‘t like). She then ordered an herbal remedy over the internet to try and induce an abortion. (I guess you really can buy anything on the internet).

    Alas, alas all her efforts came to naught and she had to go to New York for her abortion. When she went to the clinic she ended up at a fake abortion clinic (oddly enough I’ve never heard of a fake abortion clinic) that kept on making excuses to prevent performing the abortion. At her wits end the girl asks he boyfriend to beat her to kill the baby. She helps by beating herself, it only appeared that she was being abused (her cries of “Don’t! Stop!” were actually “don’t stop!) In the end the fake abortion clinic doctor is arrested as the show ends.

    This is typical of Hollywood’s treatment of pro-life America. Pro-choice people are intelligent and well composed and pro-life people are naïve conmen. The “good guys” (with the exception of the DA) are all pro-choice, and the laws that conservatives like--conscience laws to protect pharmacists, parental notification laws, anti-beating-your-girlfriend-in-the-belly-to-induce-an-abortion laws-- all contributed to the crime.

    Not to mention that the situation the girl found herself in (which was designed to gain maximum sympathy for the girl) isn’t exactly what you would call a common situation. The whole episode was a very pathetic attempt to invent the type of situation feminists love to site as proof abortion is necessary to prevent the death of women. (Originally, the position was the baby wasn’t enough of a baby to warrant protection but those stupid sonograms had to go and ruin that one…) It’s time for Law and Order SVU to stop political soap boxing and go back to being a crime drama.