[Trigger warning.]
Melissa Silverstein's got a must-read guest post by Jennifer Boulanger, M.Ed., the Executive Director of the Allentown Women's Center, an independent abortion and reproductive health care center in Pennsylvania, about last week's episode of Law & Order, which centered around late-term abortion.
There's contact info to register a complaint at the link, if you're so inclined.
I haven't watched any of the L&Os for ages, mostly because there just got to be too damn many episodes of megafail like this one. L&O:SVU is the worst, with so many episodes ending with a SHOCKING TWIST!!!! that totally turns reality about sex crimes on its head just to communicate that women are totes lying bitchez, amiright?
The first episode I've seen of any of them in I-don't-know-how-long happened to be the other night, when I was suffering a bout of insomnia, and it was the episode where Christine Lahti, one of my favorite actresses and so dreadfully under-used, playing the prosecutor, was humiliated by showing up drunk to court.
And not just run-of-the-mill humiliated. Oh no. Humiliated by getting called out by the defendant, a black-out alcoholic who'd raped and murdered a woman, for reasons he couldn't even remember, during a binge. And if that weren't bad enough, he got to go free because of prosecutorial misconduct attributed to her drinking.
Oy.
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