Law & Order (TV Series)
Scrambled (1998)
Angie Harmon: ADA Abbie Carmichael
Quotes
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Adam Schiff : How long do these frozen embryos last?
A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael : Nobody knows.
Adam Schiff : Figures.
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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.
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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.