In this recent episode of Law and Order, based loosely on the murder of abortionist George Tiller, a TV show seems to present a fair and balanced and truthful view of abortion. What’s up with that?
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I’ve noticed that Law and Order allows (and even champions) the “conservative” point of view pretty often. It’s one of the reasons I like the show–it manages to make even pro-lifers, on the whole, look reasoned and sane.
I’ve been hearing talk about this too! Wish I’d seen the episode. I stopped watching around the time Lenny died but I find that show is really quite good at showing both sides of the coin. On Law & Order: SVU one of the officers is even Catholic bringing lots of “the other side’s” viewpoint.
Powerful. They *did* manage to slip in a little dig about how pro-lifers should be anti-capital-punishment (which is rubbish, as I’ve blogged about myself – http://tinyurl.com/prolifecontradiction). Overall, though, they gave a very fair hearing to the pro-life side. I’m actually wondering if they were as fair to the other side. (I can’t really assess it since I don’t understand that side.)
My tinyurl thingy seems to have grabbed the close-parens, so it’ll need to be removed.
gosh, I actually did not watch the episode because I assumed, wrongly it seems, that it was going to be very anti-pro-life. I just hate yelling at the TV screen…I will have to watch it now.