Sam Waterston credited as playing...
Executive ADA Jack McCoy
- 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.
- 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.