# "Law and Order" and recycled actors

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-and-order-and-recycled-actors/190356>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 23, 2003, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-and-order-and-recycled-actors/190356 "2003-07-23T12:00:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-and-order-and-recycled-actors/190356/41 "2003-07-24T16:01:45Z")

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> \*Originally posted by ivylass \*  
> \*\*I remembered one!
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> L&O: The abortion episode NBC only showed once, where a pregnant woman bombed an abortion clinic and was killed in the blast. Ben Stone got the mastermind by asking her, “If abortion is murder no matter what, are you not guilty of the death of (the bomber’s) unborn child?”\*\*

**slight nitpick**

This ep was shown more than once on A&E, and the plot was that a woman bombed a clinic where one of the members of the anti-choice organization had secretly gone to procure an abortion (hypocrisy, gotta love it). The member was in a washroom and hadn’t undergone the procedure yet when she was killed by the blast, so Stone held the defendant responsible for the death of the not-yet-aborted fetus, which is what cracked her. The dead pregnant woman was the original suspect, but they found out that she was there to terminate her pregnancy, not bomb the clinic.

**nitpick over**

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**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-and-order-and-recycled-actors/190356/42 "2003-07-24T16:09:15Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by ivylass \*  
> \*\*I remembered one!
> 
> L&O: The abortion episode NBC only showed once, where a pregnant woman bombed an abortion clinic and was killed in the blast. Ben Stone got the mastermind by asking her, “If abortion is murder no matter what, are you not guilty of the death of (the bomber’s) unborn child?”\*\*

**slight nitpick**

This ep was shown more than once on A&E, and the plot was that a woman bombed a clinic where one of the members of the anti-choice organization had secretly gone to procure an abortion (hypocrisy, gotta love it). The member was in a washroom and hadn’t undergone the procedure yet when she was killed by the blast, so Stone held the defendant responsible for the death of the not-yet-aborted fetus, which is what cracked her. The dead pregnant woman was the original suspect, but they found out that she was there to terminate her pregnancy, not bomb the clinic.

**nitpick over**

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-and-order-and-recycled-actors/190356/43 "2003-07-24T16:47:04Z")

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I thought the pregnant lady was the one who planted the bomb? And I know it was shown several times on A&E, but NBC only showed it once.

Still, the mastermind behind it helped buy the bomb materials, which is why she was charged too.

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