Reproductive Rights 10 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Cases that turn on abortion and reproductive choice, and the legal fights that surround them.
- Season 3 · Episode 11
Monogamy
A pregnant woman survives an attack in which her baby is cut from her body, and the case against her husband turns on whether the child was ever legally born alive.
- Season 3 · Episode 22
Competence
A pregnant woman with Down syndrome cannot say how it happened, and the search for her rapist runs into a guardianship fight over whether she can decide to keep the baby.
- Season 5 · Episode 7
Choice
A pregnant restaurant owner attacked by her estranged husband ends up in court herself when he challenges her right to an abortion and then her drinking during the pregnancy.
- Season 9 · Episode 3
Impulsive
A high school teacher and her 15-year-old student accuse each other of rape, and the boy’s lawyer argues that a sex addiction made him do it.
- Season 9 · Episode 14
Inconceivable
The theft of 100 frozen embryos sends the squad through a fertility clinic’s most contentious clients, and the activists behind it set off a fatal act of revenge.
- Season 10 · Episode 8
Persona
A battered wife’s rape case leads Benson to the gentle neighbor downstairs, who has spent 34 years hiding from a murder charge for killing her own abusive husband.
- Season 11 · Episode 4
Hammered
A recovering alcoholic wakes up next to a murdered abortion doctor with no memory of the night, and his trial exposes the prosecutor’s own drinking.
- Season 20 · Episode 19
Dearly Beloved
A woman accuses a therapist of rape at his own wedding, but her history of harassing him and others makes SVU doubt her story.
- Season 21 · Episode 4
The Burden of Our Choices
A pregnant 13-year-old flees Ohio to get an abortion in New York, and her fight to end the pregnancy exposes years of abuse at home and sets off a legal battle with Ohio prosecutors.
- Season 27 · Episode 3
A Vicious Circle
A bomb at a fertility clinic destroys a rape suspect’s DNA sample, and the murder of the clinic’s owner leads the squad from antinatalist protesters to her own divorce lawyer.