[stylist] anybody else watch tonight's law and order, discuss?

[James Canaday M.A. N6YR]

dear list members,
I'll try to find an NBC summary of tonight's plot.  but in tonight's 
episode a couple with a severely disabled child planned to have their 
child surgically and hormonally prevented from growing up.  that, so 
that she would be easier to care for, and to avoid  certain complications.

the Judge, and Jack Maccoy (now the D.A.) held that it was not the 
state's place to condemn this behavior.  The judge cited the 
Fourteenth Amendment.  and the assistant D.A. named Cutter, said (I 
think rightly so) that because the daughter is disabled did not mean 
that the parents had the right to maim their daughter  he was 
overruled.  my wife was in tears at the end, and I was shouting at 
the TV, at the end.

we've discussed whether to talk about this episode with the national 
NFB, and whether to call local affiliates of NBC.

so, I just wondered if any of you saw it too.
thanks,

jc

Jim Canaday M.A.
Lawrence, KS