This episode doesn't quite take on, at least not head-on, the persistent lie that forced birth is somehow not only moral, but the implacable will of an apparently misogynist god. The 13-year-old girl in this case was shown to have a "good reason" for wanting an abortion, i.e., that her pregnancy resulted from repeated rape by her stepfather. Then an out-of-state attorney tries to charge the New York D.A.'s office with attempted murder for trying to provide necessary medical care to a minor in need. At the end, A.D.A. Carisi offers the evangelical Ohio lawyer a gratuitous story about his mother's choice to have an abortion after learning that her baby could not survive--again, a "good reaon," not simply the pregnant person's own choice, for whatever reason. It's sad to see SVU pulling its punches like this.
Review of The Burden of Our Choices
