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02-08-2018, 04:52 PM
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/lindsay-kornick/2018/02/08/svu-lawyer-who-euthanized-terminally-ill-infant-decent-man
By Lindsay Kornick | February 8, 2018 1:57 AM EST
Looks like NBC’s Law & Order: SVU still hasn’t learned a bit from last week’s disaster. Somehow, they’ve managed to jump from raping a conservative pundit straight into euthanizing a ten-month-old baby. Safe to say, decency standards have left the room ages ago.
The February 7 episode “The Undiscovered Country” (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/66382-s19e13-the-undiscovered-country/?do=getLastComment) introduces us to a case where a man named Aaron (Joe Tapper) kidnaps his infant son, Drew, from his wife, Maggie (Abigail Hawk). After locating the man, the NYPD precinct soon discovers a deeper issue between the couple. Their infant son suffers from a condition called mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome which causes rapid muscle weakness. Eventually, he will be unable to breathe without a machine.
As part of the show’s “ripped from the headlines” style, this episode takes some of its inspiration from the infamous Charlie Gard case (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449079/charlie-gard-court-ordered-killing-defies-parents-wishes). Both situations involve an infant suffering from a rare genetic disorder that develops into a debate over the morality of so-called mercy killing. However, while Charlie's case shone a light on government-run socialized medicine in the U.K. sentencing an infant to death against the wishes of his parents, this story adds the twist of the mother being the one who wants to euthanize her baby. In fact, the U.S. government is the one preventing her from doing this because her husband objects to the act and it has to go through the courts.
She makes her wishes explicitly clear to the detectives upon investigation.
By Lindsay Kornick | February 8, 2018 1:57 AM EST
Looks like NBC’s Law & Order: SVU still hasn’t learned a bit from last week’s disaster. Somehow, they’ve managed to jump from raping a conservative pundit straight into euthanizing a ten-month-old baby. Safe to say, decency standards have left the room ages ago.
The February 7 episode “The Undiscovered Country” (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/66382-s19e13-the-undiscovered-country/?do=getLastComment) introduces us to a case where a man named Aaron (Joe Tapper) kidnaps his infant son, Drew, from his wife, Maggie (Abigail Hawk). After locating the man, the NYPD precinct soon discovers a deeper issue between the couple. Their infant son suffers from a condition called mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome which causes rapid muscle weakness. Eventually, he will be unable to breathe without a machine.
As part of the show’s “ripped from the headlines” style, this episode takes some of its inspiration from the infamous Charlie Gard case (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449079/charlie-gard-court-ordered-killing-defies-parents-wishes). Both situations involve an infant suffering from a rare genetic disorder that develops into a debate over the morality of so-called mercy killing. However, while Charlie's case shone a light on government-run socialized medicine in the U.K. sentencing an infant to death against the wishes of his parents, this story adds the twist of the mother being the one who wants to euthanize her baby. In fact, the U.S. government is the one preventing her from doing this because her husband objects to the act and it has to go through the courts.
She makes her wishes explicitly clear to the detectives upon investigation.