{"id":4621,"date":"2006-02-14T09:07:37","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T09:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/next-up-2.html"},"modified":"2006-02-14T09:07:37","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T09:07:37","slug":"next-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/next-up-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Next up:"},"content":{"rendered":"

Law and Order<\/em> dramatizes a case of abortion rights protesters assaulting prolife advocates as they pray the rosary…<\/p>\n

In your dreams.<\/p>\n

What’s up on Boston Legal<\/em> tonight?<\/a> (Besides a bloviating, puffy William Shatner …)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Although the Bush administration continues to spurn emergency contraception, promoters of the method are partying.<\/p>\n

Across the country, they are gathering with friends and neighbors to watch tonight’s episode of the ABC-TV show Boston Legal<\/em>. It will feature "a teenaged girl who was brutally raped and is now pregnant. The girl wants to sue the Catholic hospital where she was treated because they refused to provide her with emergency contraception," the network says.<\/p>\n

Carol Petraitis, an emergency-contraception advocate at the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, posted Boston Legal<\/em> viewing guides and sexual-assault fact sheets on an ACLU Web site, raisinghervoice.org.<\/p>\n

"This is a good way to show there are real victims and this is a real problem," Petraitis said.<\/p>\n

In the episode, the teenager goes to court and, well, suffice it to say the verdict is a Valentine to victims’ advocates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Across the country, they are gathering…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nNext up: - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/next-up-2.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Next up: - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Law and Order dramatizes a case of abortion rights protesters assaulting prolife advocates as they pray the rosary… In your dreams. 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