SVU ; [WASTE] *

Today I watched an episode of SVU and from the very beginning it was a complete shock. It starts with a patient who is in the ICU. She was just transferred to the hospital from a rehab center as she has been there since she got into a car accident a year before. The doctor tending to her called SVU after doing a check up on her and found out she was six weeks pregnant. What makes the situation worse; she been in a vegetative state since her car accident a year prior. They begin the investigation by looking into all who cared for her. They talk to one of the caretakers at the hospital that says that her ex-fiancee was seen earlier that week in the victims room sleeping in her bed with her. Detectives check out the story with the fiancee and find out he had been seeing her once a month secretly, due to the restraining order the victims parents had put on him.
A little while later, the parent's of the victim find that their daughter has been transferred back to the same rehab center she was raped at. When detectives walk in they find the victims mother at the information desk where she is attempting to find out where her daughter has been placed. Moments later they find she has been sent into surgery. It is later found out that the doctor that detectives earlier questioned ordered the victims pregnancy to be terminated without the consent of the parents. He claims it was a "medical emergency" and he had the consent of the victim father.
The doctor's story checks out however when looking further in the investigation they find that this isn't the first time the doctor has been in this situation. Detectives find out that patients in similar situations were being artificially inseminated and used for stem cell research. The doctor is put on trial and is let go free of all but one charge due to the heart wrenching tale told by the man the stem cells were made for. At the end of the episode we find the man with Parkinson's is filing for custody of the baby for the umbilical cord, full of the cells he needs.