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Production number: 69420 First aired: 15 February 1995 | ||
Written By Michael S. Chernuchin & Janis Diamond Directed By Don Scardino |
Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate a fertility doctor who has been inseminating his patients with his own sperm.
Plot
A routine investigation into a woman's death leads Briscoe and Logan to a fertility doctor who is responsible of unethical practices, but he cannot be touched because of confidentiality rules and his patients' reluctance to talk.
Cast
Main cast
- Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe
- Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan
- S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren
- Sam Waterston as Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
- Jill Hennessy as A.D.A. Claire Kincaid
- Steven Hill as D.A. Adam Schiff
Recurring cast
- Joan Copeland as Judge Rebecca Stein
- Stephen Henderson as Judge Marc Kramer
- Judy Frank as Judge Jean Bryant
- Ron Frazier as Judge Aldo Iannello
Guest cast
- Mark Blum as Michael Aronson
- David Margulies as Dr. Jordan Delbert
- Jordan Clarke as Mr. Parker
- Kristin Griffith as Clara Brock
- Alyson Reed as Assistant Medical Examiner Heather Coyle
- Ivar Brogger as Nathan Brock
- Deborah Tranelli as Christine Kennedy
- Zach Grenier as Jim Warren
- Thomas Nahrwold as Dr. Lang
- Joyce Lynn O'Connor as Beth Kellner
- Anne Chapin as Carol Miller
- David Phillips as Phil Vaughn
- Donna Mitchell as Susan Parker
- Diedre Bodie-Henderson as Anita
- Beth McDonald as Mary Cooper
- Ron Ryan as Wallace
References
References
Quotes
Quotes
Background information and notes
- This episode is based on the Dr. Cecil Jacobson case. Jacobson operated a fertility clinic in Virginia, and in March of 1992 was sentenced to five years in prison after it was learned that he inseminated seventy-five of his female patients with his own sperm. Jacobson had led the women to believe they were being inseminated with the sperm of anonymous donors who shared many physical characteristics with their own husbands. He also led many of his patients to believe they had become pregnant and miscarried when in fact they had never actually been pregnant. (Source: Cecil Jacobson at Wikipedia)
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