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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Seeley may believe that murdering doctors like Ellen Reed was acceptable since he believes abortion is murder. But he doesn't pull the trigger himself because he knows it is wrong.
* AFoolForAClient: Seeley decides to represent himself.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: DirtyCoward: What Seeley may believe truly is, as [=McCoy=] proves. The man insists that murdering doctors like Ellen Reed was acceptable is justified since he believes abortion is murder. But Yet he doesn't pull the trigger got his followers to kill them instead of doing it himself because he knows in his heart it is would be murder and wrong.
* AFoolForAClient: Seeley decides to represent himself.himself in a blatant attempt to spread his anti-abortion platform.
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* AFoolForAClient: Seeley decides to represent himself.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Seeley quotes "The Lord said unto Jeremiah: 'I knew you when you were in the womb.'" This is presumably intended as Jeremiah 1:5, in which God actually says "Before I created you in the belly I knew you". If you actually attempt to follow Seeley's logic, then even preventing conception would be murder!

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* TheFundamentalist: Drew Seeley, the defrocked priest, seeks to protect the unborn.



* InsistentTerminology: Nancy Gunther keeps using the word "''pre''born" when talking about her actions and Jenkins's.
* KnightTemplar: Drew Seeley, the defrocked priest, seeks to protect the unborn.

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* InsistentTerminology: Nancy Gunther keeps using the word "''pre''born" when talking about her actions and Jenkins's.
* KnightTemplar: Drew Seeley, the defrocked priest, seeks to protect the unborn.
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%% Administrivia/Trope was rogue-launched * IndirectSerialKiller: Seeley encourages his followers to kill abortion doctors, even acquiring and distributing the name and address of one of them. When said doctor dies, he denies any responsibility, although is openly gleefully about about how many dead doctors there are. Later in the episode he ends up confessing while using the justification defense in an attempt to further his anti-abortion cause. Unfortunately for Seeley, [=McCoy=] is able to tear this to shreds.

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%% Administrivia/Trope was rogue-launched * IndirectSerialKiller: Seeley encourages his followers to kill abortion doctors, even acquiring and distributing the name and address of one of them. When said doctor dies, he denies any responsibility, although is openly gleefully about about how many dead doctors there are. Later in the episode he ends up confessing while using the justification defense in an attempt to further his anti-abortion cause. Unfortunately for Seeley, [=McCoy=] is able to tear this to shreds.
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* IndirectSerialKiller: Seeley encourages his followers to kill abortion doctors, even acquiring and distributing the name and address of one of them. When said doctor dies, he denies any responsibility, although is openly gleefully about about how many dead doctors there are. Later in the episode he ends up confessing while using the justification defense in an attempt to further his anti-abortion cause. Unfortunately for Seeley, [=McCoy=] is able to tear this to shreds.

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%% Administrivia/Trope was rogue-launched * IndirectSerialKiller: Seeley encourages his followers to kill abortion doctors, even acquiring and distributing the name and address of one of them. When said doctor dies, he denies any responsibility, although is openly gleefully about about how many dead doctors there are. Later in the episode he ends up confessing while using the justification defense in an attempt to further his anti-abortion cause. Unfortunately for Seeley, [=McCoy=] is able to tear this to shreds.
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* EvilHasStandards: Seeley may believe that murdering doctors like Ellen Reed was acceptable since he believes abortion is murder. But he doesn't pull the trigger himself because he knows it is wrong.
* IndirectSerialKiller: Seeley encourages his followers to kill abortion doctors, even acquiring and distributing the name and address of one of them. When said doctor dies, he denies any responsibility, although is openly gleefully about about how many dead doctors there are. Later in the episode he ends up confessing while using the justification defense in an attempt to further his anti-abortion cause. Unfortunately for Seeley, McCoy is able to tear this to shreds.

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* EvilHasStandards: EvenEvilHasStandards: Seeley may believe that murdering doctors like Ellen Reed was acceptable since he believes abortion is murder. But he doesn't pull the trigger himself because he knows it is wrong.
* IndirectSerialKiller: Seeley encourages his followers to kill abortion doctors, even acquiring and distributing the name and address of one of them. When said doctor dies, he denies any responsibility, although is openly gleefully about about how many dead doctors there are. Later in the episode he ends up confessing while using the justification defense in an attempt to further his anti-abortion cause. Unfortunately for Seeley, McCoy [=McCoy=] is able to tear this to shreds.
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* IndirectSerialKiller: Seeley encourages his followers to kill abortion doctors, even acquiring and distributing the name and address of one of them. When said doctor dies, he denies any responsibility, although is openly gleefully about about how many dead doctors there are. Later in the episode he ends up confessing while using the justification defense in an attempt to further his anti-abortion cause. Unfortunately for Seeley, McCoy is able to tear this to shreds.
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* EvilHasStandards: Seeley may believe that murdering doctors like Ellen Reed was acceptable since he believes abortion is murder. But he doesn't pull the trigger himself because he knows it is wrong.

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A physician named Ellen Reed is shot and killed. At the crime scene, Logan and Briscoe note that the doctor was wearing a bulletproof vest when she was killed. They find in her purse a "wanted" poster accusing her of mass murder on account of practicing abortions. In exchange for her death, the poster promises a reward of "eternal grace". The detectives go to the clinic where she worked performing abortions and find a crowd of protestors. One of the more fervent ones, Mark Bryant, photographs license plates of staff. He claims to condemn the murder of abortion doctors, as violence begets violence.

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A physician named Ellen Reed is shot and killed. At the crime scene, Logan and Briscoe note that the doctor was wearing a bulletproof vest when she was killed. They find in her purse a "wanted" poster accusing her of mass murder on account of practicing abortions. In exchange for her death, the poster promises a reward of "eternal grace". The detectives go to the clinic where she worked performing abortions and find a crowd of protestors. One of the more fervent ones, Mark Bryant, photographs license plates of staff. He claims to condemn the murder of abortion doctors, as violence begets violence. Further investigation leads the detectives to the shooter, Randall Jenkins, and former priest Drew Seeley.
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* InsistentTerminology: Nancy Gunther keeps using the word "''pre''born" when talking about her actions and Jenkins's.
* KnightTemplar: Drew Seeley, the defrocked priest, seeks to protect the unborn.
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A physician named Ellen Reed is shot and killed. At the crime scene, Logan and Briscoe note that the doctor was wearing a bulletproof vest when she was killed. They find in her purse a "wanted" poster accusing her of mass murder on account of practicing abortions. In exchange for her death, the poster promises a reward of "eternal grace". The detectives go to the clinic where she worked performing abortions and find a crowd of protestors. One of the more fervent ones, Mark Bryant, photographs license plates of staff. He claims to condemn the murder of abortion doctors, as violence begets violence.

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