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March 2008
Boston Latex
by James Wortman
This past fall, ABC’s court drama Boston Legal heralded the condom as “the single most important invention of the past 2,000 years” when attorney Alan Shore (James Spader) represented a teenage girl who became infected with HIV after her school’s abstinence-only curriculum failed to teach the importance of prophylactics. In his closing statements (for a full recap, see abc.com), Shore says: “One-time unprotected sex can kill you. A condom can save you. It is inconceivable that every child in the world isn’t taught that.” The prosecution rests.
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