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WHAT WAS SEN. FRED Thompson (R-Tenn.), the first sitting U.S. senator to have a recurring role on a TV show, doing mouthing off about how "Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided" on the Nov. 6 episode of NBC's Law & Order? Pro-choice viewers of the show--the most popular network drama in the country on Wednesday nights--could only watch in horror as the senator, playing the role of New York City District Attorney Arthur Branch, lit into the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.

"Let me ask you something," Branch queried prosecutor Serena ...

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