Slattery's career is at stake in a fight over over a bill to permit humane abortion. Barbara Harrison knows that the child she's expecting is the only thing keeping her marriage together. But the child may suffer congenital defects— Barbara has German measles. The episode examines the legal and ethical aspects of therapeutic abortion.

Representative Slattery investigates a group called the Frontiersmen and listens to their leader spitting fear and hatred.

Serious, downbeat drama about foster homes . The plot deals with a foster child who claims mistreatment and wants to go back to his undependable, drinking father. A good cast led by Ossie Davis, Audrey Christie and young Pat Cardi. While investigating the placement of foster children, Slattery meets 11-year-old Eddie Stakely, who says that he is being mistreated by his adoptive mother.