Boston Legal - Argument for Legalized Prostitution

In this scene, Jerry Espenson (played by Christian Clemenson) argues that it has been estimated that legalized prostitution could lower the rape rate by as much as 25%.

Also, criminalizing prostitution doesn't work -- it never has. Making it illegal is a stubborn way of trying to impose a moral viewpoint, but ends up only making it more dangerous. It creates revenue of criminals and is connected with the child sex trade and slave trafficking.

On the other hand, if it became legal we could regulate it -- reducing occurrences of STIs and AIDS. He also hints that we could protect the sex workers themselves, giving them benefits such as insurance (though I would add a fair wage, free health checks, and protection through labour law). Also, we could keep prostitutes from ending up in the morgue. As of now they're easy targets from pimps and customers. Legalizing prostitution can literally save lives.

And -- TRUMP CARD -- we could TAX this billion dollar industry. And tax money can help Support The Troops! Jerry wins!

Unfortunately he doesn't, but this scene demonstrates the brilliance of Boston Legal in that it is very smart and topical, while also being extremely off-beat and silly. Jerry suffers from Asperger's syndrome which gives him various nervous ticks and quirks. In this scene, he argues with his hands planted on his thighs while walking around in circles.

The prosecuting attorney in this scene is played by Gina Torres who played Zoe in the TV show "Firefly".

Boston Legal - Alan Shore argues for Condoms and against Abstinence Only Education

In this scene, from s04e03 "The Chicken and the Leg", Alan Shore (played by James Spader) argues against abstinence only education. His client, a 15 year old girl, was taught abstinence only. When she finally gave in to her biological urges she had unprotected sex. As a result, she contracted HIV. 

In this episode, Alan Shore helps her sue her school because it chose to teach abstinence only education in order to receive federal funding from the Bush Administration.

In his powerful closing argument, Shore argues that the condom is perhaps the most important invention of the last 3000 years, and for schools to discredit the effectiveness of condoms is akin to conspiracy to commit murder. He details how the health of the world depends on condoms, how important they've become since the rise of HIV, how there's no evidence linking abstinence only education to lower teenage pregnancy rates, and how some the the abstinence only literature shamefully and wrongfully compares using a condom to playing Russian roulette.