Marg Helgenberger is an unbearably smug moral preener who likes to go around wearing anti-war slogans on her t-shirt, and being photographed while doing it. Both she and her husband, new SAG president Alan Rosenberg (a character actor who's had a mostly unimpressive career), are highly political Hollywood leftists. Rosenberg won election on a platform which promised to become more confrontational with film company management. He represents the most leftwing faction of SAG membership.
The CSI writers and Helgenberger contrived a scene between Helgenberger and a woman who runs an organization committed to "rescue" fertilized eggs supposedly hanging around unclaimed in IVF clinics nationwide. The writers put inane and ignorant words in the woman's mouth and the director told her to act mean and stupid. The whole thing was just an insult to thinking people.
One more tidbit that I just picked up about Helgenberger's hubby, Alan Rosenberg, while checking
his bio on IMDB. He was once a Black Panther.
You just can't make this stuff up. This is what Hollywood is, folks.