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Will wonders never cease?

January 11, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

This blogger with Canoe.ca talks about Juno, the new movie whereby a pregnant teenager has the baby in stark contrast to Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a movie I grew up with.

He says:

All I can say to that is that “choice” implies making a decision based on a set of options…

Options. I can recall thinking in my teens and even 20s that I’d rather be dead than unexpectedly pregnant. I meant it. In hindsight, that wasn’t the most mature response, but there you have it. Would have been great to have some mentors putting things in long term perspective.

But a movie that shows there is life for the mother, forget about the baby, after an unplanned pregnancy, is a good thing. And another good thing is to have a Canoe blogger writing about it.

Even if he is a man, and should therefore, by conventional wisdom, sit silently and quietly reflect on how abortion has nothing to do with him.

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Raji adds:

Another Juno article in the NYT on January 13: “Sex and the Teenage Girl”

I liked her comments, especially “….Nor is an abortion psychologically or physically simple…”

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