With it’s embrace of out-of-wedlock birth, some questioned whether Juno was really a pro-life movie. The argument was that just because someone didn’t choose abortion doesn’t mean we should be celebrating their choice. Thanks to our modern age, we now face the question of making these girls (in this case, the choice of girls and not women is intentional) the next poster girls for the pro-life movement.
School officials started looking into the matter as early as October after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find out if they were pregnant. By May, several students had returned multiple times to get pregnancy tests, and on hearing the results, “some girls seemed more upset when they weren’t pregnant than when they were,” Sullivan says. All it took was a few simple questions before nearly half the expecting students, none older than 16, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. Then the story got worse. “We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy,” the principal says, shaking his head.
Kathleen Kingsbury, Time Magazine
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