The Juno Effect and Abortion

The Juno Effect and Abortion

Anyone who has seen the Oscar-winning film, Juno, couldn’t help but wonder if it could be a vehicle that encourages teen pregnancy. After all, the title character who is all of 16 does accidentally get pregnant and doesn’t seem to be very disturbed by her condition and it all ends relatively happily.

Thus was born the much-dreaded “Juno Effect,” the conclusion of impressionable teens that, “That woman is in the movies (or on TV, or in a magazine)! That makes her glamorous! Maybe if I get knocked up, I’ll be glamorous, too!”

Said effect never really occurred since data shows that teen pregnancy, despite the efforts of Planned Parenthood, actually showed a downtick of 2% between 2007, the Juno year, and 2008, what could be termed the Bristol Palin year.

Liberal recorders of pop culture, such as Mona Ackerman, Time magazine, and Linda Hirshman, jumped all over the idea that a movie could or would inspire teen pregnancies, an inspiration that never existed, and predicted catastrophic rates of impregnated teenagers: http://bit.ly/8XUQaA

There’s something about liberals which makes them always think . . .
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