With all the films about unplanned pregnancy this year, 'Juno' is the only one to discuss abortion.
Comment: as a democrat... I find this this reporter's bias embaressing and self serving. now I know why I have graduated away from newsweek and to Foreign Policy. I am pro choice... but I have seen this particular reporter's biased agenda all over the place and its just as plorizing as the repulicans we love to critisize. its enough to make me go partisan.
Comment: as a democrat... I still find this reporter's obvious bend really offensive. I did a short research of her other articles, and I am shocked news week even has her on their staff. She does not represent the party I belong to.... she is so biased and close minded. I am shocked Newsweek has her on here. now I know why I gradually started reading Foreign Policy and graduated away from this magazine. This reporter is just so biased, .... its embaressing.
Comment: There is one fairly recent film that clearly shows that abortion is sometimes necessary. Although it is not the main plot, ''The "Cider House Rules" from 1999, relates the story of woman who choses to abort the pregancy that resulted from her being raped by her father.
Comment: I ask this question not to be critical but rather to find answers. Why does everything have to be so political?
We are so polarizing in this country. Everything has to be good vs evil, blue vs red, up vs down and in this case pro-life vs pro-choice. I give the directors the benefit of the doubt when they say that they had no agenda. While I understand that many will choose to 'go there,' I can't help but question why?
People need to stop acting like preachers in every corner of society. The vast majority of us have morals (we get it), but for me I keep my politics separate from every single thing in my daily life.
Comment: While I agree that Hollywood does seem to shy away from dealing with the issue of abortion, the fact remains that termination of a pregnancy doesn't make for as interesting a movie plot as an unplanned pregnancy. You can have an entire humorous and/or touching movie about someone adjusting to the idea of suddenly being pregnant. Who would want to see a feature-length movie about someone going through the agonizing and intensely personal decision of whether to terminate a pregnancy? It would have to be pretty dark to be a comedy, and isn't likely to have much action, resolution, or anything else--just a person making a difficult decision. Doesn't sound like something I would pay $10 to see. Regardless of what most people would do in a given situation, enjoyable movies are about people dealing with a situation in a way that creates drama, and propels a story forward. Girl gets pregnant, doesn't have the financial or emotional stability to raise a child, after several days of thinking about it, maybe talking about it to her closest friends, makes an appointment for a consultation, gets her information and books time with a doctor for a procedure, goes back on the appointed day, terminates the pregnancy, tears are shed, and then she tries to move on with her life--that just doesn't sound like a movie.
Comment: After reading the article I immediately thought of a movie where Hollywood's first choice was an abortion.
That would be "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." Jennifer Jason Leigh's character, Stacy finds out she's pregnant after a quickie in the pool house with the school bad boy and makes a beeline to the abortion clinic.
Comment: Another movie that features a sensitively handled abortion scene is "Grace of My Heart", made in 1996, starring Ileana Douglas. Interestingly, it's a period piece also (set in 60s), so it's an illegal abortion, but I think it handles her feelings and decision quite well -- a mom of 1, who's just left her husband who was cheating on her, making the decision that she can't raise 2. She feels the regret of her decision, too. I think it's notable that the two movies we mentioned are both period pieces, as is Vera Drake (although I haven't seen that one).
Comment: Another movie that features a sensitively handled abortion scene is "Grace of My Heart", made in 1996, starring Ileana Douglas. Interestingly, it's a period piece also (set in 60s), so it's an illegal abortion, but I think it handles her feelings and decision quite well -- a mom of 1, who's just left her husband who was cheating on her, making the decision that she can't raise 2. She feels the regret of her decision, too. I think it's notable that the two movies we mentioned are both period pieces, as is Vera Drake (although I haven't seen that one).
Comment: She also ignores a recent Oscar for a movie that was exclusively about abortion and how it should be legal, Cider House Rules in 2000, which is far more recent of a movie than Dirty Dancing. The audience at the Oscars seemed to react pretty strongly in favor of abortion. So while 'Hollywood' businesses might not make pro-choice movies, the actors and writers who are in the industry are seriously pro-legalized-abortion.
Comment: She also ignores a recent Oscar for a movie that was exclusively about abortion and how it should be legal, Cider House Rules in 2000, which is far more recent of a movie than Dirty Dancing. The audience at the Oscars seemed to react pretty strongly in favor of abortion. So while 'Hollywood' businesses might not make pro-choice movies, the actors and writers who are in the industry are seriously pro-legalized-abortion.
Comment: In Coach Carter a girl has an abortion. Thank goodness there's one that will explore the other side.
Comment: The author of ths article mentions the movie "Bella" but obviously has not seen it because the pregnant woman in that movie not only discusses abortion openly, she also goes a clinic to have one. In the end, she changes her mind and does not go through with it. So even the title of this article is inaccurate - Juno is NOT the only movie to discuss abortion this year. Next time, do your research.
Comment: I commend Juno for considering adoption as an option. My view is better education and being alot more supportive of adoption. I believe adoption is the only choice that puts the needs of the baby ahead of the needs of the mother. Hopefully, the mother can then mature emotionally and financially and have a family when she is ready.
Comment: I respect that Juno shows adoption as an answer. Adoption is the only choice that puts the needs of the baby ahead of the needs of the mother. I respect that it is hard to give a baby up, but it allows you to get your life together and possibly have a family when you are in a better position emotionally as well as financially.
Comment: I think that abortion in this movie has nothing to do with pro-life or pro-choice designations. It has everything to do with a teenage girl behaving as rationally as a teenager could, crativly sloving her problem. The film makers illustrate this young girls journey through this, and at least this charater is activly solving her dillmema and dealing rationally with choices and options avalable to her. Abortion was one route to solution for this girl , not because it was an unwanted child, but becuase she realized that she was not ready for parenthood and all the requisite responsibility. Being a teenager, her justification against abortion cleveverly did not delve into the issue with rhetoric. Could it have? Sure. Abortion for her was one option of many, just as it should be.Juno's choice against it should not be blown up into a rallying "I told you so" for all pro- life and conservative minded folk that are intolerant of allowing others to consider maiking life choices that they can't imagine anyone having to make. I feel that most people would agree with them that abortion is not ideal, positive, or lightly chosen. It is however, an importnat right that doctors should have the responsibility and discretion for performing. I applaud this movie for including abortion in the equation, as an option, as it should be. Junos' story ended as it should for her. Every girl who finds herself needing to explore all her options dererves to have all of them available to her.
Comment: Finally, after years of denying what is so obviously true, even Hollywood has come to accept the fact that an unborn child is a life. When you discuss this with pro-choice people, the fact that so many of them "agonize over what to do" tells you that deep down in one's soul even they know that this is more than a "choice". Otherwise, why would it be so difficult to make a decision? If as some would say, it's really no more than a "growth" like a tumor, then the decision would be easy. Think about it, if deep down we really believed it wasn't a life, then there would be no guilty conscience over it.
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