Juno – took G to see it with her friend – deserves its Oscar noms

Have not been to movie at theater probably in a year

Went to 6 in December and January – on a roll

Daughter home from college – margin in my life now – great combo

Two 16 year old girls – big barrel of popcorn

Friend got in a wreck on the way to meet us

So very much a 16 year old experience!

Watching a 16 year old girl who is bored – decide to have sex with a friend

Turns up pregnant

Struggles to tell friend, then hilarious scene as she tells her dad and stepmom

Review on my blog

Figures she is gonna have abortion

Goes to clinic – one Asian friend picketing that morning

All” God's children should be borned

Goes into clinic – receptionist Goth, body piercings, tattoos, not paying attention

So Juno goes running out – back by her Asian friend from school

And decides to give birth to the baby

rest of movie about finding the adoptive parents, how that becomes a disaster

And 16 year old girl's navigation of decision to have a child, place it with a woman unable to conceive

But here is what is amazing

Saw this, rented Knocked Up, went to Noelle – all had subtle tones that life is important, that babies are humans – pro-life in understated ways

Hollywood has actually produced a bunch of pro-life stuff of late



Stunning when you get to thinking about it

And they all show the personal side

As pastor, this is side I saw

Not so much the picketing of clinics, and the lobbying for legislation

But the deeply personal side – women struggling to make decisions

Women facing major life choices – unexpected intrudes into reality

35th anniversary this week of Roe V Wade

To me, a more personal subject

Raw, emotional, real – real life and faith

60+ % for women in early 20's who already have a child – that is the figure I do not get

Have you had an abortion? What was it like? No judgment here

Why did you make that decision? Was it right? Still thinking about it?

Courage to call and share



Bella, Scrubs CLIP

Sex and the City CLIP



What might have kept you from doing it – talked you out of it?

D – children playing in the yard – one is missing – abortion decision comes back in powerful way 15 years later

Phil – National trust to pay for birth of kids to be placed for adoption with folks unable to have child of own

80% of abortions for women who are unmarried

Cardinal Rigali – must not, cannot, will not stand – incompatible with human dignity

17% to teens 50% to 25+ 33% to 20-24

Pregnancy Resource Centers on web

40 Days of Life