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Updated: Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 1:28am

Ellen Page as teenage statistic ‘Juno’ doesn’t bother you? Honest to blog?

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Published Friday, February 1, 2008
Watching “Juno” is like opening your mailbox to find it overflowing with boxes of your favorite candy. It is sweet, it is thoughtful, and it fills you to the brim with happiness that has less to do with glucose than with the surprise of having received it.
#1 By Maggie B (Unregistered User) 6:09pm on February 1, 2008

I recently read an interview where Diablo Cody, the sceenwriter and ex stripper, was surprised to hear that people thought the film to be anti abortion. She laughed and said that she was absolutely pro-choice and simply needed to get Juno in the same room as Vanessa so her story could proceed and so she created the abortion clinic from hell scene to this end. As a screen writer myself I was a little upset that she was so blase about creating such a dishonest set up. In the film a young asian american girl who can't even pronounce "born" is the only protestor outside the clinic. Not only was this an offensive racial slur but a completely candy coated vision of what women trying to procure an abortion have to go through when they encounter the have to run the gauntlet of vitriol spewed by protestors outside clinics and the danger doctors face everyday.

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