Television Review: A Teenage Pregnancy, Packaged as a Prime-Time Cautionary Tale
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| Jezebel found this 7/1/2008 on www.nytimes.com [flag] |
This cautionary series, which begins Tuesday on ABC Family, woodenly follows the trials of a 15-year-old named Amy, a good student and dutiful daughter who becomes pregnant the first time she has sex. >
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Writer Blames Second Wave Feminists For Failing To Prevent Teen Pregnancy [Knocked Up]
Published 7/1/2008 by Jessica at Jezebel
... , the creator of The Secret Life of an American Teenager , tells Reuters , "I don't have anything to say about the issue of teen pregnancy…I'm just telling a story about a girl who happens to get pregnant." That's the most patently idiotic thing I've heard all week. Especially since the New York Times review of the show points out that when the heroine of Secret Life discovers that she is pregnant, "Her friends tell her she has options, but abortion is apparently not one of them; that choice is dismissed right away in horrified tones." (Sound ...
