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Motivated by a real story, the movie explores the costs of teen
pregnancy with a story of a fictional "pregnancy pact" set against the backdrop of actual news reports about teen pregnancy coming June 2008. Sidney Bloom/Thora Birch, an online journalist, returns to her hometown to check out the sudden spike in teenage pregnancies at her old high school. Almost immediately, Sidney Bloom comes up against Lorraine Dougan/Nancy Travis, the head of the local conservative values group and mother of Sara, a newly pregnant 15-year-old.
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Meanwhile, the school nurse (Camryn Manheim) attempts to convince the school to give contraception to students to address the
pregnancy epidemic but is met with great resistance from the school and community. As the number of pregnant girls increases to 18, a media firestorm erupts when Time Magazine mentions that the rise in the quantity of pregnancies at the school is the result of a "
pregnancy pact" As the mystery unfolds about whether or not "the
pregnancy pact" is true, Sidney soon finds out that all of the attention is disguising the much larger issues that are at the core of the story.
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