Synopsis of The Pregnancy Pact Story Movie Starring Thora Birch
The Pregnancy Pact Synopsis: Inspired by a true story, the film 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 from June 2008. Sidney Bloom (Thora Birch), an on-line magazine journalist, returns to her hometown to investigate the sudden spike in the pregnancy pact story teenage pregnancies at her old high school.
Almost immediately, she 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. Meanwhile, the school nurse (Camryn Manheim) tries to convince the school to provide contraception to students to address thepregnancy epidemic but is met with great opposition from the school and community.
As the number of pregnant girls climbs to 18, a media firestorm erupts when Time Magazine reports that the rise in the number of pregnancies at theschool is the result of a “pregnancy pact“. As the mystery unfolds about whether or not “the pact” is real, Sidney soon realizes that all of the attention is disguising the much larger issues that are at the core of the story.
The Pregnancy Pact stars Camryn Manheim, Nancy Travis, and Thora Birch.You may recall the 2008 ‘pregnancy pact’ scandal involving 17 girls at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts that reportedly agreed to get pregnant at the same time. The high school’s principal, Joseph Sullivan, exposed the story during an interview with TIME magazine claiming the girls planned thepregnancies and planned to raise the children together.