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Pregnancy Denied, Pregnancy Rejected in 'Stephanie Daley'

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This article offers a reading of Hilary Broughers film Stephanie Daley (2006), in which a teen is accused of murdering her newborn (neonaticide). Brougher depicts a phenomenology of unwanted pregnancy and an example of therapeutic jurisprudence. Part One examines Broughers treatment of the shadow side of pregnancy, and highlights barriers to the empathetic treatment of neonaticide. Part Two emphasizes the process of therapeutic jurisprudence as experienced by the two main characters. Broughers film provides a social narrative and phenomenology that may influence laws and legal responses and enlarge social understanding of unwanted pregnancy.