"for Juno, the clinic embodies what she is afraid people will see when they look at her--the set of implications and connotations evoked by the catchphrase "sexually active." Which, based on the way she reacts to the term, seems to her to indicate both sexual promiscuity and the kind of blase attitude about sex and its potential consequences that she chides her best friend for expressing when she first tells her the news. Although Juno often performs that kind of flippancy about her own pregnancy, just as she spends a lot of time denying that sex with Bleeker meant anything to her emotionally, it's fairly clear early on that this doesn't actually reflect her emotions. In other words, what the clinic represents to Juno is lack of commitment--a refusal to take her, her sexuality, and her pregnancy seriously. And for someone with Juno's adolescent intensity--for a kid with her personality at her age, everything that happens to her matters greatly, and every major decision has to be consi