In reviewing 4 Monthes, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the new film about a woman trying to get an illegal abortion in Ceausescu’s Romania, Hoberman nails Waitress, Knocked Up, & Juno as movies which present women as being without agency, as being fated to give birth after unwanted pregnancies. Acts of “God,” you might say, or “nature,” or in Waitress, brutal spouses. The endless drumming from America’s Taliban, who use the Orwellian phrase “pro-life” to describe their fundamentalist/misogynistic/anti-sex/anti-contraception agenda, has mostly drowned out the reasons why reproductive freedom is such a touchstone for women’s liberation. But not all of us have forgotten, and as cute as Ellen Page is, I’m not buying the sugarcoated fantasies of the patriarchs, fascists, fetus-fetishists, and priest-mullahs. The dictatorship of "God/nature/men" looks like this: half a million Romanian women are estimated to have died from botched abortions between 1966-89, and the infamous orphanages were overflowing hellholes.