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Did Top Planned Parenthood Spokeswoman Lena Dunham Lie About Being Raped?
Life News ^ | 12/10/14 | Sarah Zagorski

Posted on 12/10/2014 5:13:03 PM PST by Morgana

Tragically, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization survey, 17.7 million American women have been victims of attempted or completed rape. When a woman is raped, she is violated both physically and emotionally, and the road to recovery is usually fraught with difficulty.

This is why accusing someone of such a crime is a very serious allegation.

In Planned Parenthood spokesperson Lena Dunham’s new book, Just Not that Kind of Girl, she explains in detail how she was date raped in college by a campus conservative named Barry. She described him as a violent man who took advantage of women on a regular basis.

She writes, “There was a story of him punching a girl in the boobs at a party… [and] [M]y friend Melody tells me that once her friend Julia woke up the morning after sex with Barry, and the wall was spattered with blood. Spattered, she said, “like a crime scene.” But he was nice and took her for the morning-after pill and named the baby they weren’t having.”

After Barry (allegedly) raped her, Dunham said she didn’t report the incident because she was in denial that it actually happened. Unfortunately, this happens on a regular basis; women who’ve been raped often block it out or justify the crime. In fact, 60% of sexual assaults are never reported to the police.

Dunham admits that when the rape occurred she was high on Xanax and cocaine but says she never consented to sex. Dunham said this about the date rape, “…I know that at no moment did I consent to being handled that way. I never gave him permission to be rough, to stick himself inside me without a barrier between us. I never gave him permission.”

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However, according to Breitbarts’ John Nolte, Lena Dunham could have made the whole thing up. After some investigating, Nolte discovered that there was a man named Barry who went to Oberlin College but he claims he never even met Dunham. Nolte explains more, “Dunham says Barry worked at the campus library, and even names the radio talk show he hosted. To be sure we get the point, on three occasions Dunham tells her readers that her attacker is a Republican or a conservative, and a prominent one at that — no less than the ‘campus’s resident conservative.

We immediately found that there indeed was a prominent Republican named Barry who attended Oberlin at the time in question.”

Additionally, Dunham describes Barry as having a big mustache, who wore purple cowboy boots and having a deep voice; but there is simply no one who went to Oberlin that fits that description. Now, Random House, the publishing company that gave Dunham a $3.7 million advance for her book, has agreed to pay all the legal fees for the real Barry, whose reputation has been smeared since the false allegation. They’ve also released a statement that says Dunham used “Barry” as a pseudonym.

The problem is in a different section of her book Dunham acknowledges that she uses a changes a name for privacy purposes yet for Barry she doesn’t. Lawyer Eugene Volokh explains the discrepancy with the Washington Post. He said, “Early in the book, when she mentions a boyfriend of hers and labels him Jonah, she adds a footnote: ‘Name changed to protect the truly innocent.’ Reasonable readers, it seems to me, reading the rest of the memoir, would assume that ‘Barry’ — whose name wasn’t accompanied with any such footnote — was actually named Barry. Even if not all readers would so conclude, many would, and quite understandably so.”

Furthermore, as the National Review asks, what are the odds that the most prominent Republican on the Oberlin campus during Dunham’s time there was a man named Barry? The odds are pretty slim, especially since “Barry” is not a common name and is not even among the 100 most common men’s names in the United States.

Although no one will ever know the truth behind Dunham’s story it’s important to note that pro-abortion supporters, especially Planned Parenthood, have defended Dunham at every turn. As LifeNews previously reported, in Dunham’s memoir she also shares about sexually experimenting with her baby sister but apparently even that doesn’t faze the abortion giant. Dunham fits their perfect narrative — she is radically pro-abortion, promotes carefree and casual sex and consistently bashes pro-lifers.

To find out more about Nolte’s investigation, click here.


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: abortion; falserape; plannedparenthood; prolife
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Does a bear **** in the woods?
1 posted on 12/10/2014 5:13:04 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Of course she lied.

Dunham surely spent her last life as a bear searching for a place to defecate.


2 posted on 12/10/2014 5:15:11 PM PST by turfmann
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To: Morgana

Probably, but unless she admits it, one cannot prove a negative.


3 posted on 12/10/2014 5:20:14 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Morgana
Liar liar pants on fire, oops, she doesn't wear any!


4 posted on 12/10/2014 5:20:26 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, N recruitot a cut Matter of Opinion)
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To: Morgana

But all of Cosby’s accusers are telling the truth.

Years later, with no evidence, while admitting they went to be alone with him voluntarily.

Yeah, right.


5 posted on 12/10/2014 5:21:53 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Them apples don’t seem to have helped, Miz Dunham. You’re still butt nekkid and dumb as a stump.


6 posted on 12/10/2014 5:24:06 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Morgana

Dunham
Barry
Julia

hmmmm...


7 posted on 12/10/2014 5:24:09 PM PST by digger48
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To: EEGator

>> one cannot prove a negative.

No, but wouldn’t it be fun to see a skilled and aggressive lawyer give it a shot in a series of lengthy, grueling depositions? :-)


8 posted on 12/10/2014 5:24:17 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed is his demon)
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To: Morgana

Ted Cruz Was 25 Years Ahead Of His Time On Fighting Campus Rape
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3235050/posts


9 posted on 12/10/2014 5:24:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: turfmann
Sounds like she lied for the same reason many acts of campus vandalism such as swastikas, burning crosses, Confederate flags, strips of bacon found in moslem foot baths, the n-word sprawled on campus buildings, etc. turn out to be staged, if not outright hoaxes. To evoke a "serious" discussions about how all straight men are pigs campus rape and create a "teachable moment"
10 posted on 12/10/2014 5:31:08 PM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Morgana

I wouldn’t know if she lied about being raped or not. However, since she is a liberal I believe she will lie about anything when she thinks there is a need to do so. Thus I think it is highly probable she is lying.


11 posted on 12/10/2014 5:31:44 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: digger48

Yeah, I caught it too.

CC


12 posted on 12/10/2014 5:33:08 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Tagline Constructon zone- low humor ahead)
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To: Nervous Tick

Absolutely.


13 posted on 12/10/2014 5:33:27 PM PST by EEGator
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

14 posted on 12/10/2014 5:35:22 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Morgana

Lena Dunham: Unattractive to the point of repulsion.


15 posted on 12/10/2014 5:35:32 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: EEGator

thank you for that! LMAO!!


16 posted on 12/10/2014 5:38:49 PM PST by apostoli (Time to thump the nose of the parrots.)
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To: Nuc 1.1
> I wouldn’t know if she lied about being raped or not. However, since she is a liberal I believe she will lie about anything when she thinks there is a need to do so. Thus I think it is highly probable she is lying.

Highly likely...


17 posted on 12/10/2014 5:39:04 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Nuc 1.1
I wouldn’t know if she lied about being raped or not. However, since she is a liberal I believe she will lie about anything when she thinks there is a need to do so. Thus I think it is highly probable she is lying.

Well-reasoned, Nuc 1.1

Everything about socialism is sham and affectation. - 23.11 Ch23; Evil; Economic Harmonies; Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850

18 posted on 12/10/2014 5:42:01 PM PST by PGalt
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To: jsanders2001

The picture says it all....


19 posted on 12/10/2014 5:42:40 PM PST by ptsal (Repubicans swallowing more kool-aide from Rove & Kristol)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
Hey guys...be honest...can *any* of you imagine yourself being *that* desperate? Even if she was giving it up willingly?
20 posted on 12/10/2014 5:42:57 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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