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Actress Lena Dunham: ‘I Haven’t Had an Abortion, But Wish I Had’
Life News ^ | December 19, 2016 | Katie Yoder

Posted on 12/19/2016 2:53:15 PM PST by Morgana

Actress and producer Lena Dunham is setting yet another precedent for abortion-obsessed Hollywood: wishing for the opportunity to have had an abortion.

On Thursday, Dunham released the latest episode of her Women of the Hour podcast titled “Choice.” Dunham called her audio show a “safe space” for her audience to think about issues like abortion. Abortion as she saw it, that is.

“I’m a pro-choice woman,” Dunham admitted from the beginning. She credited her mother for her stance: “From an early age, she taught my younger sibling and me to say ‘anti-choice’ instead of ‘pro-life’ because she wanted to make sure that we knew that everyone is pro-life. Some people are anti-choice.”

But in her abortion campaign, Dunham not only saw herself combating “anti-choice” citizens, but also fighting a general “cultural stigma."

“Something I’ve thought about a lot is the fact that there is stigma around abortion,” she complained. “We all know that there’s cultural stigma, it’s hard to put an abortion on network TV.”

As a show writer and producer of HBO’s Girls, Dunham sure has done a poor job of watching TV. Just last year, ABC’s Scandal showed an abortion scene to the tune of “Silent Night,” and this year, shows like Jane the Virgin, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and You’re the Worst also highlighted abortion. Even Gilmore Girls is teasing abortion plotlines yet to come.

But as far as stigma, Dunham saw herself as a part of the problem.

“I always thought that I myself didn’t stigmatize abortion. I’m a – uh abortion rights activist, it’s a huge part of who I am,” she prefaced. She then told the story of how she once tried to distance herself from abortion:

But one day, when I was visiting a Planned Parenthood in Texas a few years ago, a young girl walked up to me and asked me if I’d like to be a part of her project in which women share their stories of abortions. I sort of jumped. ‘I haven’t had an abortion,’ I told her. I wanted to make it really clear to her that as much as I was going out and fighting for other women’s options, I myself had never had an abortion.

“And I realized then that even I was carrying within myself stigma around this issue,” Dunham continued. “Even I, the woman who cares as much as anybody about a woman’s right to choose, felt it was important that people know I was unblemished in this department.”

In the end, her mother and her friends’ abortions persuaded her to change.

“So many people I love – my mother, my best friends – have had to have abortions for all kinds of reasons,” Dunham said. “I feel so proud of them for their bravery, for their self-knowledge, and it was a really important moment for me then to realize I had internalized some of what society was throwing at us and I had to put it in the garbage.”

To do that, Dunham concluded: “Now I can say that I still haven’t had an abortion, but I wish I had.”

This isn’t the first time Lena Duham has advertised abortion. Her HBO show has showcased characters casually mentioning abortion (“I can’t go for a run because I had an abortion”). And, outside of Girls, Dunham loves inserting abortion into media projects, including:

Joking about aborting the royal baby Directing a music video with an “abortion dog" Pushing NBC to air ads for Obvious Child, an “abortion romantic comedy” Deeming After Tiller (film empathizing with late-term abortionists) a “beautiful, sensitively made film”

Dunham also boasts strong ties to Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider. In the past, she has plugged the abortion giant while hosting SNL and even publicized a “special partnership” with Planned Parenthood during a book tour.

Just this year, Dunham wished Planned Parenthood (“every woman’s main bitch”) a happy 100th anniversary. She also defended the organization and gushed over its president Cecile Richards following the Center for Medical Progress videos last year exposing Planned Parenthood’s harvesting of aborted baby parts. For its part, Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report heralded Dunham as its media partner.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abortion; lenadunham; prolife
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To: Morgana

Keep humping islam and you will.


41 posted on 12/19/2016 3:15:02 PM PST by soycd
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To: lacrew

Of profoundly ugly girls in my wayward days of High School I would likely have heard this expression as she waddled by the group I hung with:

“Ugh. I wouldn’t _ _ _ _ her with your _ _ _ _.”


42 posted on 12/19/2016 3:18:37 PM PST by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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To: glasseye

She could go for the turkey baster.


43 posted on 12/19/2016 3:18:45 PM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Morgana
To do that, Dunham concluded: “Now I can say that I still haven’t had an abortion, but I wish I had.”

But I bet she doesn't wish her mother had.

44 posted on 12/19/2016 3:20:01 PM PST by VRWCmember
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To: Ditter

The problem is that she’ll get the crazy idea and want to have “a family” with her partner.

The sad truth is that maybe something must have happened to her as a child. Because people like her are mixed up in more ways than one. And a person dare not mention child abuse as a possible cause for homosexuality.


45 posted on 12/19/2016 3:20:10 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: Morgana

I wish her mother had.


46 posted on 12/19/2016 3:20:59 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: Morgana

Fake News, - celebratty opinion


47 posted on 12/19/2016 3:21:55 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Morgana

That would require you to be found attractive enough by a make for sex. From what I can tell of you, that ain’t happening.


48 posted on 12/19/2016 3:22:02 PM PST by Finatic (Sometimes I think it would be nice to just get it on and get it over with. Once and for all.)
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To: Morgana

‘I Haven’t Had an Abortion, But Wish I Had’

Many wish YOUR MOTHER HAD !!!


49 posted on 12/19/2016 3:22:24 PM PST by litehaus (A memory toooo long)
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To: Morgana

“To do that, Dunham concluded: ‘Now I can say that I still haven’t had an abortion, but I wish I had.’”

Dunham, you are an evil bitch for wishing to have killed a child. I’ll pray for you.


50 posted on 12/19/2016 3:23:33 PM PST by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: Morgana

Most everyone else on the planet wishes her mother thought the way she does.


51 posted on 12/19/2016 3:24:32 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast ("Now it's up to the American people to deliver justice")
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To: forgotten man

No abortion because sex with Lena causes an instant gag reaction resulting in immediate withering of a certain vital tool.


52 posted on 12/19/2016 3:26:49 PM PST by PJ-Comix (Glenn Beck is one Blood Bucket shy of the Funny Farm)
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To: Morgana

But she couldn’t find a man who would have sex with her.


53 posted on 12/19/2016 3:39:11 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: All

Wow...what an evil piece of zhit..


54 posted on 12/19/2016 3:44:01 PM PST by Maverick68
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To: ZULU

I wish your mother had. Creep.
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According to Lena Dunham, not the most credible story teller, her mother did have an abortion - just not of her. It must hurt a child to know that her parents killed a baby, a sister or brother - that their love is conditional and dependent on their convenience.


55 posted on 12/19/2016 3:44:12 PM PST by heartwood (If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
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To: lacrew

I told that quit smoking to gain the benefits to my Dr. during my last physical. Some people just have no sense of humor.


56 posted on 12/19/2016 3:45:40 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Morgana

Now why would Miss Dunham think there is a “social stigma” to murdering a defenseless child ???


57 posted on 12/19/2016 3:46:00 PM PST by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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To: Morgana

you didn’t just say that!? Rofl


58 posted on 12/19/2016 3:46:43 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Morgana

... and they have the nerve to call us “deplorable.”


59 posted on 12/19/2016 3:50:34 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: LeonardFMason

Lena Dunham.....Where boners go to die.


60 posted on 12/19/2016 3:51:38 PM PST by Palio di Siena
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