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.
I’ll do the same.
Dunham admitted sexually abusing younger now lesbian sister when the sister was a child.
Maybe that’s why she’s a bitter little witch. Who knows.
It is totally tackless but someone should ask Dunham: “Do you regret the fact that your mother did not abort you? Don’t you think it would have been better if she had?”
Her and her mom’s semantics about anti choice and pro life are really twisted. So they want the have the choice to murder an unborn child but they are not anti life? Amazing- no telling what sort of abuse she suffered as a child at the hands of her mother. This work of the devil is passed on down to the next generation. Sick- she wishes that she had the chance to murder an unborn child because she never did. Murder for murder’s sake. She needs to head to Raqqa, join isis, and become the female? Bulldozer assassin so that she can feel how it is to murder another human being-it’s not too late Lena.
Pro-life means recognizing the choice occurs before the sex, not after.
Lena Dunham is proof that IQs below 50 are not automatically fatal.
Wish your mother had...
Evil.
It is Inhumane to your fellow Freepers to post such a horrifying photo without an advance public safety warning!
I propose the following: 
(See down thread for my emergency antidote eye bleach.)
There. Headline fixed.
What is wrong with these freak shows of humanity????
Seems like even sperm don’t like her!
When you have an abortion, you kill another human being.....a boy, a girl, maybe twins......I can’t see how anyone, unless to save the mother’s life, can justify that.
I was persistent with it over a period of years...it really annoyed the kids :). Just keep pushing it with your doctor until he sees the humor.
I’m hearing from multiple sources it was William Greene out of CD34 that includes Brownsville and Corpus Christie. Not verified, but good sources.
if its no big deal and its just like any other surgery, lets show ultrasounds and show abortions on tv. let it be shown like every other graphic surgery, and we can show actual abortions and parts and all of it.
i mean when you remove tumors people do not bury them and have funerals for their tumors.
ifyou want to mainstream it’libtard socialist babykillers, then g-d it lets mainstream it. so many more people will turn off to it. no one agrees moms are a special class that can murder another person at their mercy.
this entire mess is grossly sickening. i can understand howmi can feel bad for folks going to hell, but i can also understand how it will not bother us and we wont even have time to remember them anymore,’either.
“She credited her mother for her stance:”
I was fully expecting to read that her mother spent Dunham’s childhood telling her she wished she’d had an abortion.. I thought that would have explained how totally f’d up she is.
having an abortion for a lib socialist woman is having bona fides like aids if you are a sodomite. i can imagine some libs have gotten pregnant to have abortions. many lesbian women have consciously chosen to be lesbian because they cited feminism as to why they were doing it. i dont doubt women could have abortions just to get ‘cred’ for being pro-abort.
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