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Lena Dunham: “I still haven’t had an abortion, but I wish I had”
Hotair ^ | December 20, 2016 | Allahpundit

Posted on 12/20/2016 8:24:40 AM PST by C19fan

Via the Blaze, a clip that raises an important question: Can one be properly “woke” without having killed a baby?

Skip to 13:30 below. Someone whose cultural cachet doesn’t depend on being a young feminist and provocateur would have turned this into a more thoughtful bit of commentary. She’s a loud and proud abortion warrior, she says, but she’s uncomfortable (or used to be uncomfortable) with people thinking that she might have had an abortion herself. How come? Had she unconsciously adopted an unjust social stigma against abortion, as she assumes, or was she experiencing a moral intuition about abortion writ large at the thought of killing her own child? If we’re going with the stigma theory, are there any stigmas within her own in-groups that might encourage a woman to champion abortion even if she’s reluctant to do so? If so, how does that square with “choice” as the supreme virtue? Lots of fodder here for a challenging meditation on this subject. Instead she reacted in the most grotesque (yet provocative, of course) way: She wishes she had killed a baby of her own so that she wouldn’t feel the tug of that damnable stigma. It’s a perfect expression of pro-choice politics, treating a defenseless life as an instrument to express the depth of your allegiance to the tribe. There’s so much Social Progress that could be made if not for our atavistic squeamishness about blood.

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To: atc23

I *suppose* she has enough money to purchase the services of a pajama boy somewhere. Chris Supron maybe?


21 posted on 12/20/2016 9:02:35 AM PST by Borderline
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To: C19fan

Oh to have a time machine.. then anyone that had an abortion...go back and abort them before they’ve had their abortion


22 posted on 12/20/2016 9:08:03 AM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: C19fan

I think she is asked to many questions.I don’t really know but if she has any children I bet the answer I wished I had raises a red flag


23 posted on 12/20/2016 9:08:51 AM PST by wild74
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To: C19fan

Hey, Lena, the world would be a better place if your mother had had an abortion.


24 posted on 12/20/2016 9:25:24 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: C19fan

Does she also wish that her mother had an abortion?


25 posted on 12/20/2016 9:52:26 AM PST by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: C19fan

Your mother regrets not having an abortion to Lena.

But seriously. These people are sick. It isn’t even about “right to chose.” It is POWER. The power over human life. They want to KILL for killing sake.


26 posted on 12/20/2016 10:57:26 AM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: C19fan

Something is wrong with a woman who has not done anything but wishes that she had murdered her child. Abortion is murder.


27 posted on 12/20/2016 3:12:17 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent (EEe)
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To: C19fan

There ain’t enough tequila to get a fella drunk enough to get her pregnant.


28 posted on 12/20/2016 6:47:45 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I thank God, Broom Hillary was stopped. Now, moving on, I pray for Trump.)
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