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Lena Dunham Faces Backlash for Saying She Wishes She’d Had an Abortion
people ^ | December 21, 2016 | Char Adams

Posted on 12/21/2016 2:40:14 PM PST by Morgana

Lena Dunham stirred up controversy during a recent episode of her podcast by saying she wishes she’d had an abortion.

While hosting Women of the Hour, the Girls creator recalled a visit to a Texas Planned Parenthood years ago, during which a girl asked her to share her experience with abortion.

“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,”recalled Dunham, 30.

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

(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abortion; backlash; dopeydems; lenadunham; postabortivewomen; prolife
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1 posted on 12/21/2016 2:40:14 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

pretty good writer, very bad politician


2 posted on 12/21/2016 2:41:19 PM PST by babble-on
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To: Morgana

That broad is a walking-talking abortion already!


3 posted on 12/21/2016 2:41:37 PM PST by MagUSNRET
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To: Morgana

Ignore the ignorant.


4 posted on 12/21/2016 2:42:11 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

She wanted attention.

Now she’s complaining that she got it.

Typical feminist.


5 posted on 12/21/2016 2:43:02 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Morgana

Apparently this is what it takes.


6 posted on 12/21/2016 2:43:05 PM PST by Democrats hate too much
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To: Morgana
Too bad your mother didn't have an abortion, you fat, nasty skank.


7 posted on 12/21/2016 2:43:32 PM PST by Viking2002 (My attitude in your rear view mirror may be bigger than it appears......)
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To: Morgana

It’s too bad her mother didn’t have one.


8 posted on 12/21/2016 2:43:35 PM PST by taillightchaser (American media--public enemy #1)
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To: Morgana

Maybe her mother does too.................


9 posted on 12/21/2016 2:43:58 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: taillightchaser

GMTA!...................


10 posted on 12/21/2016 2:44:20 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Morgana

But,,,,,,,, does she wish she was aborted?


11 posted on 12/21/2016 2:44:44 PM PST by umgud (ban all infidelaphobics)
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To: Morgana

I would rather her mother have had an abortion than for her to have had one.


12 posted on 12/21/2016 2:45:47 PM PST by sipow
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To: taillightchaser

That would merely add to her mother’s sins; Laurie Simmons is a bad enough person as is.

What should have happened was Lena and her sister going to be adopted by normal parents instead of those perverts that begot them.


13 posted on 12/21/2016 2:46:17 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Morgana

I saw this earlier today:

Lena Dunham apologizes for saying she wishes she’d had an abortion

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lena-dunham-apologizes-for-saying-she-wishes-shed-had-an-abortion/

She’s probably lieing but submitted to the pressure.


14 posted on 12/21/2016 2:47:16 PM PST by McGruff
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To: Morgana

Who out there is actually a fan of this woman? Her humor is stupid, her outlook on things is all negative, she is over-sexed, her show was lame, at best.

Like Tina Fey and Amy Pohler, she is someone only a millennial would get.


15 posted on 12/21/2016 2:48:00 PM PST by Angels27
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To: babble-on

I’m pretty sure she can get one at any time, she always looks pregnant.


16 posted on 12/21/2016 2:48:42 PM PST by RightInTheMain
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To: Morgana

...so does her mother


17 posted on 12/21/2016 2:49:11 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: McGruff
I think Dunham apologized because her agent, the production company that produces Girls and HBO put pressure on her to apologize.
18 posted on 12/21/2016 2:49:40 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: babble-on

The time for saying asshole things in a clever way has ended.


19 posted on 12/21/2016 2:49:47 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Morgana

the woman operates under the mistaken notion that people care what she thinks or what her body looks like. If she has any acting talent, why not keep her clothes and mouth zipped and just show everyone what she can do?

When they get around to putting pictures in the dictionary under “lost generation”, I suspect hers will be there. It’s kinda sad, really.


20 posted on 12/21/2016 2:49:52 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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