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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: NFHale; ZULU

I can’t say ‘I wish she was aborted’, because that is essentially advocating murder.

‘I wish she were never born’ is one thing, but ‘I wish you were conceived and then murdered’ is another.


21 posted on 12/19/2016 3:00:38 PM PST by lacrew
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To: Morgana

She heard her mom say that, didn’t get it, sounded cool to her so now she’s parroting it.


22 posted on 12/19/2016 3:01:28 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Spruce

My parents told me we are all pro-choice and we choose life.

On a side note, tough to have an abortion if no man in his right mind will touch you.


23 posted on 12/19/2016 3:01:43 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Too. Much. Winning.)
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To: Morgana

Abortions are the Ultimate Bow and Scrape to Moloch


24 posted on 12/19/2016 3:02:06 PM PST by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: Morgana

Too bad you missed by one generation.


25 posted on 12/19/2016 3:02:10 PM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Morgana
I think having an abortion is "meaningful" to outre people like Dunham because more than any other act, it symbolizes that there is no treachery, no indignity they would not commit to further their own interests. And that's their definition of feminism. Women and women first. No limits.

Equality with men? In this sense: Equal hell for equal hubris.

26 posted on 12/19/2016 3:02:20 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Cordially.)
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To: Morgana

She hasn’t fallen into the toilet and been flushed, but I wish she had.


27 posted on 12/19/2016 3:02:38 PM PST by rfp1234 (DinosorosExtinction)
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To: Morgana

The first jackass who post that video of her nasty body dancing should be banned from FR for life.


28 posted on 12/19/2016 3:03:03 PM PST by soupbone1
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To: Morgana

Your mother probably longs for one.


29 posted on 12/19/2016 3:03:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Morgana

Actually, why doesn’t she have herself spayed and take herself out of the gene pool completely. I dare her.

The fewer of her type in the world, the better. She makes false accusations of rape and is full of hate. Her offspring would carry on this trait.


30 posted on 12/19/2016 3:03:41 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345

She is a dyke.


31 posted on 12/19/2016 3:05:01 PM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: lacrew

Rules!!!!

It is Inhumane to your fellow Freepers to post such a horrifying photo without an advance public safety warning!


32 posted on 12/19/2016 3:05:12 PM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: Morgana

Sick, deranged individual.


33 posted on 12/19/2016 3:06:24 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: RooRoobird20

In my defense, I could have posted one with a rear view, but decided against it.


34 posted on 12/19/2016 3:06:33 PM PST by lacrew
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To: Morgana

Every time I see a headline concerning this woman, I don’t want to view it, but I can’t help myself

Like viewing a terrible car crash on the interstate.


35 posted on 12/19/2016 3:08:09 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Morgana

And demographically she’s unlikely to. I grew up and live around the Lena Dunham types, in fact one of the cast members of Girls was the childhood best friend of the bride where my son was the ring bearer. These white, highly-educated types may talk about abortion and feminism and all of the rest, but by and large, they don’t practice what they preach. It’s more “what’s good for thee, but not for me”, as they sell this self-destructive lifestyle to the rubes out there watching and buying into it.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204301404577170733817181646


36 posted on 12/19/2016 3:09:05 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: conservativepoet

It is upping the ante in the virtue signalling war, the liberal equivalent of holier than thou.


37 posted on 12/19/2016 3:10:56 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Morgana

Nothing new here...she is just another insane, irrational, delusional lib / Dem.


38 posted on 12/19/2016 3:11:20 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Morgana

So it seems you actually need to have sex before you might need an abortion.
That explains a lot.


39 posted on 12/19/2016 3:12:45 PM PST by glasseye
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To: Morgana
I can't imagine why not.


40 posted on 12/19/2016 3:14:24 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (WaPo: A Fake News Site by their own admission.)
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