Unsurprisingly, from the woman who made up a rape charge and self-confessed to sexually assaulting her young sister, Lena Dunham has stepped into it again with the sick confession that she wishes she could have had an abortion.
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In her latest podcast, Dunham rails about the “stigma” of abortion:
“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.”
To rid herself of this “stigma”,
Dunham concluded: “Now I can say that I still haven’t had an abortion, but I wish I had.”
Reaction was strong and pointed against Dunham’s sick comment:
I guarantee you @lenadunham there are a lot more women who had abortions who regret it than who wish they paid someone to abort their child! https://t.co/ceetTIfU2g
— tn halfbreed (@tnhalfbreed) December 19, 2016