UPDATE (12/20/16): Internet denizens have not taken kindly to Lena Dunham’s bizarre declaration that she wishes she’d had an abortion. As of this evening, Ms. Dunham was trending on Facebook and Twitter:
Lena Dunham: "I wish I'd had an abortion."
Hillary choosing to have muppets like this represent her is a large part of why she lost.
— Brittany Pettibone (@BrittPettibone) December 20, 2016
Finally something both liberals and conservatives can agree on.
We're all sick of Lena Dunham.
— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) December 20, 2016
It's time to pay Lena Dunham to support the Trump agenda so everyone else will turn against it.
— Kashana (@kashanacauley) December 20, 2016
the only thing that brings the right & left together is their dislike of Lena Dunham & I think that's beautiful
— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) December 20, 2016
To this day I'll never understand why @lenadunham is famous or liked. She molested her sister and says shit like this. pic.twitter.com/jQwD7qnKQx
— Blaire White š (@MsBlaireWhite) December 20, 2016
Lena Dunham: 'I wish' I had an abortion, despite never having one
Me: pic.twitter.com/pjwBXNo8jb— NANA JIBRIL šš³ļøāš (@girlswithtoys) December 20, 2016
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Woke celebrity Lena DunhamĀ says she feels guilty about being a pro-choice activist who has never had an abortion.
“I still havenāt had an abortion, but I wish I had,” Dunham said in the most recent episode of her Women of the Hour podcast, titled “Choice.”Ā Having an abortion would give her a lot more “cred” in the movement, or something.
Dunham has described her podcast as a “safe space” for people to be woke and talk about issues like abortion. In the latest episode, she discussed being taught by her mother at an early age to refer to abortion opponents as “anti-choice” rather than “pro-life,” and took aim at the “cultural stigma” surrounding abortion.
“Something Iāve thought about a lot is the fact that there is stigma around abortion,” Dunham said. “We all know that thereās cultural stigma, itās hard to put an abortion on network TV.”
The celebrity activist even saw herself to blame for perpetuating the stigma, for being eager to tell people in the past that she has never had an 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 Iād like to be a part of her project in which women share their stories of abortions. I sort of jumped. āI havenāt had an abortion,ā I told her. I wanted to make it really clear to her that as much as I was going out and fighting for other womenās options, I myself had never had an abortion.
DunhamĀ cited this as an example of how she was “carrying within myself stigma around this issue” because she had “felt it was important that people know I was unblemished in this department,” unlike her friends and relatives who have had abortions in the past.
“So many people I love ā my mother, my best friends ā 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.”
Dunham said the experience had taught her an important life lesson: “Now I can say that I still havenāt had an abortion, but I wish I had.”
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