Lena Dunham, GIRL!
While hosting last week’s installment of her podcast Women of the Hour, the Girls creator decided to speak up about the sensitive subject of abortion.
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We’ve always applauded the 30-year-old’s strong pro-choice stance.
But in this hour-long episode, the New York native declared during the podcast that she actually wishes she had an abortion at some point in her life, exclaiming:
“Now I can say that I still haven’t had an abortion, but I wish I had.”
Now, if you’re wondering what on earth would inspire Miz Dunham to regret never undergoing such a traumatizing decision and subsequent medical procedure, she remembered a past trip to a Texas Planned Parenthood.
She recalled a girl had asked the actress to open up about her own experience with abortion, and Lena reflected on her reaction at the time, saying:
“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.”
Lena then recognized she was subconsciously enforcing the negative stigma surrounding the procedure, adding:
“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.”
While it’s good the celeb was able to be self-aware regarding her reaction, her controversial comment completely negated that.
And people on Twitter are GOING IN. Ch-ch-check out the reactions (below):
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