Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Actress Lena Dunham: Lambasted For 'distasteful' abortion joke..Her Comment Will Shock You.


The creator and star of comedy TV series Girls said she did not intend to "trivialise" terminating a pregnancy following comments she made during her Women Of The Hour podcast.Dunham, 30, had recalled an incident at a Planned Parenthood meeting in Texas when she was asked to share a story about her own abortion.She told listeners that she had never gone through the procedure, before adding: "But I wish I had."
Her comments prompted widespread accusations that she had trivialised abortion.She was treating a termination "like getting your appendix removed", said one Christian organisation.Right To Life of Central California said the remarks were "inflammatory and unhelpful".
John Gerardi, executive director, added: "Even if you accept the argument that women have a right to obtain access to abortions, we're still talking about another living human being."Even for pro-choice women, it's one of the worst and most difficult decisions of their lives."It seems Lena Dunham wants to treat abortions like getting your appendix removed."In a post on Instagram alongside a picture featuring the word "Choice", Dunham said she was "proud" of the women who took part in the podcast which focused on the issue of abortion."I truly hope a distasteful joke on my part won't diminish the amazing work of all the women who participated," she wrote."I would never, ever intentionally trivialise the emotional and physical challenges of terminating a pregnancy. My only goal is to increase awareness and decrease stigma."
 In the podcast, she claimed it was a "stigma" that she hadn't had an abortion.She said, "So many people I love - my mother, my best friends - have had to have abortions for all kinds of reasons. I feel so proud of them for their bravery, for their self-knowledge, and it was a really important moment for me then that I had internalised some of what society was throwing at us and I had to put it in the garbage."Now I can say I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had."


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