The Lena Dunham Cycle of Internet Outrage
Here we go again: “I still haven’t had an abortion,” the writer/actor/advocate said recently, “but I wish I had.”
by Megan Garber
Dec 21, 2016
4 minutes
On Tuesday, news outlets from to to to found some celebrity news to share: Lena Dunham, during , had made a comment about abortion that was … not in good taste. The episode, “Choice,” was meant to highlight the idea that, as Dunham put it in , “it’s your body, and you choose the best look for it at every stage of your life.” But Dunham, introducing one of the women who would share her story in the episode, started with a confession: She was a little bit of a hypocrite, she suggested. Telling the story of a visit to a Planned Parenthood in Texas, she recalled how she had wanted tohad an abortion.”
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