Lena Dunham apologizes for ‘distasteful joke’ about abortion

Lena Dunham has apologized for what she said recently about wishing she had an abortion.

The actress ruffled some feathers when she made the comment on her Women of the Hour podcast and the remark quickly led to backlash on social media.

After feeling the wrath of Twitter, the Girls star took to Instagram with a lengthy post to offer a mea culpa for what she said and called it a "distasteful joke" that "didn't translate."

My latest podcast episode was meant to tell a multifaceted story about reproductive choice in America, to explain the many reasons women do or don't choose to have children and what bodily autonomy really means. I'm so proud of the medley of voices in the episode. I truly hope a distasteful joke on my part won't diminish the amazing work of all the women who participated. My words were spoken from a sort of "delusional girl" persona I often inhabit, a girl who careens between wisdom and ignorance (that's what my TV show is too) and it didn't translate. That's my fault. I would never, ever intentionally trivialize the emotional and physical challenges of terminating a pregnancy. My only goal is to increase awareness and decrease stigma. I take reproductive choice in America more seriously than I take literally anything else, and therefore own full responsibility for any words I speak that don't convey this truth clearly. I know plenty of people will never like a thing that leaves my lips, mea culpas or no, but this apology is for the women who have placed their trust in me. You mean everything to me. My life is and always will be devoted to reproductive justice and freedom. You know how in some households you curse and have to put money in a jar? Well in mine, if you mess up your pro-choice messaging you have to give a sizable donation to abortion funds (https://abortionfunds.org/need-abortion) in New York, Texas and Ohio ????I look forward to fighting with you all for the next four years and beyond.

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Dunham has received backlash online before for comments she made including last September when she said NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. seemed disinterested in her at the 2016 Met Ball.

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