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After saying on her Women of the Hour podcast this week that “I still haven’t had an abortion, but I wish I had” in order to better empathize with the women she supports, Lena Dunham quickly became the scourge of the internet on Tuesday for “trivializing” the procedure.

No stranger to such a predicament, Dunham shared a lengthy apology on her Instagram later that day, blaming her “‘delusional girl’ persona” for the “distasteful joke,” adding that she has since made a “sizeable” donation to the charity Abortion Funds.

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In the podcast, Dunham, who has long been a pro-choice activist, described a time when she visited a Planned Parenthood in Texas several years ago when a young girl approached her asking if she would contribute her thoughts to a project she was working on involving women sharing their stories of abortions.

The Girls star said, “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. 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 it was important that people know I was unblemished in this department.