Lena Dunham, Planned Parenthood encouraging women to vote

Lena Dunham is once again teaming up with Planned Parenthood, urging young women to vote in a new video released just days before the midterm elections.

“When you show up to the polls, you empower yourself, you empower the women you love, and you take control of your own body back from politicians who don’t want the best for you,” the creator and star of HBO’s “Girls” says in the four-and-a-half-minute clip posted Thursday on Glamour magazine’s website.

{mosads}The video, filmed during Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl book tour, supports the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the organization’s political arm. The 28-year-old entertainer, who supported President Obama in 2012, encouraged women to vote for Democrats in an email sent to Planned Parenthood Action Fund supporters last month.

Women interviewed as part of the latest video message, filmed documentary-style in black and white, are seen telling the camera “what it means to be a young woman in 2014.”

“You know, there’s just these old dudes in D.C. who want to tell you how to live your life and what you should do with your body,” says one of the women.

Dunham said in a statement that she wants millennial youth to “show up at the polls in record numbers, to show that we won’t stand for attacks on women and their rights, that we recognize our power to shape the future.”