Posted on 07/29/2016 11:07:20 AM PDT by Morgana
Actress Ashley Judd spoke during the Democratic National Convention this week about protecting the rights of sexual assault survivors like herself. Unfortunately, Judd also gave a passionate plea for legalized abortion on demand.
The actress spoke during an event hosted by NARAL, a radical pro-abortion group that supports abortion, not just in the rare cases, but for any reason up until birth. Earlier in the week, NARAL president Ilyse Hogue proudly bragged about her abortion at the DNC as the crowd cheered.
New York Magazine reports Judd told the NARAL “Men for Choice” crowd about how she became pregnant after she was raped. She said she made the “excruciating decision” to have an abortion, and now she is glad she did.
“If abortion had not been safe and legal at that time, I would have been forced to carry to term and deliver a child that was conceived in rape,” Judd said.
The report continues:
“We are a great country, and rapists have paternity rights in 22 states, including the state in which I was raped and the state which my rapist is from,” Judd went on. In many of those states, parental rights can’t be terminated unless the attacker is convicted of sexual assault, which as we’ve seen lately is not always easy to achieve, even in the cases when women report their rapes, which in the majority of cases they do not.
It’s protecting her right to decide what to do with her body, Judd says of why she’s with Hillary Clinton, because she can’t imagine a world in which the law would have required her to make a different choice than she did. “I am very grateful to NARAL and Men for Choice for allowing me the dignity to make that excruciating decision for myself.
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Sexual assault is horrible, and survivors like Judd deserve the best care and support that society can provide. But, as is the case with Judd, sometimes rape results in the creation of a second victim – a child. That child, who did nothing wrong, also deserves care and support, not death.
Many pro-lifers do agree with Judd on one thing: It should be easier to terminate rapists’ parental rights. Women can be driven to abortion by the fear that having their child will force them to maintain contact with their abuser.
Analyn Megison, a board member of of Hope After Rape Conception, had to fight her rapist for custody of her daughter.
“My custody case in Florida against my rapist started in 2010 and went on for a little over two years. Though I had a restraining order and had pursued prosecution, he was not convicted of rape,” Megison said. “At the time he sued for custody, I did not know how many states had no or limited legal protection at that time from a rapist biological father when the child was conceived from his attack. Those states which had laws required a rape conviction.”
To protect women from this trauma, a number of states have introduced legislation to make it easier to terminate the parental rights of a rapist. New Mexico is one.
In 2015, pro-life advocates also succeeded in advocating for a new federal law, the Rape Survivor Child Custody Act, to protect women in these situations. Rebecca Kiessling, who has been working to protect mothers across the country who decide against having an abortion after they were victimized, has helped pushed the legislation on a state level.
Kiessling told LifeNews in 2015 that the new law “provides an incentive to states to pass legislation providing for a means to terminate the parental rights of rapists, using the ‘clear and convincing evidence’ standard from the U.S Supreme Court case of Santosky v Kramer.”
Kiessling is urging pro-life advocates to get involved in the battle to protect mothers from rapists who seek custody of their children after the rape and abortion rejection.
“We encourage every pro-life organization to get behind this legislation, as Right to Life of Michigan is currently championing this bill. Not only is it pro-life in effect — because pregnant rape victims will be more likely to choose life if they know they’ll be protected from the rapist, but you’ll be able to demonstrate that you really care about these women and their children, and you’ll also have the advantage of seeing rape survivor mothers testifying before the legislature,” she explained.
Regards,
Just as there are categories of homicide (manslaughter, murder, ect.) there are different categories of rape (forcible and statutory at the present). Forcible rape should proven only in cases of no doubt, otherwise it would fall into sexual assault.
And post-facto rape should be under the category of false accusation.
If it wasn’t for the seriousness of the issue, I would say this post is useless (for the usual reasons).
ASS-LEY JUDD? AGAIN? At first, abortion was touted as
being “safe, legal and RARE”. So much for rare.
Now, abortion is the GENOCIDE of MILLIONS of BLACK
BABIES! That demon Margaret Sanger is probably laughing
her blazing butt off at the thought of how gullible the
Negro people are!
Black people, poor people, ALL people - our country’s
most precious and valuable asset, slaughtered in the
womb and SOLD like so much “product”. GOD HELP US!!
“I would have been forced to carry to term and deliver a child that was conceived in rape”
Instead she was able to murder an innocent child to spare herself some emotional distress. That’s a “win”?
Sounds like a false rape claim to prejudice the courts against assigning shared custody to me...
I think one has to take Ms. Judd’s claims with a huge grain of salt. She claims to have been raped by three separate men. Statistically, this would place her in the VERY rare category. She’s an activist. She wants to shock. She loves the victimhood badge, so I’m very leery. Rape is horrible, deserves a life sentence, but Judd has actually joked about it, saying that “Buying an Apple product is like rape.” Uh, OK.
For these self-absorbed prime donne, any chance they would ruin their perfect body with a pregnancy is out of the question. Abortion is a fitness program. That’s the ticket!
Instead, you murdered an innocent baby. That makes you worse than the rapist, Ashley.
Repent! Do not brag about your sins, do not try to normalize your transgressions! Repent! Recognize the evil of what you have done, turn to God for forgiveness, resolve never to do it again. Be washed clean in the blood of the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world. He will have mercy on you. It's not too late.
“I saw a program about the Judds several years ago which told the true story of them.
They are basically fruitcakes and pretty sorry ones at that. Virtually everything about their public persona is false.”
Exactly. Naomi dated 2 guys in High School & conceived Wynonna. One of the boys was wealthy so she claimed he was the father, when she knew he was not. Unfortunately for Naomi, Wynonna looked just like her real father, so that secret didn’t last very long.
Naomi resented Wynonna for that and was emotionally & verbally abusive to her. Naomi’s not the sweet, doting mother she portrayed for years. She is selfish & narcissitic. Evidently, Ashley possesses those same qualities. She’s an arrogant know-it-all who is quite ignorant about the real world.
The ironic thing is that Ashley & Naomi owe their success to Wynonna. She’s the only one in that family with any actual talent. Naomi was only a backup singer. If not for Wynonna, they would be working regular jobs.
Yet, Naomi & Ashley both treat Wynonna as an ugly stepsister.
I also saw an interview w/Wynonna, and she did steadfastly DEFEND life. What I took from it was she felt (my interpretation only!) that if mom had known who her bio daddy was, Wynonna wouldn’t be here.
She has also struggled w/weight. And I wonder what good food filled for her given her childhood.
I think your interpretation was spot on. I don’t blame Wynonna for having those thoughts because Naomi was not happy when Wynonna started looking like her bio dad. I’ve seen a pic of him & there is no doubt who her father is. I applaud Wynonna for being Pro-life & raising her own two children.
I have also guessed that Wynonna used food as an emotional crutch. I believe that she has admitted that food was her “comfort”. I remember one of the Judds’ first producers speaking in an interview about how mother & daughter fought & the terrible way Naomi spoke to Wynonna.
I know Wynonna’s had her demons but, considering her family, I can see why.
That is pretty much my impression of them too.
I don’t think the program even mentioned it directly but it was obvious that Mama conned the rich guy into thinking Wynona was his child and I also noted the physical resemblance to the other guy.
Ashley and Naomi are both unusually pretty, I will give them that.
What a “C”.....
Moral and ethical aspects aside (as if one can separate those) Ashley just took herself and her genes out of the gene pool. Short term she committed murder, long term, she was a non-successful reproducer and hence her insane genes cease to affect the future.
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