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Michelle Malkin - A message from Ashley Judd
townhall.com ^ | 4/28/04 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 04/27/2004 9:41:51 PM PDT by kattracks

Beautiful young actress Ashley Judd went to Washington last weekend wearing a crucifix and a trendy little T-shirt that boasted: "THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST LOOKS LIKE."
 
The Associated Press snapped a photo of Ashley, honored guest of the "March for Women's Lives," which has been widely disseminated on the Internet. Pro-abortion leaders must be ecstatic. In a sea of angry (Hillary Rodham Clinton), haggard (Cybill Shepherd) and ghoulish (Whoopi Goldberg) women shaking their fists and waving coat hangers, Ashley's pretty smile helped put a softer, gentler and more glamorous spin on the morbid march for "reproductive rights."

 Ashley's message to millions of young American women and girls: Opposing the partial-birth abortion ban is fun! Morning-after pills are cool! Sex without consequences rules!

 One wonders what Ashley's mom, beloved country singer Naomi Judd, must have thought of her daughter traipsing around with abortion rights' militants. Naomi has spoken eloquently for years about how she firmly rejected abortion as an unwed teen and repeatedly witnessed the miracle of life as a labor and delivery nurse. "I've seen ultrasounds . . . you know that those babies are real," she told TV talk show host Sally Jesse Raphael in 1998.

 A few years later, Naomi faced off against Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., on ABC's "Politically Incorrect" and argued for an eminently reasonable 24-hour waiting period before abortions. Drawing on her nursing experience, Naomi advocated full disclosure of the risks and consequences of abortion -- including the use of ultrasound to give women the "whole picture." Sen. Mikulski growled that it was an "insult" to think that women didn't know what they were doing. Naomi responded that famous abortionist Bernard Nathanson, co-founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League, only disavowed his profession after witnessing abortion procedures filmed through ultrasound technology.

 "Oh, my God in heaven, this is a living human being in its mother's womb," Naomi quoted Nathanson confessing. "(H)e was devastated at what he had done."

 Needless to say, neither Naomi nor Dr. Nathanson was welcomed on the dais with Ashley, Whoopi and Cybill. Neither was Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, who committed the shocking sin of letting the truth about abortion slip out in a recent Newsweek interview. The procedure, she said, is about "stopping the process of life . . . I don't view abortion as just a nothing."

 One wonders at the candid conversation Mrs. Heinz Kerry might have had with Rebecca Porter, Florida director of Operation Outcry Silent No More, who recently attended a Kerry campaign event in Tampa, Fla. Porter quietly held a sign that read, "My abortion hurt me." Candidate John Kerry stared at Porter's sign while working a handshake line, but did not address her. Instead, a Kerry campaign staffer grabbed the sign and tore it to pieces.

 Emulating the Democratic Party strategy (remember, this is the party that banned pro-life Democrat Bob Casey, the late governor of Pennsylvania, from speaking at its 1992 presidential convention), the free-speech fanatics of the Left did their best to stifle pro-life dissent and voices of conscience at last weekend's march. They shouted down counter-protesters and tried to hide pro-life protest signs by covering them with their profanity-laced placards. The abortionistas got unexpected help from the Bush administration's National Park Service, which forbade many pro-lifers from displaying graphic posters on adjacent sidewalks.

 Nonetheless, the truth keeps slipping out. In Britain, a ground-breaking documentary by filmmaker Julia Black titled "My Foetus" aired last week. Black is pro-choice, but says she "wanted to kick-start debate by allowing both sides . . . to actually look at what an abortion is." Her film showed a four-week-old fetus being vacuumed from its mother's womb -- as well as images of the broken limbs of 10, 11 and 21-week-old aborted children.

 Pro-choice journalist Lauren Booth described her response to the documentary this way: "My hand flew to my mouth in shock. I swallowed. I didn't want to say it, but the word 'murder' came to my lips."

 This is the true face of abortion, Ashley. Multiply it by 40 million. The mass destruction of unborn life in the name of feminist rights is not "just a nothing." Go ask your mom.

©2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ashleyjudd; michellemalkin; naomijudd; proaborts
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To: Miss Marple
Thanks for the ping....

Yes, it would appear Michelle didn't hear the rant that those extended neck photos was part of.

I also maintain folks are hoodwinked by mom Naomi too!

I've heard her too many times compromise her beliefs & so called values....

..so I'm probably not that surprised with the way her daughter is turning out.

Naomi is not of whole cloth..in my opinion.
She's more liberal in her thinking than folks know....
..and just watch, she will put a positive or, at the very least, a cover spin on what Ashley did.

Naomi can 'talk the talk'....but compromises her 'walk'...

Ashley can wear a crucifix....and according to Ellen Burstyn, recite the Bible chapter & verse....

..but we see the company she keeps, and evidence of corruption.

And sure, lots of good parents who try hard to bring up their children with a correct value system, don't always achieve that success...

...but what turns me off about Naomi is she always seemed to want it both ways....conservative in talk, but opposite in action.

OK, I've had my rant, LOL.

41 posted on 04/28/2004 6:11:11 AM PDT by Guenevere (..., .Press on toward the goal!)
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To: John Lenin

42 posted on 04/28/2004 6:12:51 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (So you're a feminist - isn't that cute!)
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To: LucyJo

OK, my neck is all primed and any second now, I'm gonna cut loose and CROW!!

"BA BAAACK"!

Prairie

43 posted on 04/28/2004 6:12:57 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (New mantra for the Democrats: "Anyone but Kerry!")
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To: NormsRevenge
That's Cybill Shepherd in the hat??????

Unrecognizable!

She must have had YET ANOTHER face-lift....(meow)

44 posted on 04/28/2004 6:16:13 AM PDT by Guenevere (..., .Press on toward the goal!)
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To: kattracks
She's still hot - so is Michelle Malkin.
45 posted on 04/28/2004 6:16:48 AM PDT by Conservomax (shill: One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into part)
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To: kattracks
I really thought she was smarter than that - never mind her values. Disappointing.
46 posted on 04/28/2004 6:24:02 AM PDT by Let's Roll (Kerry is a self-confessed unindicted war criminal or ... a traitor to his country in a time of war)
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To: mountaineer
When I think of hillary I wonder why her mother didn't abort! She's my only reason to support abortion, otherwise the whole practice is government supported murder.
47 posted on 04/28/2004 6:28:29 AM PDT by Lucky2 ( 2004 is the year the Yankees will win the World Series and GWB will be re-elected!)
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To: squidly
Looks like a little too much plastic surgery.
48 posted on 04/28/2004 6:35:56 AM PDT by hopespringseternal (People should be banned for sophistry.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Kinda funny that an old billionaire's girlfriend is called "Leach".
49 posted on 04/28/2004 6:40:51 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Guenevere
The real irony here is that Ashley Judd is adopted.
50 posted on 04/28/2004 6:49:46 AM PDT by Ranxerox
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To: Ranxerox
#50..Really....is this true?
I didn't know this????
51 posted on 04/28/2004 6:54:34 AM PDT by Guenevere (..., .Press on toward the goal!)
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To: John Lenin

This is what a baby killer looks like.

52 posted on 04/28/2004 6:56:16 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: kattracks
I know I said some pretty harsh things about Naomi....

..but that's my opinion.

She correctly quoted Nathanson.....to her credit

...but I will have to let God figure her out....

..she simply upsets me. .

Again, there may be those who disagree with my opinion of her...

..so be it, and correct me please if I'm wrong.

53 posted on 04/28/2004 7:15:34 AM PDT by Guenevere (..., .Press on toward the goal!)
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To: Ranxerox
"The real irony here is that Ashley Judd is adopted."

No, she's not. As I've heard it, Naomi became pregnant with Wynonna and then married. She later had Ashley with that same husband. The twist is that the man she married when pregnant with Wynonna wasn't Wynonna's father, but he is Ashley's father. Therefore, Wynonna and Ashley are half sisters.

54 posted on 04/28/2004 7:22:26 AM PDT by Artist
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To: Guenevere
She's not. See #54.
55 posted on 04/28/2004 7:23:26 AM PDT by Artist
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To: Artist
Thanks...
..sounds like a soap opera :^
56 posted on 04/28/2004 7:26:52 AM PDT by Guenevere (..., .Press on toward the goal!)
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just another self identified hollywood wacko I refuse to spend my money to see.
57 posted on 04/28/2004 7:27:00 AM PDT by Delta 21 (MKC USCG - ret)
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To: Artist
I'll take you word for it. My mistake.
58 posted on 04/28/2004 7:30:43 AM PDT by Ranxerox
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To: kattracks
I wish the media would show the Black documentary here in the US, but of course they won't, because too many of the feminazis have probably had their wombs vacuumed.
59 posted on 04/28/2004 7:55:24 AM PDT by tillacum (President Bush and our Military will defeat the terrorists.)
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To: 54-46 Was My Number

Makeup does wonders - and some plastic surgery would help

60 posted on 04/28/2004 8:02:42 AM PDT by eleni121 (Preempt and Prevent---then Destroy)
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