Michelle Malkin - A message from Ashley Judd

townhall.com ^ | 4/28/04 | Michelle Malkin

[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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[cgk]

Pinging Malkin's list... (back from hiatus) :)

[cgk]

Pro-life/pro-baby ping! (back from hiatus)...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Zack Nguyen]

Very interesting post. The hippie generation did exactly the same thing to the WWII generation.

[threat matrix]

She doesn't look anything like this anymore!

[Hammerhead]

"How utterly cruel to deny your own child life."


WOW! That just hit me in the face like a truck!

I would love to see that as a bumper sticker.

that was awesome!

[Hammerhead]

"How utterly cruel to deny your own child life."


WOW! That just hit me in the face like a truck!

I would love to see that as a bumper sticker.

that was awesome!

[Roberts]

Unbelievable.

[beaversmom]

Oh yeah, just lovely. Who's gonna have the guts to post a picture of the lovely procedure she supports?

[hattend]

BTTT. Laura Ingraham just had Michelle Malkin as a guest on her show.

[Corin Stormhands]

bump

[hattend]

She sure looks a lot like her mom to be adopted. Got a link to that factoid?

[beaversmom]

Think I saw her on a program a year or so ago trying to hitch herself to the AIDS in Africa bandwagon too. She wears the appropriate T-shirt and then you don't hear much from her again--kinda Sheryl Crowish. But, hey, when you are a Hollywood idiot trying to get face time, what more do you have to do?!?

[VadeRetro]

She may be cute but she certainly isn't cool. She's the poster girl for "uptight," neck muscles taught as the skin on a drum.

[VadeRetro]

Amazing that the seedy old bum Ted Truner looks a little bit like mega-rich Ted Turner, facially.

[Republican Red]

I heard Maxine Waters told the rallied,

“I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.”

Sure does bring more meaning to the term useful idiot.

[Ranxerox]

Nope, my mistake. Serves me right for listening to what some people tell me. See post #54 for the real skinny.

[beaversmom]

No, she didn't really say that, did she? How funny. Wonder who the biggest idiot is, Waters or Jackson Lee?

[bootyist-monk]

This is what an Actress whose career is on a downward spiral looks like.

[Republican Red]

MAD MAX [KJL ]
There were a good number of “Say What” moments at the March this weekend. Some of the most telling were at the pre-rally the night before, filled with music and ranting aimed at modern-day bra-burner wannabe college students and their nostalgic feminist mothers. One of the most bizarre though, came from Maxine Waters. After sending a civil message to the president (George W Bush, go to hell! And while you’re at it, we want you to take Ashcroft with you. And don’t forget Rumsfeld. And please carry along Condi Rice.”),
Waters told the rallied, “I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/04_04_25_corner-archive.asp