Ashley Judd Makes Cruel and Tasteless Jokes About Abortion in Political Video

Posted on | April 29, 2012 | 116 Comments

Barren middle-aged actress Ashley Judd in scene from
‘Rick Santorum Aborts Presidential Campaign’ video

When last we heard from bitter, childless, menopausal Ashley Judd, the over-the-hill ex-starlet gave us a feminist lecture about how she was being victimized by the oppressive gossip-blog patriarchy.

Last week, however, Judd joined forces with three more attractive actresses — fellow Hollywood liberals Michelle Trachtenberg, Katy Mixon and Eliza Coupe — in a video mocking Rick Santorum’s decision to end his presidential campaign by comparing it to an abortion:

“Oh, Mr. Santorum, take a seat. I understand you’d like to terminate your candidacy. . . . If you weren’t mature enough to carry your candidacy to term, you shouldn’t have engaged in the risky behavior that began it.”

Jennifer Hartline at Catholic Online is outraged:

The stars of the “choice” universe have gone way beyond their worn-out euphemisms and are now embracing shameless mockery. Ashley Judd and crew have made a video that mocks the act of killing babies in the womb. They mock the violence of stopping the heartbeat of a child. What a hilarious analogy they’ve drawn by comparing an abortion to Rick Santorum’s suspended Presidential campaign, if you’re someone who finds dead babies and wounded mothers hilarious. Apparently they do. . . .
So this is what we’ve come to? This is the present and future of “feminism” in America? Women openly mocking the deaths of their own children; deaths fought long and hard for; deaths campaigned and paid for; deaths celebrated as “freedom” and “rights” for women? I’d say that’s officially the bottom, folks. There’s nowhere lower to sink. That’s as pathetic and wicked as it gets.

It is customary, on certain feminist blogs, to include “trigger warnings” before discussion of topics such as sexual assault that may prompt emotional reactions caused by psychologically traumatic memories. Therefore, in consideration of the millions of women suffering from Post-Abortion Syndrome, I offer a “trigger warning” for this video which was — oh, just by the way — directed by a man, Andy Maxwell:

Rick Santorum Aborts Presidential Campaign from Ashley Judd

Jill Stanek notes that Bill O’Reilly recently “dedicated a segment of his show to Judd, predicting her career would certainly suffer for her overt support of abortion,” but forgive me for suspecting that Judd’s suffering is more personal than professional.

We’re two weeks away from Mother’s Day, and no child will ever give the adamantly pro-abortion Ashley Judd a Mother’s Day gift.

Just a coincidence, I’m sure.

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.
— Deuteronomy 30:19 (KJV)

Exit Question: Are women who celebrate abortion as a positive good attempting to compensate for unacknowledged psychological trauma and/or deep-seated feelings of personal inadequacy?

Click here to buy an “Abortion Is Mean” T-shirt with this powerful message on the back:

You will not silence my message.
You will not mock my God.
You will stop killing my generation.

My six children have all worn that T-shirt. Your kids should, too.

UPDATE: Linked by SarahNet and by Donald Douglas at American Power — thanks! — while Lisa Graas says:

On the bright side, Ashley Judd has given me many opportunities to show my two daughters what a complete failure looks like.

UPDATE II: Thoughtful words from Daria DiGiovanni:

Regardless of your position on abortion, how anyone can gleefully spin it as anything other than a tragedy for both mother and child is beyond my comprehension, especially since I know a handful of women personally who’ve been absolutely traumatized by this grisly procedure.

This is just basic: Leave aside entirely any consideration of politics or law, and think of the dreadful human misery involved. Abortion clinics are not happy places where good things happen. It is therefore easy to understand why so many people are emotionally outspoken against abortion. What is utterly incomprehensible is how anyone other than the most heartless sadists could be passionately pro-abortion.

Category: Abortion, Celebrities, Election 2012, Feminism, Hollywood, Rick Santorum, Video

Comments

116 Responses to “Ashley Judd Makes Cruel and Tasteless Jokes About Abortion in Political Video”

Bob Belvedere
April 29th, 2012 @ 5:44 pm

Oh, they have minds. It’s just that, when they signed-on to become Leftists at The Crossroads, they agreed to cancel the service agreement for them.
Bob Belvedere
April 29th, 2012 @ 5:52 pm

I agree with PW: these issues must be brought up. They are all tied together as Mr. Santorum said. His problem wasn’t taking the bait, but what he did with it, the way he handled it.

If we were able by some miracle to enact all the necessary economic reforms that we conservative advocate, they wouldn’t succeed in the long run without a restoration of Morality and Virtue – The Permanent Things.
Zilla of the Resistance
April 29th, 2012 @ 5:52 pm

Oh, you must have missed her last big attempt at post career as a sexy actress relevancy! It’s SEXIST to remark on her big puffy face now, even when women notice how bad she looks. At least that is what she said in a really long article at a magazine recently where she whined shrilly and incessantly about it and trotted out some big egghead words to try to make herself look smart, (because she made money on her “beauty” and without that she’ll have to hope someone thinks she has brains). It was quite a pitiful display, if she weren’t such a vile bitch, I’d have been embarrassed for her.
Anyway, she claims her big puffy face is from needing to use the medication prednisone, but to me it looks more like a botched plastic surgery.
Zilla of the Resistance
April 29th, 2012 @ 5:54 pm

Scr0ll down and tell me how I did!
scarymatt
April 29th, 2012 @ 6:01 pm

It just went on a few seasons too long. You can only one up the Biggest Evil so many times before Barak Obama gets elected to something…
scarymatt
April 29th, 2012 @ 6:04 pm

I was so proud. In the first time I recall the subject coming up in a conversation with my 11 year old daughter, her response was, “You mean, killing babies?!”
Bob Belvedere
April 29th, 2012 @ 6:05 pm

I would like to take this moment to complain about the pairing that goes on these days between Countess Bathory and Vlad The Impaler.

She is often referred to as ‘Countess Dracula’ for her killing of virgin girls and for bathing in and drinking their blood in a desperate attempt to stay young.

Vlad had no such vanity: he impaled thousands of Muslims [a very good thing] and killed those of his own kind who had gone all wobbly on the Mohammedin threat, and he solved his welfare problem in one night by inviting the homeless, the crippled, and the mentally retarded to his palace, gave them a lavish dinner, and then killed them – rather clever, if a bit ruthless [but, hey, he was a Slav].
Pathfinder's wife
April 29th, 2012 @ 6:14 pm

You don’t have to call them out — they come running out of their own free will. And when they do, well, exposure to the light is the best disinfectant; they are on your turf rather than your own; since they bring the fight to you, they forfeit the conditions of engagement.

And why would one want to bring a child into the world? Because it beats sitting back and selfishly bemoaning your own lonely little fate, which is what is wrong with the world today — we’re so wrapped up in “me, me, me — oh my, me!” that everything from global terrorism to the economy to the environment will never get fixed…because we can’t get off anything but getting off looking at our own reflections in the pond (and freaking out when the reflection starts to melt with wrinkles…oh no, oh the horror!).
Having children (and actually loving and raising them…not using them as designer lapdogs and handbags) is good for a person’s character — teaches you that there is something beyond yourself.

*and this was a generalized “you”, directed at the world at large, so please don’t take it personally
Pathfinder's wife
April 29th, 2012 @ 6:24 pm

That’s why I didn’t use Vlad — he was ruthless, but no more than any of his contemporaries (were are speaking of a time when one of the interrogation methods widely used both in Europe and elsewhere was to hang a man from his testicles until they ripped off and to sit women on narrow boards, chain them in place and then heat said board up — nobody was particularly nice). He was just very successful at it.
And the story about the homeless, etc. is debatable…it was promulgated by boyars and merchants who had a beef with him (who he did kill without mercy). The merchants were often Teutonic, the boyars in question often sold out to them…and they both were not above making deals with the Turks…so Vlad may perhaps be excused a bit. Romanians consider him a national hero and defender of the faith after all.

Countess Bathory is another story…and the ones told about her I find rather fitting for these harpies.
Adobe_Walls
April 29th, 2012 @ 6:24 pm

So your saying snakes and crocodiles have minds.
Pathfinder's wife
April 29th, 2012 @ 6:32 pm

True, but you are being far too nice.
Adobe_Walls
April 29th, 2012 @ 6:37 pm

Just what would Santorum do about the hagfish given the opportunity?
Santorum can’t talk about social issues without proposing policy. Who we elect will not solve our cultural/social problems and politicians need to be thinking ahead when they talk about them. The majority of Americans have mortgaged their souls for entitlements and other goodies it should be easy to get them to refinance them with us in exchange for prosperity and freedom.
ThePaganTemple
April 29th, 2012 @ 6:41 pm

I remember ages ago using that concept (abortion as a modern day version of Molech worship) as a proposal to this guy who was an editor of a regional magazine, who happened to be a Catholic, and staunchly, even fanatically Pro-Life. I was introduced to him by a friend who had converted to Catholicism when he got married to his wife, who was a cradle Catholic. For a while I was interested, really kind of into it, so I bought into the whole Pro-Life schpiel for a while.

But when I made that proposal, for an article, he rejected the concept. There was a certain party line in those days, which they all pushed, and they didn’t want anything else detracting attention from that.

Now I run into the idea everywhere I go. I ought to fucking sue somebody.
Adobe_Walls
April 29th, 2012 @ 6:48 pm

He is obviously incapable of handling it correctly, if we restore liberty and therefore prosperity we could do anything else we wanted. Most Americans will never hear Santorum make the case for the link between prosperity, liberty and morality unless he’s elected president.
Adobe_Walls
April 29th, 2012 @ 6:49 pm

Callous is perfectly acceptable.
Adobe_Walls
April 29th, 2012 @ 6:55 pm

She’s only 44, a little early for the change.
Adobe_Walls
April 29th, 2012 @ 7:01 pm

None the less one must never pass on an opportunity to extoll the virtue and many accomplishnents of Vlad Die Tepes. We could learn much from him.
Pathfinder's wife
April 29th, 2012 @ 7:09 pm

Restore liberty and therefore prosperity…these things will never happen in a society in which the people can’t practice self-control and ethical restraint.

Eventually only two things happen: a totalitarian, completely secular police state — where those with enough material wealth may indulge in whatever vice and indulgence their tastes lead them to and their pockets can afford (and the rest of the people live in fear, hardship, and ignorance) — see former Soviet bloc; or a totalitarian, theocratic state — where those with enough material wealth may indulge in whatever vice and indulgence their tastes lead them to and their pockets can afford (and the rest of the people live in fear, hardship, and ignorance) — see Middle East.
This after a huge backlash of rather bloody proportions and utter chaos caused by the unhappy convergence of a fed up populace (which can’t figure out the proper way to revolt, as they have given up on self-governance even at the personal level) and a cunning, ruthless strongman(or woman) who says all the right things to them.
Or you just get the chaos and no truly functioning state…see Africa (where the conditions therein make the old Soviet bloc and the Middle East seem positively heavenly).

Breitbart people (he seems to have been a hero to GOP/conservative/libertarian types): didn’t he say something about it being the culture?
Economies can improve, sometimes rather quickly; liberty can be regained, albeit more slowly…but if the culture is dead and rotten, there is no going back…ever.
Zilla of the Resistance
April 29th, 2012 @ 7:13 pm

Or maybe she’s just a bitch, period.

That there is probably what it mostly is, and it explains that stupid article she wrote recently about how it’s sexist even for women to notice how puffy and fucked up looking she’s gotten.
Pathfinder's wife
April 29th, 2012 @ 7:14 pm

She was also a big fan of sexual libertinism (for the women, but of course) being from all accounts perhaps a bit of a swinger herself — and also, by accounts, not exactly the most caring of mothers with her own brood (punished with babies, as it were).

Imhao that’s also worth noting 😉
Pathfinder's wife
April 29th, 2012 @ 7:19 pm

No, they are exactly the problem — that there are so many is the indictment against our society (in our never ending quest to be considered “nice” and “fair” we gave people like her too much “liberty”)….spit.

Soon, we will be paying a very heavy price for this.
Pathfinder's wife
April 29th, 2012 @ 7:22 pm

Don’t worry…eventually, at the rate things are going, we probably will be seeing him again (although, all things considered, I’m not sure people will be so happy with that, especially now that a modern day Vlad would have so many more pretty playthings in his arsenal).
ThePaganTemple
April 29th, 2012 @ 7:23 pm

I don’t care much for Wynona either. I don’t like hearing celebrities whine about their so-called problems. And she acts like she owns the UK Wildcats. Goes to every damn game and you can be sure she makes sure she’s seen.
JeffS
April 29th, 2012 @ 7:33 pm

I had to look Ashley up on IMDB — I had no clue as to who this creature is.

And now that I’ve seen the movies she was in, all I can say is, “Meh. Another Hollywood loser.”
PennyBeach
April 29th, 2012 @ 7:34 pm

Aging and angry. She was probably always off the rails like her mother & and her half sister. Just that when she was younger she looked better not so much now and she got called out on it.So she’s leveling and her choice is the unborn. Nice.
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April 29th, 2012 @ 7:52 pm

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ThePaganTemple
April 29th, 2012 @ 8:06 pm

“We” didn’t give her anything, liberty or otherwise, the left-wing Supreme Court in 1973 gave it to her. Back then, no one knew better. Now, “we” have a chance to set things right by having a conservative leaning court which might set things right, in time. Roe v Wade should be overturned. As far as anything beyond that, you’re not going to change people’s hearts with a political slogan.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
April 29th, 2012 @ 8:06 pm

She is a very unhappy person. And it shows. I pity her more than anything.
Steve Smith
April 29th, 2012 @ 8:07 pm

When these so-called has been celebrities start spouting off, it’s usually indicative of a career that has tanked. So they do and say outrageous things in the hopes of jump starting a career that was never noticeable to begin with.
Zilla of the Resistance
April 29th, 2012 @ 8:38 pm

I was never particularly impressed with her.
Bob Belvedere
April 29th, 2012 @ 8:52 pm

Trouble is, it’s people like me that are pushing the idea and we po’.
Bob Belvedere
April 29th, 2012 @ 8:59 pm

It’s the age my wife started her’s [and it’s still going on nine years later!].
Bob Belvedere
April 29th, 2012 @ 9:02 pm

I was not accusing you, PW, but merely felt it the right moment to defend a defamed man against the calumnies others have tossed at him.
Bob Belvedere
April 29th, 2012 @ 9:03 pm

I think I’m going to start a new campaign:
What Would Vlad Do?
Bob Belvedere
April 29th, 2012 @ 9:04 pm

She was good…and cute, but, even though physically she remains good-looking, her personality comes through on her face and makes her quite unattractive.
Bob Belvedere
April 29th, 2012 @ 9:05 pm

Methinks Mrs. Douglas would have something to say about that if you did.
RufusChoate
April 29th, 2012 @ 9:24 pm

I would like to avoid the parallel universe where such vileness is thought to be funny.

There is a wretchedness beyond sanity, words or compassion where these cannibalistic harpies live and it is on the railway of the hell bound train.
Adobe_Walls
April 29th, 2012 @ 9:51 pm

Our elected officials will not change our culture, it was not elected officials who corrupted it in the first place. The larger “we” did that, the Bolsheviks succeeses in their war’s on religion and patriotism, the embrace of the tiny minorities insistance on mainstreaming homosexualit could only happen in a thoroughly corrupted culture. The rich and famous have always been able to, and have “indulge in whatever vice and indulgence their tastes lead them to and their pockets can afford ” the difference is now they may do so openly with no fear of economic consequences. When Hollywood stars used to hide their foibles it was to avoid economic repercussions. Now bad behavior pays.
The government is not the culture, but a corrupt culture ensures a corrupt government and as long as corruption pays in our private, social and above all economic lives our society will remain corrupt.
Pathfinder's wife
April 29th, 2012 @ 9:58 pm

She isn’t being given the “liberty” to act the bitter, hateful fool? And people let her off the hook by trying to consider the root cause of her “problem”…instead of calling her out for what she really is: a bitter, hateful fool.

Governance starts with the self; it is up to us as individuals to decide and state what we will and will not stand for — and to grant or withold judgement (unless of course, we refuse…then judgement will be made for us; in which case, no b**ching if one doesn’t like the judgement).

While I’m nominally pro-choice (rape, incest, life of mother, yadda yadda — short of the long is I don’t feel comfortable saying absolutely no or absolutely yes in those circumstances, it isn’t my life after all, hopefully people choose well) but enough is enough — Judd and people like her are becoming deranged in their extreme attitudes. It is time to call them on this and say “enough is enough”.

(and that is exactly how it should probably be called out…imhao)
Pathfinder's wife
April 29th, 2012 @ 9:59 pm

Well, there we go — now he got double the defense!!
ThePaganTemple
April 29th, 2012 @ 10:21 pm

Okay then, I misunderstood your point. I thought you were talking about why abortion was legal to begin with. You’ve got to understand though, when you harangue Pro-Choice activists for being hateful, the average person isn’t very impressed. They see the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life sides as two sides of the same coin.

I’ve known Pro-Life people who refuse to support good solid conservative candidates who they claim are “Pro-Abort”, or who they insist just aren’t anti-abortion enough. There’s enough stridency on both sides to go around.
ThePaganTemple
April 29th, 2012 @ 10:27 pm

@Bob_Belvedere:disqus

WWVD?

He’d say, “What, Islamist coddling leftist bastards are aborting their own progeny? Good, it will save me some trouble.”
Adobe_Walls
April 29th, 2012 @ 10:34 pm

The Court doesn’t “give rights” it (sometimes wrongly) recognizes rights. As for the right to make that video, those trollops were born with the right to free speech, Roe v Wade neither “gave” nor “recognized”. The correct reaction to offensive or “bad” speech is more speech and from time to time mob violence.

Roe v Wade will not be overturned outright even though that same court would not have made that ruling today. Roe v Wade must be attacked obliquely and assuming we don’t have a civil war (not a good bet IMAO) in the meantime I believe it will be challenged successfully via the 14th amendment.
Adobe_Walls
April 29th, 2012 @ 10:37 pm

Triple actually.
Adobe_Walls
April 29th, 2012 @ 10:39 pm

“What would Vlad do” would make an excellent slogan not to mention foreign policy. Now there was a statesman I don’t care who you are!
Adobe_Walls
April 29th, 2012 @ 10:45 pm

Me neither something always bothered me about her I suspect Bob is correct, but there is also something else. You know how sometimes you’re watching a movie and you realize that you’re rooting for the psychopath, she has that effect.
Adobe_Walls
April 29th, 2012 @ 10:46 pm

Hard to miss really.
Adobe_Walls
April 29th, 2012 @ 10:58 pm

Well said.
Adobe_Walls
April 29th, 2012 @ 11:19 pm

Further more (I’m surprised Smitty hasn’t jumped in here) while Vlad’s entitlement reform program could have used a little tweaking at least he had one which is more than one can say about #OccupyResoluteDesk
Pathfinder's wife
April 29th, 2012 @ 11:40 pm

I don’t harangue pro-choice people in and of themselves (many hold the same views as myself, so that would be illogical) — I will call out the same when they move beyond “choice” into pro-abortion and act malicious and well, evil.

Ms. Judd and people like her have indeed moved into that realm. Sanger was another one — it was never about giving the choice to the individual for people such as that (and that is also a form of tyranny isn’t it?).

As for political canidates — I remember voting for someone who did not touch Roe v. Wade, yet made his personal opinions quite well known, and did not back down. That I can respect quite a bit. I do not respect politicians who have no opinions on the matter beyond what the latest polls and identity group studies say they should tack, nor do I have much beyond contempt for politicians who I suspect have the same mindset as the Judds and the Sangers of this world. It is altogether very evil, and there is no freedom involved whatsoever.