'It wasn’t supposed to be this way,' Ashley Judd wrote in her essay.
reported. She added that she had firsthand experience of seeing women “whose bodies were mangled from childbirth” while she volunteered with the United Nations Population Fund in South Sudan.
Ashley Judd also referenced the leaked draft opinion of the Supreme Court’s possible intention to overturn Roe v. Wade and spoke about the landmark case as well, noting that “motherhood should always be a choice.”“Perhaps it’s indecorous to say, but my heart is filled with something else, too. Incandescent rage,” Ashley Judd. “Because my mother was stolen from me by the disease of mental illness, by the wounds she carried from a lifetime of injustices that started when she was a girl.
Naomi Judd was one-half of the singing duo, The Judds, performing with her daughter Wynonna Judd. Naomi Judd died on the eve of The Judds’into the Country Music Hall of Fame on May 1. Wynonna Judd attended the ceremony, telling the audience that “I feel so blessed and it’s a very strange dynamic to be this broken and this blessed … but though my heart is broken, I will continue to sing.”
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