Ashley Judd Honours Mom Naomi Judd With Emotional Letter About Roe v. Wade

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Only days after losing her mother, Naomi Judd, Ashley Judd is honouring her ahead of Mother’s Day. Ashley used the moment to bring attention to the leaked Roe v.

Wade documents in an op-ed for USA Today. “This Sunday is abruptly, shockingly, my first Mother’s Day without my mama,” Ashley wrote. “It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

I was supposed to visit her on Sunday, to give her a box of old-fashioned candy, our family tradition.” Ashley continued to explain how motherhood happened to Naomi “without her consent.” READ MORE: Shania Twain Remembers Naomi Judd: ‘Her Life Was A Triumph’ “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,” Ashley said. “She experienced an unintended pregnancy at age 17, and that led her down a road familiar to so many adolescent mothers, including poverty and gender-based violence.” She continued, “Forgive me if my grief isn’t tidy.

When I think about my mother, I am awash in the painful specifics. It’s a little easier, this Mother’s Day, to think about mothers in the collective, to wonder whether we value them.” Ashley pointed out how over 800 women die a day in pregnancy and childbirth “from causes for which solutions are affordable and achievable.” She questioned if society values mothers with the U.S.