<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Hamnet” star Jessie Buckley, who just won the Academy Award for Best Actress on Sunday night, is being praised for her pro-family, pro-baby acceptance speech that stands in stark contrast to previous winners who celebrated abortion from the podium. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Buckley, 36, became visibly emotional when her name was announced during Hollywood’s biggest night. She began her speech by thanking the cast and crew, but then drew the most attention by directing it toward her family. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My family, my Irish family, they’re all here,” she said. “Mom, Dad, thank you for teaching us to dream and to never be defined by expectation and to carve from your own passion.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Buckley next turned her attention to her husband of three years. “You, Fred, I love you, man. I love you; you’re the most incredible dad. You’re my best friend, and I want to have 20,000 more babies with you, I do. I do!” she said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The mom of one then addressed her baby daughter. “And Isla, my little girl who is eight months, who has absolutely no idea what’s going on and is probably dreaming of milk, but this is kind of a big deal, and I love you, and I love being your mom, and I can’t wait to discover life beside you,” she went on. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s Mother’s Day in the U.K. today, so I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart. We all come from a lineage of women who continue to create against all odds. Thank you for recognizing me in this role. This is the greatest honor. I can’t even believe it.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Buckley was the first Irish woman to win a Best Actress award, but chose to skip blathering about representation and instead focus on her loved ones.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reactions on social media were overwhelmingly positive.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Imagine if every Hollywood actor showed this level of humility and poured this kind of love onto their kids instead of giving us preachy lectures. Hollywood would still have fans,” one commenter </span><a href="https://x.com/kangminlee/status/2033384463489466865?s=43"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This is the greatest expression of love between two healthy people,” conservative pundit Bethany Mandel </span><a href="https://x.com/bethanyshondark/status/2033468952936866079?s=43"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the “want to have 20,000 more babies with you” line. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Beautiful,” pro-life activist Lila Rose agreed. “Marriage isn’t a trap. Babies aren’t burdens. Motherhood is a gift.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Buckley’s testament to family following her win stands in stark contrast to Michelle Williams’ infamous acceptance speech at the Golden Globes in 2020, when she said, &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to do this without employing a woman&#8217;s right to choose.”</span></p>

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