Michelle Obama, who was first lady from 2009 to 2017, has come under fire for claiming that bearing children is “the least” a woman’s reproductive system can accomplish.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama and her brother Craig Robinson were joined on the most recent edition of their podcast, “IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson,” by OB/GYN Dr. Sharon Malone. Malone’s husband, Eric Holder, was Attorney General under Obama. During the conversation, the ex-first lady expressed her disappointment that reproductive health for women “has been reduced to the question of choice.”
“I attempted to make the argument on the campaign trail this past election was that there’s just so much more at stake and because so many men have no idea about what women go through,” stated the president. She continued by saying that male leaders’ views on abortion are influenced by the dearth of studies on women’s health.
Reproductive health is a matter of life and death for women. For all the complexity of our reproductive system, the most basic function is to create new life. Obama elaborated, saying, “It’s a very important thing that it does, but you only produce life if the machine that’s producing it — if you want to whittle us down to a machine — is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way.”
While on the topic of Republicans, the ex-first lady appeared to reprimand them in the same show, accusing them of “sitting on their hands” when it comes to abortion and of “trading out women’s health for a tax break or whatever it is.” Obama went on to attack Republican women, implying that their support for Trump was influenced by their spouses.
“There are a lot of men who have big chairs at their tables, there are a lot of women who vote the way their man is going to vote, it happened in this election.”
Critics of the “Becoming” author’s comments included pro-life advocates like Rep. Brandon Gill’s (R-Texas) wife, Danielle D’Souza Gill. They welcomed their second child into the world earlier in May, as the happy couple revealed.
Among God’s many blessings to women, motherhood stands head and shoulders above the others. Making life from nothing is a miracle, not an afterthought. “Make sure the Left doesn’t water it down,” D’Souza Gill said in an X post.
Author and content creator Isabel Brown joined many who criticized the ex-first lady, calling her a “supposed feminist icon.”
“I am SO sick [and] tired of celebrities [and] elitists attempting to convince you that your miraculous superpower ability to GROW LIFE from nothing is somehow demeaning [and] ‘lesser than’ for women,” he said.
As of this writing, Obama’s podcast is not included in Spotify’s top 100 podcasts and ranks 51st on Apple Podcasts. Nonetheless, it has 91st place on Spotify’s list of 100 most popular podcasts. So far, the full episode featuring Malone has garnered just under 41,150 views on YouTube.