Michelle Obama faces backlash over feedback downplaying girls creating life

[ad_1] Former First Girl Michelle Obama is dealing with backlash after saying that creating life is "the least" of what a lady’s reproductive system does.

On the most recent episode of the podcast "IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson," the previous first woman and her brother have been joined by OB/GYN Dr. Sharon Malone, whose husband, Eric Holder, served as Lawyer Common underneath former President Barack Obama. In the course of the dialogue, the previous first woman lamented that girls’s reproductive well being "has been diminished to the query of alternative."

"I tried to make the argument on the marketing campaign path this previous election was that there’s simply a lot extra at stake and since so many males don't know about what girls undergo," Obama mentioned. She went on to assert that the dearth of analysis on girls’s well being shapes male leaders’ perceptions of the difficulty of abortion.

Dr. Sharon Malone joins the podcast "IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson." The episode was launched on Might 28, 2025. ("IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson"/YouTube)

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"Ladies’s reproductive well being is about our life. It’s about this complete difficult reproductive system that the least of what it does is produce life," Obama added, "It’s an important factor that it does, however you solely produce life if the machine that’s producing it — if you wish to whittle us right down to a machine — is functioning in a wholesome, streamlined sort of approach."

In the identical episode, the previous first woman appeared to scold Republican males by saying that the boys who "sit on their fingers" over abortion are selecting to "commerce out girls’s well being for a tax break or no matter it's." Obama additionally criticized Republican girls, suggesting they voted for President Donald Trump due to their husbands.

"There are lots of males who've large chairs at their tables, there are lots of girls who vote the best way their man goes to vote, it occurred on this election."

Former first woman Michelle Obama speaks throughout an episode of her podcast, "IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson" on Might 28, 2025. ("IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson"/YouTube)

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The "Turning into" writer’s remarks drew criticism from pro-life activists, together with Danielle D’Souza Gill, the spouse of Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas. The couple introduced the delivery of their second youngster earlier in Might.

"Motherhood is probably the most lovely and highly effective reward God gave girls. Creating life isn’t a aspect impact, it’s a miracle. Don’t let the Left cheapen it," D’Souza Gill wrote in a put up on X.

Isabel Brown, a content material creator and writer, additionally slammed the previous first woman as a "supposed feminist icon."

"I'm SO sick [and] bored with celebrities [and] elitists making an attempt to persuade you that your miraculous superpower skill to GROW LIFE from nothing is someway demeaning [and] ‘lesser than’ for women ," Brown wrote.

Former First Girl of the USA Michelle Obama attends Opening Evening celebrating '50 years of equal pay' throughout Day One of many 2023 US Open at Arthur Ashe Stadium on the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Middle on August 28, 2023.(Picture by Jean Catuffe/GC Photographs) (Jean Catuffe/GC Photographs)

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On the time of this writing, Obama's podcast is ranked 51 on Apple Podcasts and does not seem on the record of the highest 100 podcasts on Spotify. Nonetheless, it's ranked 91 on the record of 100 trending podcasts on Spotify. The complete episode with Malone is out there on YouTube, the place it presently has just below 41,150 views to this point.