Michelle Obama facing backlash over claim about women's reproductive health

Former First Lady Michelle Obama is facing backlash aft saying that creating beingness is "the least" of what a woman’s reproductive strategy does. 

On the latest occurrence of the podcast "IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson," the erstwhile archetypal woman and her member were joined by OB/GYN Dr. Sharon Malone, whose husband, Eric Holder, served arsenic Attorney General nether erstwhile President Barack Obama. During the discussion, the erstwhile archetypal woman lamented that women’s reproductive wellness "has been reduced to the question of choice." 

"I attempted to marque the statement connected the run way this past predetermination was that there’s conscionable truthful overmuch much astatine involvement and due to the fact that truthful galore men person nary thought astir what women spell through," Obama said. She went connected to assertion that the deficiency of probe connected women’s wellness shapes antheral leaders’ perceptions of the contented of abortion.

Dr. Sharon Malone joins the podcast "IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson." The occurrence was released connected May 28, 2025. ("IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson"/YouTube)

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"Women’s reproductive wellness is astir our life. It’s astir this full analyzable reproductive strategy that the slightest of what it does is nutrient life," Obama added, "It’s a precise important happening that it does, but you lone nutrient beingness if the instrumentality that’s producing it — if you privation to whittle america down to a instrumentality — is functioning successful a healthy, streamlined benignant of way."

In the aforesaid episode, the erstwhile archetypal woman seemed to scold Republican men by saying that the men who "sit connected their hands" implicit termination are choosing to "trade retired women’s wellness for a taxation interruption oregon immoderate it is." Obama besides criticized Republican women, suggesting they voted for President Donald Trump due to the fact that of their husbands.

"There are a batch of men who person large chairs astatine their tables, determination are a batch of women who ballot the mode their antheral is going to vote, it happened successful this election."

Former archetypal woman Michelle Obama speaks during an occurrence of her podcast, "IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson" connected May 28, 2025. ("IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson"/YouTube)

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The "Becoming" author’s remarks drew disapproval from pro-life activists, including Danielle D’Souza Gill, the woman of Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas. The mates announced the commencement of their 2nd kid earlier successful May. 

"Motherhood is the astir beauteous and almighty acquisition God gave women. Creating beingness isn’t a broadside effect, it’s a miracle. Don’t fto the Left cheapen it," D’Souza Gill wrote successful a station connected X.

Isabel Brown, a contented creator and author, besides slammed the erstwhile archetypal woman arsenic a "supposed feminist icon."

"I americium SO sick [and] bushed of celebrities [and] elitists attempting to person you that your miraculous superpower quality to GROW LIFE from thing is someway demeaning [and] ‘lesser than’ for women," Brown wrote.

Former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama attends Opening Night celebrating '50 years of adjacent pay' during Day One of the 2023 US Open astatine Arthur Ashe Stadium astatine the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center connected August 28, 2023.(Photo by Jean Catuffe/GC Images) (Jean Catuffe/GC Images)

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At the clip of this writing, Obama's podcast is ranked 51 connected Apple Podcasts and doesn't look connected the database of the apical 100 podcasts connected Spotify. However, it is ranked 91 connected the database of 100 trending podcasts connected Spotify. The full occurrence with Malone is disposable connected YouTube, wherever it presently has conscionable nether 41,150 views truthful far.