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

Former First Lady Michelle Obama is facing backlash after saying that creating life is the least of what a woman s reproductive system does On the latest episode of the podcast IMO with Michelle Obama Craig Robinson the former first lady and her brother were joined by OB GYN Dr Sharon Malone whose husband Eric Holder served as Attorney General under former President Barack Obama During the discussion the former first lady lamented that women s reproductive wellness has been reduced to the question of choice I attempted to make the argument on the campaign trail this past electoral process was that there s just so much more at stake and because so a large number of men have no idea about what women go through Obama declared She went on to claim that the lack of research on women s healthcare shapes male leaders perceptions of the issue of abortion MICHELLE OBAMA AND ERIC HOLDER'S WIFE BONDED OVER BEING 'RELUCTANT SPOUSES' TO FAMOUS MEN Women s reproductive wellness is about our life It s about this whole complicated reproductive system that the least of what it does is produce life Obama added It s a very central 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 In the same episode the former first lady seemed to scold Republican men by saying that the men who sit on their hands over abortion are choosing to contract out women s medical for a tax break or whatever it is Obama also criticized Republican women suggesting they voted for President Donald Trump because of their husbands 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 poll MICHELLE OBAMA URGES PARENTS NOT TO TRY TO BE FRIENDS WITH THEIR CHILDRENThe Becoming author s remarks drew criticism from pro-life activists including Danielle D Souza Gill the wife of Rep Brandon Gill R-Texas The couple declared the birth of their second child earlier in May Motherhood is the bulk beautiful and powerful gift God gave women Creating life isn t a side effect it s a miracle Don t let the Left cheapen it D Souza Gill wrote in a post on X Isabel Brown a content creator and author also slammed the former first lady as 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 Brown wrote At the time of this writing Obama's podcast is ranked on Apple Podcasts and doesn't appear on the list of the top podcasts on Spotify However it is ranked on the list of trending podcasts on Spotify The entire episode with Malone is available on YouTube where it in the present has just under views so far