The American Spectator
. . ."Yet Democrats such as Obama have jumped onto Amber Thurman’s story and spun up the narrative that unborn babies are pitted against women’s health and safety." . . .
"This week, during a new episode of her podcast, Michelle Obama put forward a perspective on the female reproductive system that can only be described as odd. “The least” of what the female reproductive system does, Obama said, “is produce life.”"It’s quite a funny thing to say when the elements of the female reproductive system are quite clearly intended for, well, reproduction. The uterus, for instance, isn’t sitting around just for kicks. Turns out it’s there to nurture and safeguard unborn children.
"But in Michelle Obama’s version of reality, the female reproductive system’s role in the generation of new life is nearly shameful. She wants women to be only about themselves, and definitely not tied to their child-bearing capacity. In fact, any part of a woman that is geared toward the bearing of children must be repurposed to being primarily about the woman.
" 'Women’s reproductive health is about our life,” insisted Obama in her podcast. “It’s about this whole complicated reproductive system, the least of what it does is produce life.”
"Obama claimed that pro-lifers, which she stereotyped as clueless men, only care about unborn babies, and pay no regard to women. She contrasted this to her vision, in which reproductive health is only about “our life,” that is, about women.
" 'We haven’t been researched, we haven’t been considered,” she said, “and it still affects the way a lot of men lawmakers, a lot of male politicians, a lot of male religious leaders think about the issue of choice, as if it’s just about the fetus, the baby, but women’s reproductive health is about our life.”
"Obama connected these claims to speeches she gave on the campaign trail last year, the most prominent of which was an address she gave in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in October. The speech, which the New York Times described as “striking,” was in reality a scare-tactics-laced screed based on the false premise that women are dying because of laws against abortion.
"“[Trump] could take actions that effectively ban abortion nationwide,” said Obama, “which will put all of us in danger no matter what state we live in. We will see more doctors hesitating or shying away from providing lifesaving treatment because they are worried about being arrested." .
”Ellie Gardey Holmes is Reporter and Associate Editor at The American Spectator. She is the author of Newsom Unleashed: The Progressive Lust for Unbridled Power. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she studied political science, philosophy, and journalism. Ellie has previously written for the Daily Caller, College Fix, and Irish Rover.
