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Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
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 health "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," Obama said. She went on to claim that the lack of research on women's health 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 health 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 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." 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 "trade out women's health for a tax break or whatever it is." Obama also criticized Republican women, suggesting they voted for President Donald Trump because of their husbands. Read On The Fox News App "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." Michelle Obama Urges Parents Not To Try To Be Friends With Their Children The "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 announced the birth of their second child earlier in May. "Motherhood is the most 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 51 on Apple Podcasts and doesn't appear on the list of the top 100 podcasts on Spotify. However, it is ranked 91 on the list of 100 trending podcasts on Spotify. The entire episode with Malone is available on YouTube, where it currently has just under 41,150 views so article source: Michelle Obama facing backlash over claim about women's reproductive health
Fox News
3 days ago
- General
- Fox News
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 health "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," Obama said. She went on to claim that the lack of research on women's health shapes male leaders' perceptions of the issue of abortion. "Women's reproductive health 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 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." 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 "trade out women's health 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 election." The "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 announced the birth of their second child earlier in May. "Motherhood is the most 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 51 on Apple Podcasts and doesn't appear on the list of the top 100 podcasts on Spotify. However, it is ranked 91 on the list of 100 trending podcasts on Spotify. The entire episode with Malone is available on YouTube, where it currently has just under 41,150 views so far.
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Michelle Obama shares why it's a pain to be married to Barack amid divorce rumors
Former first lady Michelle Obama revealed new details on some of the annoyances that come with being married to Barack Obama. Obama sat down with her brother Craig Robinson for an episode of their IMO podcast, bringing on as their guest Dr. Sharon Malone. Like Obama, Malone had a stint at being a political wife, as she's married to former Attorney General Eric Holder. Obama recalled that the women first met at a Congressional Black Caucus event when Barack Obama was a U.S. senator. 'They put us together because we were both reluctant spouses attending one of these huge dinners,' the former first lady recalled. 'And what, where were they? Was Barack a U.S. senator?' President Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 - after becoming a nationally recognized political figure for the stirring keynote he delivered at the Democratic National Convention earlier that year. He remained a senator until 2008, resigning after he was elected president of the United States. 'There was a line of people waiting to shake hands with our respective husbands,' Obama recalled. 'You know, people, like reaching over our heads and spilling water on us, trying to get to these two, you know, illustrious men.' Obama made eye contact with Malone and realized they needed to be friends. 'She had the same look on her face as I did, like, "Here we go,"' Obama recalled. 'And I looked over at this beautiful woman ... But I just saw the look on her face, which expressed the sentiments that I felt, which was.' 'P***ed off,' Robinson offered. Obama rejected that. She said it was more like, 'You see this? Like, this is crazy, isn't it, girl?' the former first lady said. For years Obama has been frank about being a 'reluctant' political spouse - but she pulled back even more earlier this year when she decided against going to the late President Jimmy Carter's funeral in January. She then skipped President Donald Trump's second swearing-in ceremony on January 20th, leaving her husband to go solo. Those absences sparked divorce rumors, which Obama addressed during a taping of actress Sophia Bush's podcast last month. 'That's the thing that we as women, I think we struggle with disappointing people. I mean, so much so that this year people were, you know, they couldn't even fathom that I was making a choice for myself that they had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing,' Obama said. 'That this couldn't be a grown woman just making a set of decisions for herself, right?' she continued. Obama added: 'That's what society does to us.' 'We start actually, finally going, "What am I doing? Who am I doing this for?" And if it doesn't fit into the sort of stereotype of what people think we should do, then it gets labeled as something negative and horrible.'
Fox News
6 days ago
- Health
- Fox News
Michelle Obama and Eric Holder's wife bonded over being 'reluctant spouses' to famous men
As former first lady Michelle Obama tells it, it's not easy being married to a famous man, describing people "spilling water" on her while trying to reach her husband. Both Obama and her guest, OB-GYN Dr. Sharon Malone, who joined the podcast that Obama co-hosts with her brother, "IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson," discussed the challenges of being married to famous men on Wednesday. Malone's husband is former Attorney General Eric Holder, who was the 82nd attorney general of the United States from 2009 to 2015 under former President Barack Obama. Michelle Obama recounted the first time she met Malone during an event. "They put us together because we were both reluctant spouses attending one of these huge dinners," Obama said. "And what, where were they… was Barack a U.S. senator?" "Yes, he was a senator because you, you were still living in Chicago and Eric was in private practice," Malone said. "So it was just it was very early days." Michelle Obama said the experience was overwhelming. "There was a line of people waiting to shake hands with our respective husbands," she said. "You know, people, like, reaching over our heads and spilling water on us, trying to get to these two, you know, illustrious men." Obama said that she saw Malone across the table and felt a kindred spirit, saying, "She had the same look on her face as I did, like, 'Here we go.'" She added that they exchanged a look that said, "You see this? Like, this is crazy, isn't it, girl?" They soon became friends. Obama also spoke about "the fight to protect women's reproductive health" beyond abortion. "Sadly, it has been reduced to 'choice,'" Obama said. "The question of 'choice.' And it's as if that's all of what women's health is. That's the only thing. And as I attempted to make the argument on the campaign trail, this past election, was that there's just so much more at stake." She also called out men for not knowing enough about women's reproductive health. "So many men have no idea about what women go through, right," Obama said. "We haven't been researched. We haven't been considered. And it still affects the way a lot of male 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." "This whole complicated reproductive system that does - the least of what it does is produce life," Obama said. "It's a very important thing that it does. But you only produce life if the machine that's producing it … is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way. But there is no discussion or apparent connection between the two."
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Eric Holder: 'They're trying to intimidate people'
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder joins MSNBC's Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss the Trump administration's response to Newark New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka's arrest outside of an ICE facility, the current state of the Department of Justice, the Alabama voting maps, and the aquittal of the three former Memphis police officers in the Tyre Nichols' case.
