Former First Lady Michelle Obama said on her podcast this week that giving birth is the “least” of what a woman’s reproductive system is for.
On her IMO Podcast, Mrs. Obama noted that male lawmakers and religious leaders who want to dictate what a woman can do with her body have no idea what all is involved in being a woman.
“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,” she said.
She added, “Women’s reproductive health is about our life. It’s about this whole complicated reproductive system that does — the least of what it does is produce life. 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, you know, whittle us down to a machine, if the machine is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way. But there is no discussion or apparent connection between the two.”
What Mrs. Obama said is absolutely true. Women are not just incubators. They are people, and they should have the same rights as men, despite what many on the political right would have you believe.
Reaction from conservatives to the former first lady’s comments were predictably harsh and utterly clueless.
Right-wingers are such damn snowflakes.
