The Obamas—both Barack and his America-hating, thankless, bitter spouse Michelle—have been poisoning the American landscape for years. Two days ago, Michelle made these astounding comments about abortion:
I attempted to make the argument on the campaign trail this past election that there’s just so much more at stake because so many men have no idea what women go through. We haven’t been researched, we haven’t been considered, 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. It’s about this whole complicated reproductive system. … 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 whittle us down to a machine—if the machine is functioning. But there is no discussion or apparent connection between the two.
She begins by conveniently erasing the voices of women who oppose the legalized slaughter of preborn humans in their mothers’ wombs, focusing solely on “men” whom she asserts “have no ideas what women go through.” Presumably, she’s claiming male politicians and male religious leaders have no idea—zip, zero, nada—of what women go through during pregnancy and childbirth.
While men can’t experience pregnancy and childbirth, many men—especially men with children—have a fairly good idea what their wives have gone through during pregnancy and childbirth. Married politicians and religious leaders as well as men from all walks of life who have children have watched their wives vomit from “morning” sickness and endure the excruciating pangs of childbirth. Husbands have worried about and prayed for their wives as they suffered from nausea, sometimes for an entire pregnancy. Husbands have quietly wept as their wives cried out in pain during childbirth.
Why did Michelle focus solely and disingenuously on men? Why didn’t she mention the thousands of women young and old who abhor the legalized killing of preborn humans? Why didn’t she acknowledge that women who have borne children and women who have not borne children are on the frontlines of the battle to save the lives of the least among us?
She likely mentions only men because doing so fits the leftist myth that men are ignorant, callous, oppressors with conservative men at the tiptop of the neanderthal list. How could Michelle make the argument that ignorance of “what women go through” is the reason for opposition to abortion if she admitted that thousands of women oppose abortion?
Childless butchy cat ladies don’t know what women go through in pregnancy and childbirth either. Maybe if they did, maybe if they gestated a baby in their wombs, suffered through childbirth, and held their own child in their arms, maybe then some would recognize the evil in exterminating tiny humans before they have a chance to take their first breath.
What Michelle refers to as “choice” is the volitional decision of an adult to order the death of her own child. It’s not so benign when non-euphemistic language is used.
Michelle slipped up and called the person at the center of abortion a “baby.” Oopsie. Speaking the quiet part aloud is verboten by those who claim to have the right to decide which lives are worthy of life.
After that rhetorical slip, she made the astonishing claim that “women’s reproductive health is about our life.” Translated into plain English, Michelle said, “abortion is about our life.” Mmm, not quite. Abortion is about the presumed quality of mothers’ lives. It’s about the presumed quality of the future lives of their offspring. It’s about the subjective desires of women.
But abortion is about the literal life of already conceived, developing, unique human beings. It is about the destruction of that life—the injection of drugs to stop the beating of a human heart, the poisoning of a human body, the yanking off of human limbs, the suctioning out of a human brain.
Those men and women who sanction and cheer for abortion have no idea what these humans go through as their lives are deliberately extinguished.
But Michelle’s claim about male ignorance and the supreme value of women’s desires had competition for the prize of most despicable thing she said. These words reverberated across the country, particularly among women:
The least of what [women’s reproductive system] does is produce life.
For many, perhaps most, women, the apex of womanhood, the most sacred capacity of the female body, is its ability to produce life. There is not greater blessing, privilege, and honor for women than to be able to nurture a new human life inside their wombs, to know their bodies feed their babies, to feel their babies poke and whirl, to anticipate the day they will meet face to angelic face. We call it the miracle of childbirth for a reason. “Miraculous” is about as close to the ineffable experience of creating new life as words can get.
But not for the unwomanly Michelle Obama who has whittled motherhood down to a cog in the female machine. What a sorry message for America’s girls.