Michelle Obama makes bizarre pro-abortion argument: The 'least' of what the female body does 'is produce life'



Former first lady Michelle Obama appealed to pro-abortion Americans by claiming a woman's reproductive system is not primarily intended for bearing children.

On her podcast, "IMO," Mrs. Obama and her guests discussed an alleged bias against women among lawmakers and the pharmaceutical industry, leading to a discussion in support of abortion on demand.

'So many men have no idea about what women go through. Right? We haven't been researched. We haven't been considered.'

Co-host Craig Robinson kicked off the festivities by asking guest Dr. Sharon Malone, an ob-gyn, where women should go to get "proper information" regarding reproductive care, in vitro fertilization, menopause, and more. This related to Obama, as she suffered a miscarriage in the late 1990s and later used IVF to conceive her daughters, Malia and Sasha.

Without answering the question, the doctor immediately shifted to accusing the pharmaceutical industry of not advancing products for women out of bias, "because there's no money to be made" there.

This set Obama off on a tangent about abortions, during which she claimed a lack of investment has led to difficult decisions for pregnant women.

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"So many men have no idea about what women go through. Right? We haven't been researched," Obama claimed.

"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."

The explanation fell short of a compelling argument, however, with Obama saying that producing children is actually the "least" important function of a woman's reproductive system.

"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 wanna, you know, whittle us down to a machine — is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way."

She added, "But there is no discussion or apparent connection between the two."

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US President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, and daughters Malia and Sasha walk to board Air Force One at Cape Cod Air Force Station in Massachusetts on August 21, 2016. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images

Blaze News spoke to Emily Erin Davis, VP of communications for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, who said hearing Obama's comments was "heartbreaking."

"It's sad to see someone who once represented our country speak about women and children this way," Davis said. "Comments like these don't just devalue motherhood — they devalue womanhood itself."

Similarly, Blaze News' Rebeka Zeljko described Obama's remarks as "absurd" and "damaging to women."

"Many women regard motherhood as their greatest, most fulfilling accomplishment. The only people who 'whittle us down to a machine' are those who dehumanize unborn children and equate an abortion with taking a Tylenol."

After Obama's obscure explanation about women's bodies, Dr. Malone asserted that a woman must "have control over her body, when and if to have a baby, and to decide how that pregnancy should continue."

The doctor insisted she was not referring to abortion, however, and said she was referring only to a miscarriage or when the mother's life is in danger.

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Trump judge kills Biden requirement that employers accommodate workers' efforts to abort their unborn children



A federal judge killed a controversial Biden Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rule and guidance on Wednesday that both required employers to provide paid leave and other accommodations to employees seeking abortion and restricted their ability to take adverse employment actions against employees' who demanded such accommodations.

U.S. District Judge David Joseph of the Western District of Louisiana, a Trump appointee, ruled that the EEOC "exceeded its statutory authority" when implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and, "in doing so, both unlawfully expropriated the authority of Congress and encroached upon the sovereignty of the Plaintiff States [Louisiana and Mississippi] under basic principles of federalism."

The ruling was in response to consolidated litigation.

The first case was brought by the states of Louisiana and Mississippi, both of which passed near-total abortion bans in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs decision, on May 13, 2024. The states argued that the Biden regulation violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution.

The second case was filed later that month by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty on behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catholic University of America, and two Catholic dioceses. The plaintiffs argued that the rule not only exceeded congressional authority but required them to knowingly violate their sincerely held beliefs about the "moral evil" of abortion by abetting their employees' efforts to kill their unborn children.

Timothy Broglio, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, noted in an op-ed last May that the original PWFA passed in 2022 was cause for celebration as its "purpose was laudable and obvious: to expand protections for pregnant women in the workplace."

'States have many legitimate interests in regulating abortion, including "respect for and preservation of prenatal life at all stages of development."'

Broglio noted, however, that the Biden EEOC "subverted the law's noble goal by turning it into an abortion-accommodation mandate. That is unjust and illegal."

Louisiana and Mississippi similarly suggested the PWFA had been hijacked, noting the Biden EEOC's "Final Rule not only runs roughshod over the PWFA's text, but also runs afoul of Dobbs."

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Guy Edward Bartkus. Image Source: FBI. American Reproductive Centers. Photo by GABRIEL OSORIO/AFP via Getty Images

"There, the Supreme Court expressly recognized that the States have many legitimate interests in regulating abortion, including 'respect for and preservation of prenatal life at all stages of development,'" the states said in their original complaint. "But the Final Rule contravenes Dobbs by requiring the Plaintiff States to accommodate the very types of abortions that they have chosen, in their sovereign capacities, to proscribe — or else face federal lawsuits for money damages and injunctive relief."

In June, Judge Joseph consolidated the cases and enjoined the EEOC from enforcing its abortion mandate against the Catholic plaintiffs as well as employers located in the two red states.

Joseph torpedoed the abortion accommodation and ordered that any implementing regulations or guidance requiring or suggesting to employees that they are required to provide employees with accommodation for purely elective abortions "are also hereby VACATED and immediately without effect."

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill celebrated the ruling, calling it a "win for Louisiana and for life!"

"This court's decision to deny workers reasonable accommodations for abortion-related needs is part of a broader attack on women's rights and reproductive freedom," said Inimai Chettiar, president of A Better Balance, a liberal activist group that previously opposed President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominees and championed the passage of the regulation. "This court's sudden decision to rewrite those regulations upends workers' and employers' understanding of and reliance on settled precedent."

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The left’s war on the family is real — and Hillary Clinton proved it yet again



In a recent video clip, former first lady Hillary Clinton said the quiet part out loud — confirming what conservatives have long believed: Those on the left see the family as a right-wing institution, and they want to replace it.

Speaking at the 92nd Street YMCA in New York City, Clinton mocked efforts by Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance to encourage Americans to have children, sneering that this role should be left to illegal immigrants. This isn’t just a policy spat; it’s a glimpse into the left’s deeply held religious belief that the family is the problem. And if we let it, that agenda will destroy us.

The left’s war on life and family is not metaphorical. It is real, and it is violent.

The left hates the family because it despises everything God stands for. Leftists' agenda is destruction — not creation — and the family is ground zero.

The bombing of a fertility clinic on Saturday in Palm Springs, California, is a violent testament to this hatred. The attacker’s alleged manifesto openly declared a “war on the pro-lifers” Why such hostility toward those who protect life? Because the left is anti-life. Leftists oppose the unborn, the elderly, and the nuclear family. They target anything and anyone who dares to affirm that life is a sacred gift from God.

One chilling line from the manifesto reads, “We must finally begin the process of sterilizing this planet of the disease of life.” It could not be clearer what the agenda is.

The left’s secular cult

This only makes sense if we understand that the left’s secular humanist and Marxist worldview is demonic in nature. Secular means leftists reject God and divine law entirely, so they must hate everything that God values. In the absence of God, their humanism leads them to establish themselves as rulers, taking God’s place and seeking every hedonistic impulse.

Marxism, finally, is the ideological engine behind their destruction — it cannot build, only tear down.

This worldview is evident in their push to indoctrinate children into radical gender ideology and the LGBTQ sex cult. By promoting gender confusion and sexual immorality, the left seeks to prevent children from becoming healthy adults capable of forming families. The family is, after all, the bedrock of any nation. It is the place where values are transmitted and where identities are formed. That’s precisely why the left must destroy it. Leftists want to erase that identity and replace it with a sterile, fragmented one — incapable of bearing children, incapable of passing on faith, culture, or tradition.

So when Hillary Clinton says they want to replace the traditional family with other models foreign to our values, believe her.

A call to action

But we are not without hope. It is our sacred duty to worship God faithfully in our churches, homes, and daily lives. We must marry, have children, and raise them to do the same. This is not just a personal decision; it's a stand against the forces of darkness. In Genesis 1:28, God commands: “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it." We must obey this divine mandate.

We must also remember the greatness of our ancestors and the works God has done. Just as the Israelites raised stones of remembrance, we must look back and not forget what God has done for us.

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We read in Joshua 4:6-7: "We will use these stones to build a memorial. In the future your children will ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ Then you can tell them, ‘They remind us that the Jordan River stopped flowing when the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant went across.’ These stones will stand as a memorial among the people of Israel forever.”

God has already performed great works in establishing our nation. Many battles have been won. But the work is not finished.

The bombing of the fertility clinic is a grim reminder of the stakes. The left's war on life and family is not metaphorical. It is real, and it is violent. Leftists seek to eliminate any opposition to their anti-life, anti-family agenda.

But we shouldn’t be intimidated. We must continue to build strong families, pass on our values, and defend the sanctity of life. Only then can we hope to preserve the nation that our forefathers fought so hard to establish. The family is not just a social unit; it is a divine institution, and its preservation is our highest calling.

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Fertility clinic bombing suspect declared war on 'pro-lifers' in alleged manifesto



A fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, was the apparent target of a car bomb on Saturday.

The FBI identified Guy Edward Bartkus, who was killed in the explosion, as the suspect in the attack.

'I think we need a war against pro-lifers.'

Akil Davis, the assistant director of the FBI's Los Angeles field office, stated that the incident appeared to be "an intentional act of violence." Davis also referred to the attack as "terrorism," linking the suspect to "nihilistic ideations."

"This was a targeted attack against the [in-vitro fertilization] facility," Davis said. "Make no mistake: We are treating this, as I said yesterday, as an intentional act of terrorism."

Interim U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli confirmed that the explosion was intentional.

"My office along with the FBI will be leading the terrorism investigation into this incident. Federal prosecutors and special agents are on scene," Essayli said. "We do not believe there is any further threat to the public at this time. We will release as much information as possible that does not jeopardize our active investigation."

The explosion, which occurred in the facility's parking lot, caused significant damage to American Reproductive Centers and nearby buildings. Bartkus, 25, died in the blast, and at least four others were injured. No embryos were destroyed, according to the clinic.

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American Reproductive Centers stated in part, "We are immensely grateful to share that no members of the ARC team were harmed, and our lab — including all eggs, embryos, and reproductive materials — remains fully secure and undamaged. We are heavily conducting a complete safety inspection and have confirmed that our operations and sensitive medical areas were not impacted by the blast."

The FBI believes that Bartkus had planned to livestream the attack. It is currently investigating "a possible manifesto."

In an alleged online manifesto, the suspect shared his anti-natalist beliefs.

"The end goal is for the truth (Efilism) to win, and once it does, we can finally begin the process of sterilizing this planet of the disease of life," it reportedly read. "Life can only continue as long as people hold the delusional belief that it is not a zero sum game causing senseless torture, and messes it can never, or only partially, clean up."

"I think we need a war against pro-lifers," it added.

The alleged manifesto also encouraged viewers to "download the recorded stream of my suicide & bombing of an IVF clinic."

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On Sunday, KTLA spoke with Bartkus’ father, Richard Bartkus, who claims he had not spoken with his son for over a decade.

He claimed that his son had a history of setting fires, including burning down their family home at 9 years old.

“What my [former] wife, what my daughter knows, I really don’t know. But they had to see a change in him. They don’t just go off like that and nobody sees a change,” he told KTLA.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that she had been briefed about the attack.

“We are working to learn more, but let me be clear: the Trump administration understands that women and mothers are the heartbeat of America. Violence against a fertility clinic is unforgivable,” she wrote in a post on X.

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