Former first lady Michelle Obama said that a woman’s unique ability to grow a human life inside her body is “the least of” what the reproductive system is for.
Obama, a prominent Democrat and supporter of abortion, discussed her thoughts during an episode of her “IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson” podcast on Wednesday.
The “Becoming” author said that the “frustrating thing” is that the issue “has been reduced to a question of choice, as if that’s all of what women’s health is.”
“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,” Obama said. “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…