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Yeah, Jill Biden is the “doctor,” not Michelle Obama, but all of our leftist moral superiors are just brimming with wise guidance about how we should live our lives and behave toward others, and the celebrated spouse of the Democrats’ great three-term president of the twenty-first century is no different. Michelle Obama has just held forth on the nature and purpose of the human reproductive system, and while her insights are somewhat bewildering, she is revered by establishment media “journalists” everywhere, so she must know what she’s talking about, right?
Fox News explained Saturday that it all happened on the latest episode of the sparsely-traveled podcast that the former first lady co-hosts with her brother, “IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson.” During the show, Michelle indulged in one of her favorite pastimes: complaining. She lamented that women’s reproductive health “has been reduced to the question of choice.” That is lamentable indeed, as the choice in question is one between allowing a child to live and grow or murdering that child, but that, of course, is not what Michelle meant.
Obama stated: “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.” That is a complaint women have had throughout history, and so it’s reasonable enough on the face of it for Michelle to repeat it, but here again, she didn’t mean what many other women have meant when they said that men didn’t realize what they went through.
This is where Obama took a sharp turn into crazyville. “Women’s reproductive health,” she explained, “is about our life. It’s about this whole complicated reproductive system that the least of what it does is produce life.” Wait a minute. How’s that again? Women’s reproductive health is about the lives of the women in question, but producing life is the least important thing that the reproductive system does?
It might have been helpful if Michelle Obama had bothered to explain what exactly she thought the reproductive system was there to do besides reproduce, but instead she went on to expatiate about the importance of women’s health: “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.” No one wants to “whittle” Michelle Obama, but in any case, it’s a shame that she never got around to saying what the female reproductive system should be doing besides producing life.
If she had done so, we might have gotten a glimpse into the mindset of those who insist that it is a fundamental right of a woman to kill her child in the womb, and who have the demonic audacity to call this killing “women’s reproductive health.” It does seem as if protecting abortion was what Michelle Obama had in mind, since she veered off from downplaying the reproductive system’s function of creating life into talking about the soundness of the reproductive “machine.” Apparently she thinks that this machine can only “produce life” under optimum circumstances if it can also opt not to produce life, and can choose to destroy the life it had already begun to produce.
Quite simply, that makes no sense whatsoever. It makes no logical sense and it certainly makes no moral sense. Another podcast host, Isabel Brown, commented: “Supposed ‘feminist icon’ & former First Lady Michelle Obama says the least important thing about your reproductive system is to… REPRODUCE. I am SO sick & tired of celebrities & elitists attempting to convince you that your miraculous superpower ability to GROW LIFE from nothing is somehow demeaning & “lesser than” for women… Pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood is hard… don’t get me wrong. But it is by far the most beautiful, rewarding, and bad**s thing I have ever done with my life. Don’t let miserable people convince you otherwise.”
Another X user said of Obama: “Her position is anti-science and anti-reality!” Yes, it is. Michelle Obama will, however, continue to be treated as a sage among leftists, and as a feminist oracle. As she continues to enjoy being lionized and celebrated everywhere, maybe one day she will deign to explain to us what the reproductive system is really for.
What ever happened with those Test Tube Babies we were Seeing Reading and Hearing so much about?
What ever happens with those Test-tube Babies we were Seeing, Reading and hearing so much about?
“The capacity to procreate is merely a potential which man is not obligated to actualize. The choice to have children or not is morally optional. Nature endows man with a variety of potentials—and it is his mind that must decide which capacities he chooses to exercise, according to his own hierarchy of rational goals and values….
the mere fact that man has the capacity to procreate, does not mean that it is his duty to commit spiritual suicide by making procreation his primary goal and turning himself into a stud-farm animal . . . .
To an animal, the rearing of its young is a matter of temporary cycles. To man, it is a lifelong responsibility—a grave responsibility that must not be undertaken causelessly, thoughtlessly or accidentally.
In regard to the moral aspects of birth control, the primary right involved is not the “right” of an unborn child, nor of the family, nor of society, nor of God. The primary right is one which—in today’s public clamor on the subject—few, if any, voices have had the courage to uphold: THE RIGHT OF MAN AND WOMAN TO THEIR OWN LIFE AND HAPPINESS—the right not to be regarded as the means to any end.” – Ayn Rand
Your mom should have taken Rand’s advice. Your hatred for life always racks up the downvotes regularly.
If we actually followed Rand’s advice we wouldn’t have freaks like you running around. Well at least we don’t have her running around.
Must be tough to put all that energy of a true believer into a failed philosophy every day.
Faux-intellectual narcissists like THX 1138 and his fellow worshippers at the church of Ayn Rand are more to be pitied than reviled or condemned. Their cult-like indoctrination has blinded them to this simple truth: The atheism and amorality at the core of Rand’s Objectivism guarantee that any society implementing her vision will be a soulless, sterile wasteland. It will be a place of misery and despair bearing greater resemblance to Satan’s Kingdom than to her advertised secular-humanist paradise.
“Never mind the vicious nonsense of claiming that an embryo has a “right to life.” A piece of protoplasm has no rights—and no life in the human sense of the term. One may argue about the later stages of a pregnancy, but the essential issue concerns only the first three months. To equate a potential with an actual, is vicious; to advocate the sacrifice of the latter to the former, is unspeakable…. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living: the right of young people to set the course of their own lives. The task of raising a child is a tremendous, lifelong responsibility, which no one should undertake unwittingly or unwillingly. Procreation is not a duty: human beings are not stock-farm animals. For conscientious persons, an unwanted pregnancy is a disaster; to oppose its termination is to advocate sacrifice, not for the sake of anyone’s benefit, but for the sake of misery qua misery, for the sake of forbidding happiness and fulfillment to living human beings.” – Ayn Rand
Well, it looks like Randy and her followers won a pyrrhic victory of sorts. The issue is back in the states and the crazed pro-abortion crowd can have abortions as often as they want, as long as it’s in a blue state.
Eventually people like you will be gone as you will have aborted yourselves out of existence.
No one told me it was Ayn Rand week. I think I need a better calendar. Or maybe just a heads up a few days ahead of time so I can bring out the same old stale hors d’oeuvres that only the most dedicated are willing to consume.
Fortunately Ayn Rand Week ranks right up there now with Pride Month. Most of the Pride events are disappearing due a lack of funding and disinterest.
It would appear that THX’s obsession is just not catching on
“so many men have no idea about what women go through.”
So how would “Michael” know what women go through.
After the spiritual/moral law of God is overthrown, adherents descend into the abyss labeled by St. Paul, “the reprobate Mind”. Early 20th century social scientist Emile Durkheim’s study of suicide related the loss of an ethical core to the final act of the reprobate, the nihilist.
These leftist are afflicted by Durkheim’s condition of “anomie”. It’s a real thing.
Michelle doesn’t need to “explain to us what the reproductive system is really for”. She said everything she had to. The “reproductive life” for feminists has little or nothing to do with life, much less new life. They’re just not that interested.
And, no it’s not about the choice of carrying the baby to term or not. The only choice that matters is the “choice” to kill it. Michelle Obama and her fellow Democrats are a culture of death.
And that was the only point she needed to make.
So the main purpose of “the Reproductive System” is NOT to REPRODUCE? I’m waiting for the next world-shaking scientific missive from michelle to inform us that the main purpose of the circulatory system is NOT to circulate, nor the digestive system to digest? The main purpose of the excretory system is to NOT excrete waste? In Her case, the main purpose of her excretory system is to produce podcasts like hers.