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The View Faces Backlash for Controversial Remarks on Women’s Choice to Have Children

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The hosts of The View found themselves the target of ridicule by the Fox & Friends team on Tuesday morning. This came in response to how they reacted to comments made by a young conservative influencer, who emphasized the significance of starting a family.

During the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held in Grapevine, Texas, Isabel Brown, a 28-year-old influencer, addressed the crowd, urging them to encourage their children to embrace marriage and parenthood.

Brown suggested that young people should have “more kids than they can afford before they think they’re ready,” a statement that caught the attention of Whoopi Goldberg. She shared the clip with her co-hosts on the subsequent episode of the show.

Goldberg, known for her role in Ghost, responded with repeated exclamations of “What!” during Monday’s broadcast. Her colleagues, including Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and guest Whitney Cummings, also voiced their disagreement.

Sunny Hostin expressed concern over Brown’s remarks, questioning whether this approach leads to children being born into poverty and lacking essential resources like food, education, and housing.

Haines proclaimed the mindset ‘wraps a woman’s worth up in her ovaries.’ 

The following day, Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade, Lawrence Jones, and Rachel Campos-Duffy offered their own takes – before welcoming Brown to the broadcast herself. 

‘You heard it from “The View” – only rich people can have kids!’ Campos-Duffy said sarcastically. ‘That is the most elitist thing I have ever heard.’

The panelists shamed a prominent conservative for telling CPAC attendees that having kids is of high importance on Thursday, on Monday's edition of The View

 The panelists shamed a prominent conservative for telling CPAC attendees that having kids is of high importance on Thursday, on Monday’s edition of The View

Brian Kilmeade, Lawrence Jones, and Rachel Campos-Duffy tore into the hosts of The View on Tuesday's Fox & Friends a day later, on their broadcast

Brian Kilmeade, Lawrence Jones, and Rachel Campos-Duffy tore into the hosts of The View on Tuesday’s Fox & Friends a day later, on their broadcast

Jones asked: ‘What is Ana Navarro doing?’ – noting how the GOP strategist ‘spent decades in the Republican party.’

‘This is not some fringe message. We have been the pro-family party for years now,’ he added.

Navarro, the day before, told Brown: ‘Bottom line, if you’re not paying my bills, you don’t get to tell me what I do with my uterus.’

Brown, a Daily Wire host, joined Fox & Friends the following hour. She gave birth to her first child, a girl, last year.

“[That clip] was a very short two seconds of the greater conversation that we were having, clearly taken wildly out of context and with the intention to continue pushing the anti-family propaganda on the women of our generation that we saw spewed all over ‘The View’ yesterday,” she told Campos-Duffy, joining the broadcast remotely.

‘”Elitism” is the perfect word to describe just how out of touch these women are,’ Brown went on. ‘Most of them are married with children and worth millions upon millions of dollars, and they have the audacity to scream at you [while] wearing an $800 jacket.’

‘It’s always about choice for these people until that choice is the beauty and joy and the purpose of marriage and motherhood which, of course, we should be encouraging people to strive for,’ the pro-life activist added.

She equated having children to ‘the American dream.’

Isabel Brown, 28, made the remarks on-stage in Grapevine, Texas, the week before

Isabel Brown, 28, made the remarks on-stage in Grapevine, Texas, the week before

Panelists Sunny Hostin and Whitney Cummings did not take kindly to Brown's remarks

Panelists Sunny Hostin and Whitney Cummings did not take kindly to Brown’s remarks

Brown, who is a host for the Daily Wire, joined Campos-Duffy later on to slam the stars' take

Brown, who is a host for the Daily Wire, joined Campos-Duffy later on to slam the stars’ take

Look – the truth is, Rachel, we are claiming we live in the most empowered time for women in all of human history. 

And yet, the only level of empowerment they are willing to give you if you forego committing your life to your best friend and bringing new life in the world through the miracle of pregnancy and motherhood. 

‘It’s hard to imagine why they are so threatened by the idea of you being happy,’ she added.  

‘But, when you really start looking down at the political breakdown of all of this as well, the entire Democrat voter base is completely contingent upon unmarried, childless women who clearly are not happy and are looking to fulfill their life through government control rather than the stability of their family.’

‘I don’t know what young woman needs to hear this today, but I hope you’re not listening to the likes of these absolutely miserable elitists who want you to staymiserable on “The View,”‘ Brown ultimately concluded.. 

‘It takes courage to commit your life to another person and certainly in our culture today it takes courage to bring new life into the world. Be courageous. Dare to fall in love, to get married, have kids. 

‘Your legacy you will leave behind is infinitely more important in that area of your life than any paycheck you will ever collect from your employer.’

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