Actress Sharon Stone said on Wednesday that if men could get pregnant, abortions would be as easy to obtain as a snack from a vending machine, a comment made during an appearance on Michelle Obama’s “IMO” podcast.
During the conversation, Stone, 68, recounted having an abortion she kept secret when she was 18, describing her lack of knowledge about birth control at the time. “He didn’t have any knowledge or information that I should have some kind of birth control,” she said. “And I had no…like when I tell you I could have been the girl who gave birth in the bathroom stall.”
Stone said her parents had assumed her weight gain at the time was simply the “freshman 15.” She went on to criticize current restrictions on reproductive health care.
“And now we don’t wanna give women care, OB-GYN care, and we wanna prosecute women for having a miscarriage? What kind of arcane b—–it is this?”
“If men got pregnant, you could get an abortion from a vending machine,” Stone added.
Obama laughed at the remark and suggested there would be a “birth Olympics” if men were the ones who got pregnant. “Exactly. If there would be the birth Olympics… men would film themselves going into labor and honoring their pain and, you know it would be…there would be trophies given, you know, ‘well done dude,’ ‘Bob, you did that without an epidural,'” Obama said.
Fox News Digital reached out to Stone’s representative for comment.
Pro-Life Groups Respond
Laura Echevarria, communications director and press secretary for National Right to Life, criticized Stone’s comments as dismissive of the stakes involved in abortion.
“Vending machines are about convenience. Abortion is about consequences— it ends the life of an unborn child and can profoundly impact the mother. Reducing abortion to something dispensed on demand doesn’t elevate women; it trivializes both women and their children,” Echevarria said.
She added, “We can and should advocate for excellent medical care for women without diminishing the value of their children. Women and their unborn children deserve compassion and support—not rhetoric that reduces abortion to the equivalent of purchasing a snack.”
Kelsey Pritchard, communications director for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, offered a similar critique. “The Democrats simply can’t defend their no-limits abortion-on-demand agenda, so they resort to cynical man-bashing. Small wonder their party has negative appeal to men. If they really believed their rhetoric, they would never allow dangerous abortion drugs to be sold anonymously online,” Pritchard said.
Stone’s podcast appearance came days after she addressed criticism of actress Sydney Sweeney over a provocative advertisement for a sports prediction platform, telling People: “I think that it’s up to her to take responsibility for her actions, not up to me to judge her for her actions. It is up to me to be a cheerleader for the women who have made it through and become champions in women’s sports.”
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