On one of Michelle Obama’s recent podcasts, Grammy-winning singer Victoria Monét revealed that during her pregnancy, business colleagues encouraged her to abort her preborn daughter because motherhood would be “difficult.”
Key Takeaways:
- Victoria Monét recounted how, instead of receiving support, she experienced pushback from business associates after she announced her pregnancy in 2021.
- Monét said the experience only made her want to fight harder for her daughter.
- Three years after her daughter’s birth, Monét won several Grammy awards.
The Details:
Monét, an R&B singer who won several Grammys in 2024, shared her story on “IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson” last week. She explained that when she shared the news of her pregnancy with her business associates, she got crushing pushback.
“So when I got pregnant, I was an independent artist. I was working with this company called Platoon, working out of the UK. And when you’re an artist, though you’re a human, you’re technically the business,” Monét said on the podcast. “So, to have to explain to someone who is a partner in your business that your business may slow down because of pregnancy, is difficult, but it’s also something that you’re supposed to feel celebratory about.”
Shockingly, one associate went so far as to create a PowerPoint presentation for Monét detailing all the reasons (including the cost of childcare) the associate felt Monét should abort her daughter. Monét explained:
In retrospect, it was really, really disheartening. I had a person on my team, though the intentions were good, really, really hurt my feelings because they made a PowerPoint presentation to me about how difficult it will be for me.
And the finale of the presentation was, ‘what’s the rush?’ So, it felt like an encouragement to get an abortion.
So that was really, really hurtful.
Despite feeling discouraged by the encounter, she left the meeting more determined than ever to raise her daughter.
“And I walked out of that meeting… with that same fight that I had when I left home. I’m going to do this. It’s my body, and I’m going to make it work even if it’s hard,” she said.
Commentary:
On the campaign trail promoting Kamala Harris last year, Michelle Obama gave a speech claiming that both women’s and men’s lives and futures will be ruined without access to abortion.
“The devastating consequences of teen pregnancy won’t just be borne by young girls, but also by the young men who are the fathers,” Obama told the crowd. “They too will have their dreams of going to college; their entire future is totally upended by an unwanted pregnancy.”
This sort of remark sounds similar to the arguments made by Monét’s colleague — ‘what’s the rush?’
The problem with such sentiments is that…
- behavioral and life choices in alignment with one’s “entire future” should ideally be made before conceiving a child.
- even if a child is conceived in less than ideal circumstances, this doesn’t mean that someone’s “entire future” must be “totally upended.”
Many parents have found that giving birth to their children in imperfect circumstances changed them — and their lives and futures — for the better. Like Monét did.
Many mothers like Monét are fed the false lie that pursuing a career is impossible once a child is born. Actress Jamie Lynn Spears says she felt “relentless” pressure to abort her daughter, as did singer Sinead O’Connor.
While we may not get the future we’ve had planned out for ourselves, it’s a terrible thing to choose to end another human being’s life because we feel that person is standing in the way of our imagined “future.”
The Bottom Line:
Monét went on to prove the pro-abortion lies false. In fact, she won Grammy awards in 2024 — just three years after giving birth to daughter Hazel in 2021. Motherhood didn’t stop her from pursuing and achieving her dreams.
“She’s been the biggest blessing,” Monét told Obama and Robinson of her daughter. “I had these preconceived notions that having a child would suspend my career or make things even more difficult, but God just was like, ‘nope,’ but it’s been so fun.”
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