Actress Sharon Stone said Wednesday that if men could get pregnant, abortion access would look very different — joking that people “could get an abortion from a vending machine.” She made the remark during an appearance on Michelle Obama’s podcast, “IMO.”
Stone, 68, used the episode to speak publicly about having an abortion at age 18, which she had kept private. She described how little she and her partner at the time understood about contraception.
“He didn’t have any knowledge or information that I should have some kind of birth control,” Stone said. “And I had no…like when I tell you I could have been the girl who gave birth in the bathroom stall.”
Stone recalled that her parents assumed her weight gain at the time was simply the “freshman 15.” She then turned to criticizing what she sees as efforts to limit medical care for women.
“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?” Stone said.
That led to her vending machine comment, which Obama responded to by laughing and suggesting 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 that advocating for strong medical care for women does not require minimizing the value of unborn children.
“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,” Echevarria said.
Kelsey Pritchard, communications director for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, offered a sharper response.
“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.
The podcast appearance came just days after Stone addressed a separate controversy involving actress Sydney Sweeney’s ad for a sports prediction platform, telling People magazine it was Sweeney’s own responsibility to account for her choices rather than hers to judge them.
