Elizabeth Barcohana
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“This article is not about being pregnant. It is about a woman’s experience about knowing whether she is carrying a viable healthy pregnancy.”
Elizabeth Barcohana · said 2026-09-17 · reported 2026-09-17
Barcohana said the article is about a woman's experience of knowing whether her pregnancy is viable.
“She tried to talk about something totally legitimate for women trying to start a family, and they [editors] hijacked it.”
Elizabeth Barcohana · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-17
Barcohana said the author tried to discuss something legitimate for women starting a family and editors hijacked it.
“A woman cannot be ‘a little bit pregnant.’ Pregnancy is a physical, biological state that begins when a fertilized embryo implants in the uterus and triggers a chemical hormonal reaction,”
Elizabeth Barcohana · said 2026-09-17 · reported 2026-09-17
Barcohana said in a statement to Fox News Digital that pregnancy is a physical, biological state beginning with embryo implantation.
“The New Yorker’s editors betrayed the author with this provocative headline, because what she’s really talking about — in a vulnerable way that millions of women can empathize with — is the utility and impact on women of unreliable early testing,”
Elizabeth Barcohana · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-17
Barcohana said The New Yorker's editors betrayed the author with a provocative headline.
“She seems happy that her daughters’ childhoods are over. That is not a relatable feeling for most mothers at all,”
Elizabeth Barcohana · said 2026-08-28 · reported 2026-08-28
Barcohana added that Obama's apparent happiness about her daughters' childhoods ending was not relatable for most mothers.
“There is a difference between a mother expressing exhaustion from the demands of motherhood — which is real and relatable — and expressing resentment,”
Elizabeth Barcohana · said 2026-08-28 · reported 2026-08-28
Barcohana told Fox News Digital that Obama's podcast remarks about not missing motherhood conveyed resentment amid a national debate over motherhood.
“Resentment is what appears to come through in Michelle Obama’s remarks, and it is especially painful to hear amid the national conversation surrounding the Lindsay Clancy trial.”
Elizabeth Barcohana · said 2026-08-28 · reported 2026-08-28
Barcohana said Obama's remarks were especially painful given the national conversation surrounding the Lindsay Clancy trial.