The View Attacks Conservative Woman Telling Women to Marry, Have Kids

Nicholas Fondacaro
March 30th, 2026 4:02 PM

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During a time when ABC’s The View was going through their rolodex of their pre-approved “conservative” and “Republican” women since their main faker, Alyssa Farah Griffin was out on maternity leave, the old crones lashed out during Monday’s episode because an actual young conservative woman was telling women to get married and have kids.

“I don't even know how to explain this story but I'm going to tell you what happened,” moderator Whoopi Goldberg declared. “The Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, wrapped up this weekend and conservative activist Isabel Brown had a message for her fellow Gen Z women who reportedly are the least likely group in America to get married and have kids.”

They then played this cherry-picked soundbite of Daily Wire podcaster Isabel Brown from a CPAC panel discussion:

If you're not encouraging your children to grow up and have the courage to get married and have kids, more kids than they can afford before they think they're ready, it is high time to start. It is these choices like deleting our dating apps and quitting birth control pills and saying I do at the altar that ultimately trickle down into the political policies that we will see save our country.

Goldberg, who had one kid, put on her white-girl-mocking voice (think ditzy valley girl accent) and lashed out at Brown with accusations hinting she was some kind of hypocrite because of what other people had said in the past about welfare queens.

“Okay. I just want to say, years ago they used to come after women of color and accuse women of color of doing this very thing. And that's why they continued to cut all these programs and erase all these things,” she chided.

Goldberg rage inexplicable rage at Brown quickly grew until she was just screaming “what” at the top of her lungs: "And now, had I known that it turns out we are all just one group of women, we're just one group -- I mean, WHAT?! Because what is she -- WHAT THE -- WHAT?! WHAT?! WHAT?! WHAT?!"

 

 

With Goldberg losing her mind, pretend independent co-host Sara Haines had to step in to take over. Haines then proceeded to engage in revisionist history of feminism telling women not to marry and have kids:

So, my ultimate beef with this is that it wraps a woman's worth up in her ovaries in a way that for too long has happened. The whole women's movement was not about bucking the trend of staying at home or loving tradition. It was giving women a choice to do what they wanted. And that's what this is too. Marriage, children. It's a choice.

Haines also took on the anti-life position of whining about there being too many people on the planet and having a family was “the stupidest, most old fashion thing.” “The world has over 8 billion people! We no longer need to force people to procreate and pump out babies!” she shouted.

It’s worth noting that Haines was both married and had multiple kids.

Childless fake Republican Ana Navarro tried to apply the usual liberal trope response to pro-lifers, suggesting someone was trying to control “my uterus”:

But also where is the call to responsibility for the men who make -- who help make these children? Right? I don't know why it's always people lecturing women what they have to do or not to do. Bottom line, if you're not paying my bills, you don't get to tell me what I do with my uterus.

With two collage-age kids of her own, co-host Sunny Hostin proclaimed having kids in this day and age was “reckless.” She then went on to shriek about how most families were too poor to have kids (unlike her) because parents supposedly needed to make $400,000 a year to take care of a child. Navarro was skeptical (Click “expand”):

HOSTIN: I think it’s just really reckless to be suggesting that people should have more children when you now know in this country there's this affordability crisis and for a two-person household, a married household you need over $400,000 for childcare. Over $400,000. Most people don't make over $400,000.

So, she's advocating for people to be born into poverty, people not being able to feed those children, people not being able to educate those children, and people not being able to house those children at the same time when this government is cutting all of the services that would allow people to have families and big families.

[Crosstalk]

NAVARRO: $400,000 over the lifetime of a child or what?

HOSTIN: No. No.

NAVARRO: A year?!

HOSTIN: A year. It’s an annual income exceeding $400,000 to afford childcare.

NAVARRO: Okay, that’s got to be in New York.

HOSTIN: No. It's all over the country. According to LendingTree analysis.

Of course, Hostin was misrepresenting that LendingTree analysis.

 

 

That analysis was for one child but for a family with two kids. “Under federal guidelines, child care is considered affordable when it accounts for no more than 7% of household income. With average annual costs for care of an infant and a 4-year-old reaching $28,190, a family would need to earn $402,708 a year to stay within that benchmark. However, typical two-child households earn just $145,656, falling far short of what affordability standards suggest,” they wrote.

“And perhaps Isabel, you want to talk to some of those red states about some of their laws about women because they're not really encouraging women to do anything except flee from them,” Goldberg sniped as she was going to a commercial break.

Interestingly, LendingTree had more information. Most of the top 10 “states with the biggest discrepancies between average incomes, amount needed to afford child care” were blue states. The full top 10 list included: Hawaii, Nebraska, Montana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Maine, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Vermont. The states with the “smallest discrepancies” were all red states.

Goldberg and the latest purported conservative filling in for Farah Griffin, Whitney Cummings mocked Brown for telling woman to have more kids when she only had one at the time. Cummings also suggested that Brown’s husband was abusive and suggested Brown needed to turn to LegalZoom for help with a divorce.

The View could have had Brown on the program to discuss her point of view in person, but the show refuses to invite Republicans not critical of the party or leadership.

“I’d like to thank the women of @TheView for showing their truest, darkest colors today: they’re literally shrieking like demons at the thought of encouraging young women to have children,” Brown responded to their criticism in a thread on X. “They want you to hate happy, healthy, fulfilled young people with kids. Even more disturbingly, they want you to hate babies so much that you never want them in the first place.”

 

 

It’s worth noting that last year, The View ghouls decried President Trump’s plan to increase America’s birth rate and literally applauded rising abortion rates.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
March 30, 2026
11:17:02 a.m. Eastern

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: All right. Welcome back. I don't even know how to explain this story but I'm going to tell you what happened. The Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, wrapped up this weekend and conservative activist Isabel Brown had a message for her fellow Gen Z women who reportedly are the least likely group in America to get married and have kids. But I want you to see this.

[Cuts to video]

ISABEL BROWN: If you're not encouraging your children to grow up and have the courage to get married and have kids, more kids than they can afford before they think they're ready, it is high time to start.

It is these choices like deleting our dating apps and quitting birth control pills and saying I do at the altar that ultimately trickle down into the political policies that we will see save our country.

[Cuts back to live]

GOLDBERG: [In a mocking voice] Okay. I just want to say, years ago they used to come after women of color and accuse women of color of doing this very thing. And that's why they continued to cut all these programs and erase all these things.

SUNNY HOSTIN: Child care programs.

GOLDBERG: Name it. Name it. And now, had I known that it turns out we are all just one group of women, we're just one group -- I mean, WHAT?! Because what is she -- WHAT THE -- WHAT?! WHAT?! WHAT?! WHAT?!

SARA HAINES: So, my ultimate beef with this is that it wraps a woman's worth up in her ovaries in a way that for too long has happened. The whole women's movement was not about bucking the trend of staying at home or loving tradition. It was giving women a choice to do what they wanted. And that's what this is too. Marriage, children. It's a choice. And by the way --

GOLDBERG: But be responsible for God's sakes.

HAINES: No, but be responsible. But the other thing is they act like people are sitting around just saying, 'yeah, no, I'm good.' Most women I know -- and some don't. But most women wanted to have children. They don't have them for other reasons. Most women I know if they had a great candidate or partner might want to be married. Maybe they don't.

The fact we keep putting this on women, that their only worth in society, politics, policy is if they produce a baby or have a husband is the stupidest, most old-fashioned thing! We have come too far! The world has over 8 billion people! We no longer need to force people to procreate and pump out babies! We have arrived here! Women now and girls now have a choice! Let them do that!

ANA NAVARRO: But also where is the call to responsibility for the men who make -- who help make these children? Right? I don't know why it's always people lecturing women what they have to do or not to do. Bottom line, if you're not paying my bills, you don't get to tell me what I do with my uterus.

WHITNEY CUMMINGS: I do feel like she doesn't even realize how goofy her point was because she said we need to teach our kids to have the courage to get married. If your marriage requires courage I have a lot of questions about your husband. We need to tell this woman about Legal Zoom and how easy it is to get out of it.

NAVARRO: Do remember these are the same people who support Donald Trump. That does take courage.

CUMMINGS: I gave our girl Isabel a little Google. She has a baby, she has a one year-old. Of course, she thinks everyone should have a lot of kids. She has a 1-year-old that sleeps all day. I also was thinking I'm going to have a bunch more kids. Wait till your kid is up and walking and you spend most of your day trying to get its shoes on. You're probably going to rethink how many kids you have.

(…)

11:21:06 a.m. Eastern

HOSTIN: I think it’s just really -

GOLDBERG: Reckless.

HOSTIN: - reckless to be suggesting that people should have more children when you now know in this country there's this affordability crisis and for a two-person household, a married household you need over $400,000 for childcare. Over $400,000. Most people don't make over $400,000.

So, she's advocating for people to be born into poverty, people not being able to feed those children, people not being able to educate those children, and people not being able to house those children at the same time when this government is cutting all of the services that would allow people to have families and big families.

[Crosstalk]

NAVARRO: $400,000 over the lifetime of a child or what?

HOSTIN: No. No.

NAVARRO: A year?!

HOSTIN: A year. It’s an annual income exceeding $400,000 to afford childcare.

NAVARRO: Okay, that’s got to be in New York.

HOSTIN: No. It's all over the country. According to LendingTree analysis. And finally, this woman makes $10,000 per speaking engagement, between $5,000 and $10,000 per speaking engagement. Maybe she can afford to do it but most people cannot.

GOLDBERG: But listen to what she's encouraging. She's saying don't have any thought about what you're doing. Yes, be thoughtful before you have a kid!

HOSTIN: Correct.

GOLDBERG: You should be thoughtful before you have a kid!

[Applause]

And perhaps Isabel, you want to talk to some of those red states about some of their laws about women because they're not really encouraging women to do anything except flee from them.

You're saying -- you're telling people to have as many babies as they want to. Again, I'm going to send you back into the past and I want you to look and see how people were treated. And then I want you to say you know what? Maybe this isn't the smartest idea because I only have one child. I don't have to deal with anything. Because I've got somebody who watches the kid because I noticed the kid wasn't on the thing with her!

It’s just - don’t - Look, if y'all are Gen Z, you know this ain't the one. This ain’t the one. Okay? We'll be right back.

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