Co-hosts of the daytime talk show The View criticized conservative influencer Isabel Brown on Monday following remarks she made at the Conservative Political Action Conference encouraging young women to prioritize marriage and having children, as reported [1] by Fox News.
Brown, 28, who is the mother of a 1-year-old, spoke at CPAC and said it was “high time” to begin “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.”
She also suggested that decisions such as leaving dating apps, avoiding birth control pills, and getting married “ultimately trickle down into the political policies that we will see save our country.”
The comments drew reactions from multiple hosts on “The View,” including Whoopi Goldberg, who responded to the clip by referencing past criticism directed at women.
“Years ago, they used to come after women of color and accuse women of color of doing this very thing,” Goldberg said, before repeatedly saying, “What!”
Co-host Sara Haines also objected to Brown’s remarks, stating, “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.”
She added, “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.”
Haines continued, “They act like people are sitting around just saying yeah, ‘No, I’m good.’ 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.”
She also said, “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.”
Co-host Ana Navarro questioned the focus on women, saying, “But also where is the call to responsibility for the men who make — who help make these children? 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.”
Guest host Whitney Cummings also weighed in, saying, “If your marriage requires courage, I have a lot of questions about your husband.”
Cummings added, “Wait ’til 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.”
Co-host Sunny Hostin raised concerns about financial challenges, saying, “I think it’s really reckless to be suggesting that people should have more children when you now know in this country there’s this affordability crisis.”
She added that a two-person household would need to earn over $400,000 annually for childcare to be affordable and said, “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.”
And if you just can’t help yourself in the meantime & want to grab some popcorn – here’s the whole segment of 5 grown women screeching about how I am the “stupidest” person on the Internet, who should divorce my husband, and probably never should have become a mom in the first… pic.twitter.com/ijm2z8MxfV [2]
— Isabel Brown (@theisabelb) March 30, 2026 [3]
In response to the criticism, Brown defended her remarks in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.
“I’m truly sad for the hate and contempt ‘The View’ shows toward one of the most beautiful things about womanhood. Their godless, anti-human propaganda is heartbreaking, but in today’s society, sadly not shocking,” Brown said.
She continued, “They shriek like demons at the simple, joyful, timeless truth that young women should want to get married and have babies. Family is the greatest threat to their ideology, and they know it.”
Brown concluded, “Young Americans — reject this with all your heart!”