‘The View’ blasts Isabel Brown for her CPAC comments encouraging women to have children

Several co-hosts of “The View” took turns criticizing conservative activist Isabel Brown on Monday for her statement encouraging young women to have more children.

At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Brown, a 28-year-old activist and recent mother of a one-year-old, advised that “it’s time” to start “encouraging your kids to grow up and be brave enough to get married and have kids—more kids than they can afford before they think they’re ready.”

He pointed out that this is one of the many important decisions, such as getting out of dating programs, taking birth control pills, and saying “I do” at the altar, “which ends up in the political processes that we will see save our country.”

Fellow host Whoopi Goldberg, confused by the clip, countered, “Years ago they used to go after women of color and accuse women of color of doing this very thing,” before shouting “what!” repeatedly.

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“My final beef with this is that it puts a woman’s value on her ovaries in a way that hasn’t been done in a long time,” managing partner Sara Haines responded. “The whole women’s movement was not about ending the practice of staying at home or loving culture. It gave women the opportunity to choose to do what they want.”

“They act as if people always say yes, ‘No, I’m good,'” he continued. “The truth is that we keep putting this on women, that their only value in society, politics, policy is that if they raise a child or have a husband, it’s the stupidest, oldest thing.”

“The world has more than 8 billion people! We no longer need to force people to give birth and give birth. We have come here. Women and girls now have a choice,” he said.

“But where is the call for responsibility for the men who make – who help make these children?” asked Ana Navarro who hosts the show. “I don’t know why people always teach women what to do and what not to do. The bottom line is, if you don’t pay my bills, you can’t tell me what to do with my uterus.”

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Colleague Whoopi Goldberg said the conservative activist should be given time to rethink what he advises young women. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)

Guest Whitney Cummings joked that one doesn’t need “courage” to get married, saying, “If your marriage takes courage, I have a lot of questions about your husband.”

He went on to criticize Brown in particular, saying that according to his research, he has a one-year-old child where they sleep all day.

“Wait until your child is up and walking, and you’re spending most of the day trying to put their shoes on. You’re probably going to rethink how many kids you have,” Cummings said.

“I think it’s really reckless to suggest that people should have more children when you know now that this country has this unaffordability problem,” said Sunny Hostin, saying that a married, two-person family needs to make more than $400,000 a year to afford childcare.

“So you encourage people to be born in poverty, people who can’t feed those children, people who can’t educate those children and people who can’t house those children at the same time when this government closes all the requirements that allow people to have families and large families.

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Host Sunny Hostin argued that the conservative activist’s advice is setting people up to be born into poverty. (Gary Gershoff/Getty Images)

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Whoopi challenged Brown’s speech about encouraging young women to not hesitate to have families, and challenged her to go back and see if her views change.

Fox News Digital reached out to Brown and did not immediately receive a response.