“The View” co-host Sara Haines said Wednesday that criticism of her earlier comments on marriage and motherhood had been “misconstrued,” responding to backlash tied to remarks made by Isabel Brown encouraging Gen Z women to prioritize marriage and having children.

“My ultimate beef with this is that it wraps a woman’s worth up in her ovaries,” Haines said on the “Behind the Table” podcast. “Marriage, children, it’s a choice … The world has over 8 billion people. We no longer need to force people to procreate and pump out babies. We have arrived here.”

The discussion came after the segment on the daytime talk show drew criticism online, particularly from Brown, who argued Haines’ remarks dismissed traditional family values.

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Sara Haines on “The View” on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. (Lou Rocco/ABC)

Haines said her intent was not to discourage marriage or motherhood, but to address what she described as societal pressure placed on women.

“My issue was with the greater message,” Haines said. “I love babies. I love being married. I love all those things. But there’s so much pressure in this world on women to define themselves by if they’re married and if they have babies.”

She said her perspective was informed by her own life experiences and those of women around her.

“My take comes from a place of empathy and life lived,” Haines said. “Knowing so many women, having been single, like dating for years and not knowing if I was going to find my person to get married.”

Haines said she believed the expectation that women can easily marry and have children does not reflect reality for many.

“They make it sound like this easy choice. Get married, have kids,” she said. “There are so many amazing women I know that aren’t meeting people.”

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Happy pregnant young woman touching her pregnant belly and standing by the window. (iStock)

She also pointed to challenges surrounding fertility and alternative paths to parenthood.

“So many people I know have struggled for some reason having babies,” Haines said. “Whether it was fertility — I’m friends with a lot of gay couples that have had to fight non-traditional surrogates, all these things.”

Haines said conversations about women frequently center on marital status and children.

“We ask women all the time about marriage and kids and that seems to be all they’re worth,” she said.

“The beauty of progress in time is that we don’t have to put that on people’s shoulders … You do what you can and what you want because you have a life beyond that.”

Haines said she believed her comments had been taken out of context by some conservative figures.

“I refuse to read it because right when I saw some of the headlines, I thought, here we go again,” Haines replied.

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Isabel Brown, host of “The Isabel Brown Show” appears on the Fox News Channel on Mar. 31, 2026. (Fox & Friends/Screengrab)

“Conservative influencers have kind of misconstrued what you guys were saying on the show and what the point of it is,” podcast host and “The View” executive producer Brian Teta said. 

“I definitely think she misconstrued — whether that was willful or ignorance, she’s missing my whole point,” Haines said, referring to Brown.

Haines reiterated that her comments were meant to affirm women regardless of their life circumstances.

“I know too many women that, for whatever reason, aren’t married, don’t have kids, and they matter,” she said. “I would never want to dim someone’s light in life by saying they matter less because of that.”

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Fox News Digital reached out to Isabel Brown and The Daily Wire for comment, but did not immediately hear back.

A crazed man was shot by police after wielding a 13-inch kitchen knife outside a grocery store, the New York Police Department said.

“Once again, we are reminded of the dangers that our officers confront every time they put on their uniform. And this morning was no different,” Inspector Andrew Natiw, the executive officer of the Patrol Bureau of Manhattan North, said in a Monday morning news conference.

According to the NYPD, on Monday at 1:15 a.m., a 53-year-old got into a verbal fight with another person inside the City Fresh Market on East 120th Street and Third Avenue.

Multiple employees had to physically remove him from the store after he became “irate and disorderly,” the NYPD said. The man returned to the store a short time later with a large kitchen knife in his hand, banging on the window, according to police.

At approximately 1:44 a.m., officers from the 25th Precinct responded to 120th St and 3rd Ave. for a police-involved shooting with a suspect who seemed to be armed with a large kitchen knife who was seen on a nearby supermarket’s surveillance camera menacing workers prior to his confrontation with police. (Video by Dakota Santiago (FreedomNewsTV))

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Surveillance video captured the man wielding a 13-inch knife, yelling, pressing against the store’s glass, police said.

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Employees locked the door and called 911 just after 1:30 a.m. 

When officers arrived, they told the man to drop the knife multiple times, but he “quickly advanced toward the officers with the knife extended out.”

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Police shot a 53-year-old man armed with a 13-inch knife in East Harlem early Monday. (NYPD NEWS)

Authorities said that one of the officers shot the suspect and immediately requested EMS and rendered aid to the 53-year-old suspect.

The suspect, they said, was removed to Harlem Hospital where he went into surgery, and is in critical but stable condition.

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Police recovered a 13-inch kitchen knife outside an East Harlem grocery store after they say a man charged officers with it. (WNYW)

The NYPD declined to provide a name of the suspect. Police said the man has a history of prior arrests and was known to law enforcement.

Investigators recovered approximately seven shell casings at the scene. The incident remains under investigation.

A Wisconsin sheriff‘s deputy sifting through money taken from an illegal immigrant suspect arrested on drug charges became ill when she was hit in the face with airborne powdered fentanyl and cocaine, authorities said. 

The exposure happened when Jose Fredy Rodriguez Acuna, 25, of Portage, was being booked into the jail on March 31, the Columbia County Sheriff’s office said. 

Acuna had been arrested earlier that day during a traffic stop. While he was being booked into the jail, deputies were taking inventory of Acuna’s belongings, authorities said.

“While manipulating US Currency taken from the subject, she unfolded a bill which contained a powdery substance,” said Columbia County Sheriff Roger Brandner. “The powdery substance became airborne directly into the face of the deputy causing an exposure.”

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Jose Fredy Rodriguez Acuna, 25, was arrested in Wisconsin on drug charges. A deputy became sick when she was hit in the face with airborne powdered cocaine and fentanyl from money belonging to Acuna, authorities said. (Getty Images; Columbia County Sheriff’s Office)

The deputy suffered a “medical event” and needed immediate care, authorities said. Other deputies administered Narcan, an over-the-counter nasal spray or injection that rapidly reverses opioid overdoses, on the sick deputy.

A deputy suffered a “medical event” after being exposed to alleged powdered cocaine and fentanyl. (iStock)

The deputy was taken to a hospital and was expected to make a full recovery. 

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The powdered substance tested positive for cocaine and fentanyl, the sheriff’s office said.  Last week, Acuna was charged with possession of cocaine and possession of narcotic drugs. 

He was ordered held on a $1,000 cash bond. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer request with the sheriff’s office and he was taken into federal custody.

A close-up image of a pill press machine in New York on June 24, 2024. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters)

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Brandner noted that people arrested for drug offenses often conceal drugs and paraphernalia in their belongings during the intake process.

“The danger doesn’t stop on the street, and our jail staff must be prepared for his danger,” he said. “?Our staff did a fantastic job identifying and responding to this life-threatening emergency. We are thankful that the deputy will be able to recover.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to ICE.

High-level sources have informed Fox News that during rescue efforts in Iran after a U.S. fighter jet was shot down, the commander of U.S. Central Command directed an attack against an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps headquarters in an underground facility.

While the airman rescue was going on, CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper directed a strike on an IRGC headquarters in an underground facility near Tehran — it was done with B2 bombers, using massive ordinance penetrators, the same weapon used last year in Operation Midnight Hammer, according to the sources. Fox News is told the headquarters was obliterated.

The US military B1 bombers (BONES) dropped 100 of their 2,000-pound bombs during the rescue operations to keep Iranians away from the rescue area during the operation, according to a senior U.S. defense official.

A senior military source told Fox News, “we delivered the heat” on the IRGC.

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Admiral Charles Bradford “Brad” Cooper II, Commander of US Central Command speaks during a joint press conference with US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, at US Central Command (CENTCOM) headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, on March 5, 2026.  (Octavio JONES / AFP via Getty Images)

CENTCOM noted in a press release that U.S. forces had rescued two service members after their F-15E was downed.

Fox News was told that the operation took place between the two rescues: Cooper ordered the B2s to fly round trip from Whiteman AFB in the US because they received time-sensitive intelligence about the location of a large number of IRGC commanders inside this underground bunker in Tehran, and the Massive Ordinance Penetrator bunker buster bombs were dropped by the B2 warplanes.

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Wreckage is seen from what Iranian authorities say is a U.S. military helicopter that crashed during a mission to rescue the missing American pilot of an F-15E that was downed, in a handout image provided on April 5, 2026 in an unspecified location in Iran. (Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance/Handout via Getty Images)

Following the rescues, President Donald Trump declared in a Truth Social post, “We have rescued the seriously wounded, and really brave, F-15 Crew Member/Officer, from deep inside the mountains of Iran. The Iranian Military was looking hard, in big numbers, and getting close. He is a highly respected Colonel. This type of raid is seldom attempted because of the danger to ‘man and equipment.’ It just doesn’t happen!” 

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“The second raid came after the first one, where we rescued the pilot in broad daylight, also unusual, spending seven hours over Iran. An AMAZING show of bravery and talent by all!” he said.