Tough it out, ladies: "Don't take Tylenol," President Donald Trump told America's pregnant women yesterday. "Don't take it. Fight like hell not to take it."
Instead, pregnant women should "tough it out" when they're in pain, said Trump, touting a possible link between Tylenol use—specifically, acetaminophen—in pregnancy and autism.
Acetaminophen is frequently the only pain reliever pregnant women are allowed to take. And the link between that drug and a child in utero developing autism is rather tenuous; medical research is in no way conclusive on this, so it's a little insane that Trump and his top health deputy Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are going public with this. (RFK Jr. and Marty Makary, Food and Drug Administration commissioner, also touted a B-vitamin-based drug called leucovorin that has showed some promise at treating autism.)
