Donald Trump gave pregnant women from the pulpit of the presidency: “harden it” before taking Tylenol.
A total of nine times, said Trump, expectant mothers should suffer from their discomfort, instead of reaching for paracetamol in countries outside the USA to heal their fever or headache, although the medication is one of the few pain relievers that are allowed to take pregnant women.
“Fight like hell, so as not to take it,” Trump pointed out at a press conference on Monday to address autism. He added that when pregnant women absolutely have to take Tylenol that will be something that they “train with themselves”.
What many women and experts heard was the most recent example of a man who said women said how much physical pain they should endure-and a centuries-old effort to accuse mothers for their babies’s autism.
“His use of” challenging IT-out “was really annoying because she dismissed the pain of women and the real danger that exists with fever and miscarriage during pregnancy,” said Amanda Tietz, a 46-year-old mother of three years in Wisconsin, in Wisconsin in an email. “Not to mention the pain that we can experience during pregnancy that can be weak.”
Others saw how a man – again, without evidence that the operate of Tylenol causes autism or ADHD for children in children -, for mothers, children with disabilities and their health at a time when studies show that women show the pain suffered by women. According to the Supreme Court’s decision in 2022, the health of women and their autonomy are particularly arduous questions in order to remove the protection of the constitution for abortion, a deeply personal change for Americans almost half a century according to Roe v. Calf. The debate now has state legislators nationwide.
“Yesterday 5 mighty men stood in the Wh and ashamed: pregnant women who are supposed to go through pain; mothers of autistic children who were held responsible for the condition of their child. Autistic people who broke and need to repair,” drove Trump’s former surgeon General Jerome Adams on social media. “Can we all stigmatize more friendly and less?”
Three women also spoke at the press conference on Monday and thanked Trump: Dorothy Fink, the deputy secretary at HHS; And Jackie O’Brien and Amanda Rumer, two mothers who said they had autistic children.
Dr. Nicole B. Saphier from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center said that pregnant women are generally advised to take up only under medical supervision and with the lowest effective dose if necessary and with the lowest effective dose. Just as vital – and in Trump’s message – it was that untreated fever or severe pain can also be earnest risks for mothers and babies, she said.
“Women have endured a paternalistic tone for decades. We have passed the symptoms as” hysteria “,” wrote Saphier, who is also a medical employee of Fox News, in an e -mail. “The recent comments of the President of Tylenol during pregnancy are an excellent example. Advising moderation was healthy; it was not to be delivered more easily.”
Trump is not known for a sensitive touch of politics in which women are concerned. Before the 2016 elections, he broke out because of the challenging survey of Fox News’ Megyn Kelly and later said CNN: “You can see that blood comes out of your eyes and blood comes out of her.” He has a special playbook for female opponents, which has an impact on their appearance, emotional stability and intelligence.
There is a long story of men who sometimes incorrectly capture the reproductive health of women. Former Republican Republican Republican of Missouri, Todd Akin, sank his campaign of the US Senate in 2012 with comments about what was “legitimate rape”. Others were wrong by having proposed publicly and incorrectly that rape victims cannot become pregnant.
History offers a long list of men who make a medical policy for women that are based on the beliefs of their time – and some say that the power of women create and shape their unborn babies. An almost half-year theory that was discredited for a long time decided that “fridge mothers” chilly or removed figures were responsible for the autism of their children.
Trump’s advice “brought me back to mothers who were held responsible for autism,” said Alison Singer, founder of the Autism Science Foundation. “Basically, he said that if you cannot absorb the pain, if you cannot handle the fever, it is your fault.”
Trump’s “Hartes IT -Out” Councilor of Mary E. Fissell, a professor of medical history at John’s Hopkins University. “It is the classic guilt of the mother … over and over again,” she said. For example, the “maternal imagination” was a principle of which it was once assumed that it influenced the way a baby forms.
“It is the idea that a pregnant woman wishes or feels the shape of her unborn child,” said Fissell, who focuses on the medical history of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Trump offered at least one moment of self -observation during his press conference and recognized the unpleasant nature of his directive.
“You know, it is easy for me to say hard,” the president allowed. “But sometimes in life or in many other things, you also have to get it out.”
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