It’s time so as to add one other man to the long list of “Republicans who don’t know something about feminine anatomy.”
The most recent entrant: Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who claimed throughout a cupboard assembly Thursday to have simply seen a video of a pregnant girl “saying ‘F Trump’ and gobbling Tylenol along with her child in her placenta.”
Besides fetuses don’t develop within the placenta. They develop in the uterus.
Kennedy’s description of the video aligns with a widely circulated clip of a girl who says she’s 28 weeks pregnant taking Tylenol, nevertheless it seems the well being secretary made up some key variations:
1. Opposite to Kennedy’s declare, the lady within the video by no means says “F Trump,” and, in actual fact, by no means mentions Trump in any respect.
2. The girl takes one Tylenol, which hardly qualifies as “gobbling” them.
Well being and Human Companies didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark confirming if it was the identical video or clarifying the extent of Kennedy’s data of the reproductive system.
Kennedy made the anatomically inaccurate boast whereas looking for to flatter President Donald Trump by accusing the pregnant mom of getting “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” which isn’t an actual illness, however a well-liked protect utilized by Republicans to keep away from having to truly defend Trump’s insurance policies.
“The extent of Trump Derangement Syndrome … is now within the realm of a pathology,” mentioned Kennedy, who accused the mom of letting it “overwhelm thousands and thousands of years of maternal intuition, to place her child in danger.”
In one other surreal second through the assembly, the well being secretary gravely warned that circumcision leads to autism due to Tylenol, apparently as a result of kids are given Tylenol after the process.
“There are two research that present kids who’re circumcised early have double the speed of autism,” RFK Jr. instructed a room stuffed with the president’s most senior leaders. “It’s extremely doubtless as a result of they’re given Tylenol.”
The well being secretary later conceded that there’s no proof Tylenol causes autism, however assured Trump that “we’re doing the studies to make the proof.”
At Kennedy’s path, and absent any stable science, Trump last month claimed acetaminophen (generally referred to as Tylenol) use throughout being pregnant could also be linked to autism, strongly discouraging its use.
Skilled medical organizations, starting from the American Faculty of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to the American Psychiatric Affiliation, refuted Trump’s allegations.
