Trump's 'tough it out' advice to expectant moms is the latest example of men opining on women's pain
President Donald Trump has become the latest in a long line of men to opine on women's pain when he told expectant moms to “tough it out” without Tylenol. Speaking at a news conference Monday, he suggested that expectant mothers should endure discomfort rather than use acetaminophen, a common painkiller allowed during pregnancy. Critics, including women’s rights advocates, argue his comments dismiss women's pain and lack evidence linking Tylenol to autism or ADHD. Trump's former surgeon general, Jerome Adams, and physician Nicole B. Saphier criticized the remarks as patronizing. They stressed the importance of medical supervision when taking acetaminophen, noting that untreated pain can pose serious risks.
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President Donald Trump says Ukraine can win back all territory lost to Russia. It's a dramatic shift from the U.S. leader’s call on Kyiv to make concessions. Trump offered his position in a social media posting Tuesday. He had met earlier in the day with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. Over 140 world leaders are gathering this week in an effort to secure global peace and security. They’ll discuss, among other things, a two-state solution to the Israel-Hamas conflict and a plan to cut carbon emissions.
U.S. stock slipped as Wall Street took a pause from its relentless rally. The S&P 500 fell 0.6% Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.2%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 0.9%. It’s the first pullback for the indexes after the trio set all-time highs in each of the last three days. Since surging from a bottom in April, the broad U.S. stock market has faced criticism that it’s shot too high, too fast and become too expensive. Even the head of the Federal Reserve said on Tuesday that stock prices broadly look fairly highly valued. Nvidia was the heaviest weight on the market.
Shares of Tylenol maker Kenvue are bouncing back sharply before the opening bell a day after President Donald Trump promoted unproven and in some cases discredited ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism. Trump told pregnant women not to use the painkiller around a dozen times during the White House news conference Monday. The drugmaker tumbled 7.5%. Shares have regained most of those losses early Tuesday in premarket trading.
Many doctors and scientists were reeling after President Donald Trump went on TV to insist that pregnant women should never take Tylenol and revive debunked theories about vaccines and autism. Trump on Monday went beyond his own health regulators' more modest advice that doctors “should consider minimizing" the painkiller's use during pregnancy because of inconclusive research. Brain experts know there is no single cause of autism and say the rhetoric ignores decades of science into the genetic and environmental factors that can play a role. Autism rates are rising, but largely because of an expanded definition, more awareness and more screening.
President Donald Trump is using the platform of the presidency to promote unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without giving new evidence. Speaking Monday from the White House, the president said women should not take acetaminophen, also known by the brand name Tylenol, “during the entire pregnancy.” He also raised unfounded concerns about vaccines. The Trump administration has been under immense pressure from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s diverse Make America Healthy Again movement to provide answers on the causes of the marked increase in autism cases in the U.S. in recent years.