Republican senators who are also medical doctors pushed back against President Donald Trump’s insistence that pregnant women not take acetaminophen, or it will put their unborn children at risk of developing autism spectrum disorder.
Last week, the president and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that they had found a link between autism and the use of acetaminophen, which is the active ingredient in the widely used brand name Tylenol, and autism. The president specifically said that mothers should “Fight like hell not to take it.”
