When President Donald Trump announced Tylenol can cause autism, leftists suddenly gained compassion for the disabled. This is strange, because usually they advocate killing them.
Trump said acetaminophen, the primary active ingredient found in Tylenol, used during pregnancy is linked to autism in a press conference on Sept. 22. He repeatedly urged mothers not to take it unless absolutely necessary.
The left responded by defending autism, arguing the disability does not need to be cured — since autistic people have value. This is strange, considering they support assisted suicide and aborting disabled people when inconvenient.
Although autism is a disability that can’t be detected in the womb, leftists advocate abortion for similar disabilities, such as Down syndrome. But after Trump’s announcement, leftists are pretending to have compassion for the disabled.
“Let us be clear — Autism is NOT a disease. It does not require a cure. It is not something to fear or eradicate. … Autistic brains are beautiful,” one popular account said.
A pro-LGBT account posted a similar message. “The myths and conspiracy theories about autism often come from the harmful idea that being autistic is something wrong or something to eliminate,” the post reads. “That is not true.”
The American Association of People with Disabilities Instagram account, a left-leaning nonprofit that has posted about “pride month,” Juneteenth, and black history month, called Trump’s efforts eugenic. “Efforts by the current administration to ‘cure’ and ‘prevent’ autism are rooted in stigma, ableism, and eugenics,” the post reads. “Autistic people are not a problem to be fixed. Autistic people deserve to, and can, live meaningful lives of their own choosing when they are accepted, supported, respected, and accommodated.”
This stands in stark contrast to what the left has preached for years: that women can simply kill disabled babies out of convenience.
According to a Pew Research study from 2022, 68 percent of Democrats believe abortion should be allowed for babies who are “likely to be born with severe disabilities.”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed several laws that expanded abortion in his state, allowing for abortions at any stage in pregnancy for any reason. He also repealed Minnesota’s requirement that infants born alive during an abortion receive lifesaving medical care.
A former chairman of a local Massachusetts Democrat committee suggested unborn babies with disabilities should be aborted because they would cost public schools more money. “Our fear is that if an unqualified sonographer misdiagnoses a heart defect, an organ defect, spina bifida, that becomes a very local issue because our school budget will have to absorb the cost of a child in special education, supplying lots and lots of special services to children, who were born with the defect,” he said.
Democrats also advocate for medical aid in dying (assisted suicide) to expand in America, despite disability-advocacy groups opposing it. According to a Pew Research study, when there is “there is no hope of improvement and great pain,” “fully 83% of liberal Democrats think people have a moral right to end their own lives under these circumstances, while just 41% of conservative Republicans agree.”
“It’s a healthcare issue because government and physicians and advocates all have a responsibility to limit, to reduce, to end human suffering and that’s what the Medical Aid in Dying Act does,” state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal (D-N.Y.) said when referencing assisted suicide legislation.
Currently in the U.S., 11 states and Washington, D.C., allow for assisted suicide — with every state except Montana being a blue one.
National disability advocacy organizations, such as the American Association of People with Disabilities, oppose assisted suicide laws because of risks of coercion, medical error, misinformation, and the belief that such laws “devalue the lives of people with disabilities.”
Ari Ne’eman, former president of Autistic Self Advocacy Network, expressed concerns about what the wording of assisted suicide legislation could mean for the disabled. Ne’eman cited a piece of New Hampshire legislation that “include[d] a definition of terminal illness so broad as to allow for a lethal prescription in response to any condition which shortens lifespan without a known treatment.”
Suddenly, leftists have sympathy for disabled people, despite tirelessly advocating for their deaths. But this “compassion” is not about autism — it’s about disagreeing with Trump. If the left truly cared about those with disabilities, they would leave their party and join the conservative movement, the party that has always argued that those who are disabled are worthy of life.
True compassion is equipping women to build strong, healthy pregnancies so fewer problems ever arise — not telling them to end the life of their child when challenges appear.