Washington Examiner Senior Writer Joe Concha called it “disturbing” to watch the videos of pregnant women jokingly taking Tylenol online, after the Trump administration linked acetaminophen, including Tylenol, to autism.
Fox Business anchor Ashley Webster aired online video clips of pregnant women joking about taking Tylenol during the segment.
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“I’m not sure where you can actually come down in terms of mentally where you’re going to put up a video saying, ‘I’m going to take this and if my kid gets autism, then so be it,’ I’m sorry, to prove a point?” Concha said on The Evening Edit. “I’m reacting more emotionally than as a journalist, a reporter, an analyst because, Ashley, it’s just a whole bowl of wrong.”
President Donald Trump and members of his Cabinet announced on Monday recommendations against taking Tylenol during pregnancy because of an associated risk of the child developing autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
Since the announcement, former practicing doctors who’ve been elected to Congress have warned pregnant women to “ask their doctor” before taking Trump’s Tylenol advice.
Concha argued that there are more autism cases now than there were 25 years ago.
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“We should be concerned about that. What is causing this? And we have [Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kenney Jr.] in there who has been pursuing this answer his whole life, so I just think this isn’t a laughable matter.”
Concha highlighted that he has many friends who, “unfortunately,” have children with autism.
“Not just for the child, but for the parents, it’s a life-changing event like you would never know, and to laugh about this or think that ‘OK, well we probably shouldn’t try to pursue certain remedies around this,’ I just can’t get my head around it,” he said. “We’re at a weird place right now.”