In an announcement on Sept. 22, President Donald Trump said that using Tylenol during pregnancy increases the risk of having a baby with autism, contradicting advice from leading obstetrics experts who say the popular drug is very safe in pregnancy.

“Don’t take Tylenol. Fight like hell not to take it,” Trump said during a White House briefing.

The president, who was flanked by U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other cabinet officials, said pregnant women shouldn’t take acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, unless they have an “extremely high fever.”

“If you can’t tough it out, if you can’t do it, that's what you’re going to have to do,” Trump said.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists was quick to dispute Trump’s clai

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