Trump's New Health Care Policy Staffer Thinks Birth Control Causes Abortions

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo


By KRISTIN SALAKY Published JANUARY 5, 2017, 5:48 PM EDT

Donald Trump's transition team announced Thursday an addition to the President-elect's White House policy team who has a history of railing against chemical birth control, claiming that it causes abortions and "deliberate miscarriages."

Katy Talento, who will serve on Trump's Domestic Policy Council working on healthcare policy is "an infectious disease epidemiologist with nearly 20 years of experience in public health and health policy, as well as government oversight and investigations and program evaluation," according to the announcement by the Trump transition team. She has served the Trump campaign since July 2016 and has spent 12 years working in the Senate.

Talento's advocacy against birth control was first surfaced when she has hired as a legislative director for Sen. Thom Tillis (R-SC). In an article she published at The Federalist in January 2015, Talento preached about the risks of birth control, some of which are founded in facts, like the risk of cardiovascular problems. But she also made bogus claims, including that birth control pills may cause miscarriages.

"Preventing a fertilized egg (i.e. after conception) from hunkering down in the wall of the uterus, where it can grow normally," she wrote. "Progestin in birth control thins the endometrial lining (uterine wall), but a fertilized egg needs a thick, fluffy, blood-rich uterine wall to attach to and begin growth. Without it, the embryo can’t survive, and a miscarriage occurs."

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-policy-staffer-katy-talento-thinks-birth-control-causes-abortion

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Let me guess,

Liberty University Graduate.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. WTF?

[Hekate]

3. I always want to ask these idiots how many children do they have, and if the answer ...

...comes out to fewer than one child per year of their adult life, I feel entitled to know how they achieved that without any kind of birth control. Like, does having three children mean they and their spouse did the deed 3 times and no more than that? Hm?

I'd love to hear these hypocrites splutter that that is none of my goddamned business -- because it isn't. And my life is none of their goddamned business.

[izzybella]

6. I would not be surprised.

I have met women like that and they believe that sex is for the purpose of reproduction only.

It's likely why they are so uptight all the time.

[turbinetree]

4. Double WTF

Unf***ing unbelievable did this person take a sex education class or was it banned twenty years ago, don't think so.
No wonder this Congress is bat s*** crazy

Tillis is just as brain dead

[Crunchy Frog]

5. Women should start sending the their used sanitary products.

So they can properly mourn the dead.

[blm]

7. Thom Tillis is NC. He's not even really anti-abortion. He pretends he is for religious right voters

but, when he's hanging with his wealthy friends at the The Peninsula Club, he magically turns into the rich man's Republican where they wink and nod and discuss more tax cuts…..only for them, of course. Abortion and gun-grabbing scare talk is for the rubes they need to vote on election day.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. She's against the very idea of contraception, for moral reasons

Our reproductive health isn’t the only thing broken by the Pill and other vehicles delivering hormonal contraception. There’s also economic and relational devastation that has left women and children abandoned by men who now feel entitled to consequence-free orgasms. As a result, fewer and fewer women, men and especially children enjoy the stability, prosperity, and human flourishing that marriage between biological parents provides. After all, she could have been using birth control, so it’s not on you—right, bro?

https://thefederalist.com/2015/01/05/ladies-is-birth-control-the-mother-of-all-medical-malpractice/

Yes, that's right, she thinks that contraception means men abandon women, because they aren't constantly having children that need parenting. And they'd do that even if there are already children from the couple. She thinks that couples that stop after just a few children are wrong. They need a constant stream of newborns to stop the man leaving.

Via Roy Edroso.

[Hortensis]

9. THIS. Be sure to let a conservative know today.

Or two or three.