tarponchik
Contributor
So your stance is "Blame everyone and everything but mothers"? This idea would be hard to sell. I've seen pregnant women who drank and smoked, and you've seen such behavior too, I am sure. Do you also consider the warning labels saying "pregnant women should not drink alcohol" the same blame-the-mothers kind of thing? Many of them are on antidepressants and take other medications, most of which, as someone here already remarked, had never been tested in pregnant women and infants because such studies are impossible to undertake. So why not study the data w/o any bias such as "do not blame the mothers" or "blame the FDA" or "it's OK to blame only the Big Pharma and the Government" etc, then inform the public, so everyone can make their best educated decision according to their understanding of whether 60% increased risk is high or low? And then (yes) deal with consequences. In some cases the FDA takes responsibility saying "this drug is too dangerous, we can't allow it", but in some cases when the drug benefits some but can harm others people need to take responsibility and decide for themselves. Here is a good illustration of biased one-way view on the subject (but I am sure there are examples of the opposite kind):Not really. The chances are low to begin with, if it went from 0.001 (I am making that up to 60.001 it would matter but it is from next to nothing to double next to nothing. I suspect this is an impossible thing to check for in fact as literally every child, in the west at least, will be given this drug. Assuming a doubling is true doesn’t explain the curves of the increase in autism.
I get particularly pissy about this as it is a terrible problem for those unfortunate enough to suffer from it and the various crack pot theories put forward essentially blame women for decisions they made leading to damage to their children, whereas it is very likely entirely external factors or genetics. This first review covers dozens of elements, picking on one that blames the mother is not helping anyone.