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He suggested pregnant women “ideally” not “take it at all,” but if they can’t “tough it out” with a high fever, they could use it “very sparingly.”

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Out of all the scary moments for the future of health and well-being in the United States, the nation’s president standing up and telling pregnant women to “tough it out” and forgo Tylenol during pregnancy because he believes that the drug causes autism was one of the scariest.

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The problem with that, though, is not just that women will have to “tough it out” and suffer unnecessarily, although that’s not nothing.

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"Pregnancy is one of the hardest things a woman is ever going to do ... so to be told to tough it out is infuriating," she said.

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"You just take it and then tough it out for the the next 20 minutes until it kicks in and then you're OK to train," revealed Jarrell-Searcy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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