I’ll had to find a new Salvador Dali to illustrate this…
But it is yet another extraordinary story about how unpredictable and sometimes downright weird Trump’s selections to work in his administration are.
To quote Rewire, a site that covers reproductive rights:
One of President-elect Trump’s policy team members, Katy Talento, has relied on the work of discredited anti-choice activists to push false claims about reproductive health care.
Talento will work on the administration’s domestic policy team on health care. She was described in a Thursday press releaseas “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.” She worked on Trump’s presidential campaign and for members of the U.S. Senate.
This is Amanda Marcotte’s take on this:
SATURDAY, JAN 7, 2017 06:00 AM PST
A new war on birth control: Trump’s victory has empowered the sex scolds
Bad news for anyone who hoped that Donald Trump’s history as an adultery-loving and fornication champion might put a chill on the Republican Party’s war on sex: It seems that his election is instead inspiring the party of scolds to double down on their quest to punish ordinary people for having sex because they like it.
Trump, being wealthy and male, gets a pass for his lengthy history of sleeping with any woman who will have him — and bragging about grabbing the pussies of those who won’t. But for those of us who aren’t privileged enough to be wealthy men, Republicans are going to do everything in their power to inflict punishment in the form of sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted childbearing.
Trump’s willingness to fully embrace the Junior Anti-Sex League was demonstrated on Thursday, when his transition team announced the hire of Katy Talento as domestic policy counsel for the White House, focusing on health care. Not only is Talento against abortion — which is par for the course in Republican circles — she’s also an anti-birth control fanatic. She goes on in typical Marcotte style, worth reading.
This is from www.statnews.com/...
“Is chemical birth control causing miscarriages of already-conceived children? What about breaking your uterus for good?” she wrote to begin a January 2015 column for The Federalist. She had earlier written another column for the conservative publication with a similar premise.
Talento studied epidemiology at Harvard University and the first job listed on her LinkedIn profile is as a research instructor at Georgetown University Medical Center, where she helped oversee an unspecified NIH-funded study. She then worked at the Whitman-Walker Clinic, which provides services for HIV/AIDS patients, before she moved to politics. She’s held positions in several different congressional offices, including the Senate health committee.
Last but not least, emphasis mine:
"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.” talkingpointsmemo.com/...
Trump is promoting yet another anti-woman policy position that hopefully will alienate more and more voters.
We can only hope.