Trump Nominee Makes False Claims about Birth Control
January 11, 2017 |by Amy Marturana
This week, Donald Trump announced his picks for his Domestic Policy Council, and on that list is Katy Talento, an infectious disease epidemiologist who will work on health care policy. There’s still a few weeks before the President-elect is sworn into office, but Talento has already come under fire for claims she has made about birth control—specifically, that common methods like the Pill cause miscarriage and infertility—which are completely unsupported by medical research.