Study: Moms on antidepressants risk having autistic baby boys

wnd.com ^ | 4/14/2014 | DAVID KUPELIAN

[DannyTN]

'1st trimester SSRI exposure was associated with more than a 300% increased risk' ... At the same time, 11 percent of all Americans 12-and-over are taking SSRI antidepressants, including an astonishing 23 percent – almost one in four – of women in their 40s and 50s, and between 7 and 13 percent of all pregnant women in the U.S.

... Specifically, the research team determined that male children with autism disorders were almost three times as likely to have experienced prenatal exposure to antidepressants, when compared with boys with normal development. The finding regarding autistic boys was even more pronounced if their exposure to SSRIs occurred during the first trimester of pregnancy, when the developing child’s brain is considered most vulnerable. ...

[Cyber Liberty]

Who cares? They’re just boys. This will help close the wage gap when they get older. Boys have had “male privilege” for too long, and they need to be taken down a notch.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

but to blame all of autism on vaccines is ludicrous.

Yeah, it's probably something like birth control pills.

If it were, they'd never tell us.

[Cyber Liberty]

(I wish to apologize to the good folks on this thread who have an autistic child for being a wise guy in my earlier post. You all have life considerably more difficult that I without some jerk cracking wise about it,)

[Talisker]

I do believe that vaccines—too many and too early—can also be a cause, but to blame all of autism on vaccines is ludicrous.

Well since I was the one that pointed out multiple possible causes, and you were the one who asserted single causation, then who exactly are you talking to here? Because it sure ain't me, and that makes your statement ludicrous.