This week, the new administration's transition team announced a new hire, a woman who claims that birth control causes not only miscarriages, but infertility and abortions.

Katy Talento will serve on Trump's Domestic Policy Council, specializing in healthcare policy, according to a statement from the Trump transition team. She joined the president-elect's campaign over the summer and spent a dozen years before that working in the Senate, where a distaste for facts is apparently some kind of credential.

Writing for The Federalist in January 2015, Talento linked birth control to abortion and disease and miscarriage. Her first piece is titled "Ladies: Is Birth Control the Mother of All Medical Malpractice?" and blames the fact that "fewer women, men and especially children enjoy the stability, prosperity, and human flourishing that marriage between biological parents provides" with reproductive freedom. Her second piece asserts that it's time for "ladies" to know what their doctors aren't telling them—"chemical birth control causes abortions and often has terrible side effects, including deliberate miscarriage."

She goes on to suggest that birth control and IUDs can cause a woman to become infertile and addresses her "ladies" once more to conclude:

Ladies, did your doctor tell you all the facts before writing that prescription? Did she tell you that the "safer," lower-dose products could potentially lead to miscarriages of already-conceived embryos? Did she tell you that the longer you stay on the Pill, the more likely you are to ruin your uterus for baby-hosting altogether? Is this the freedom and peace of mind you were seeking when you popped that first Pill? Just asking.

Luckily, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology has an answer. There is no link between having a miscarriage and having taken birth control pills before a pregnancy.

Mattie Kahn Mattie Kahn is a writer who lives in New York.

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