Trump says he’ll support free IVF treatments in a second term

Up to date August 30, 2024 at 13:27 PM ET

Former President Donald Trump mentioned Thursday that if he is elected once more, his administration would fund in vitro fertilization therapies.

“I used to be all the time for IVF. Proper from the start, as quickly as we heard about it,” the Republican nominee mentioned in an interview with NBC Information in Michigan.

Trump advised NBC he’d help public funding for in vitro fertilization, or a mandate requiring insurance coverage corporations to cowl it. He reiterated the proposal throughout a city corridor in La Crosse, Wisc. Thursday night, however he didn’t present any particulars on how the plan would work.

The process to deal with infertility can value tens of 1000’s of {dollars}.

“We’re doing this as a result of we simply assume it’s nice. And we’d like nice youngsters, lovely youngsters in our nation, we really need them,” Trump advised NBC.

Some anti-abortion activists need to limit or ban IVF as a result of the method sometimes entails discarding extra embryos. However most voters, together with many Republicans, help entry to the process.

An Alabama Supreme Courtroom choice earlier this yr briefly minimize off entry to IVF till state lawmakers intervened, forcing many high-profile Republicans to weigh in on the difficulty.

Trump’s feedback come as he seems to be attempting to melt his picture on reproductive rights forward of the November election over considerations about voter backlash. Abortion is anticipated to be a key subject within the election, with Democrats warning voters that Republicans would additional limit entry to reproductive healthcare if former Trump is elected.

Trump has repeatedly, and proudly, taken credit score for the Supreme court docket overturning Roe v. Wade, after he appointed three conservative justices to the court docket. However final week, Trump wrote on Reality Social that he could be “nice for girls and their reproductive rights.”

That assertion drew criticism from some abortion rights opponents together with his former vice chairman, Mike Pence. Trump additionally lately indicated in a CBS Information interview that he wouldn’t use a Nineteenth-century anti-obscenity legislation, the Comstock Act, to limit abortion drugs. That assertion additionally drew pushback from some activists.

The Harris-Walz marketing campaign responded to Trump’s IVF feedback, saying in an announcement that “As a result of Trump overturned Roe v. Wade, IVF is already below assault and girls’s freedoms have been ripped away in states throughout the nation.”

“There is just one candidate on this race who trusts ladies and can shield our freedom to make our personal well being care choices: Vice President Kamala Harris,” the assertion from spokesperson Sarafina Chitika mentioned.

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