Trump says his government will pay for IVF: ‘We want more babies’

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Donald Trump Claims his administration would force insurance companies or the federal government to cover the cost of in vitro fertilization (In vitro fertilization) for all Americans — after Democrats tried to align him with opponentsabortion Groups that want to ban fertility surgery.

Trump made the remarks at a rally in Pottersville, Michigan, on Thursday afternoon. It was Trump’s first real attack on the Democratic Party in response to months of attacks from the White House and Harris’ (formerly Biden) campaign.

It’s a bold campaign promise from a Republican candidate that would require congressional legislation to implement — and, if enacted, would likely face opposition from conservatives.

Democrats have tried to tie Trump to anti-abortion right-wing extremists because he likes to take credit for abortion rights. Supreme CourtOverturned decision Roe v. Wade, This affirms the constitutional right to abortion.

exist Roy Conservatives have been attacking reproductive care since the fall. Earlier this year, an Alabama Supreme Court ruling temporarily put in place in vitro fertilization treatment in the state. Anti-abortion groups, which Trump won over during his three presidential campaigns, have long opposed the practice.

But Trump said at a rally in Michigan on Thursday: “I am announcing today that under the Trump Administration, your government will pay, or your insurance companies will be required to pay, all costs associated with IVF treatment.”

“We want more babies!” he added at the event, which was billed as featuring speeches on energy prices and manufacturing.

The former president made the same promise in an interview NBC News The videos were recorded before he took the stage in Pottersville. But he seemed unclear whether he would seek help from the federal government or insurance companies to cover the costs.

“Under the Trump administration, we will pay for treatment,” he told NBC News. “We will ask the insurance companies to pay.”

In that interview, he also criticized Florida’s six-week abortion ban, an apparent attack on the state’s governor, rival and ally Ron DeSantis.

“I think six weeks is too short, it has to be more time,” Trump told NBC.

While Trump continues to claim to be an ally of IVF and has voiced opposition to a federal ban on abortion, his allies continue to undermine his advocacy. Republican Rep. Matt Rosendale called IVF “morally wrong.” Junewhile Sen. Lindsey Graham is trying to pass a national abortion ban in Congress’ upper chamber.

The “2025 Plan,” a blueprint drafted by multiple conservative groups with ties to former Trump officials, also complicates efforts by Republican candidates to distance themselves from extremists in the anti-abortion movement.

The plan calls for repealing FDA approval of over-the-counter sales of the abortion pill mifepristone and restrictions on mailing mifepristone. Project 2025 also calls for efforts to track women who leave states where abortion is illegal and cross state lines to seek abortion services. It could also lead to outright bans on IVF and abortion by other means — namely, calling on conservative-led legal pushes to extend personhood rights to unborn fetuses.

Trump’s new IVF policy proposals are somewhat at odds with the free-market-oriented mindset of Washington Republicans on health care.

Fiscal conservatives opposed the Obama administration’s efforts to force health care companies to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions and tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act during the first term of the Trump administration. At the time, Democrats believed Republicans were willing to let insurers again drop coverage for Americans with pre-existing conditions, leaving millions without insurance plans.

Trump has made little mention on the 2024 campaign trail of seeking to repeal Obamacare again, and his IVF plan would further expand the coverage that health insurers must support once the bill passes into law.