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In a move that only served to confound pro-life Americans further dismayed over recent statements that his administration will be “great for women and their reproductive rights,” former President Trump announced last week that “your government will pay for — or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for — all costs associated with IVF treatment.”
While the 2024 Republican Platform, written entirely by Trump and his inner circle, already made clear that he supports “policies that advance . . . access to . . . IVF (fertility treatments),” this latest promise to use the heavy hand of the federal government to force taxpayers to fund the contentious procedure may erode support from not only those worried about the millions of embryos destroyed under current IVF practices but fiscal conservatives and libertarians as well. As the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board bluntly put it, “If you think IVF is expensive now, wait until it’s ‘free.’”
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