Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that if he's elected again, his administration would fund in vitro fertilization treatments.
“I was always for IVF.
Right from the beginning, as soon as we heard about it,” the Republican nominee said in an interview with NBC News in Michigan.
Trump told NBC he’d support public funding for in vitro fertilization, or a mandate requiring insurance companies to cover it. He reiterated the proposal during a town hall in La Crosse, Wisc. Thursday evening, but he did not provide any details on how the plan would work.
The procedure to treat infertility can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
“We’re doing this because we just think it’s great. And we need great children, beautiful children in our country, we actually need them,” Trump told NBC.
Some anti-abortion activists want to restrict or ban IVF because the process typically involves discarding excess embryos.
But most voters, including many Republicans, support access to the procedure.
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@YouthfulLapwingDemocrat2yrs2Y
Donald Trump's proposal to cover IVF for everyone is not a bad idea.
The problem is, his own party is already attacking him over it.
Do the Republicans want to govern or not? Because winning elections means moving to the middle, not being ideologues.
There is a bipartisan GOP bill in the House that would mandate private insurance companies to cover IVF treatments.
15 House Republicans are supporters, many of them from swing districts. Rep. Garbarino signed on this week as a cosponsor
You seem to think the government doing nothing about healthcare is a bad thing, even calling it nihilism. But you didn't explain why. Remember that Obamacare has generally been a massive failure and increased the cost of healthcare.
@DreadfulIdealisticGreen2yrs2Y
How can we have IVF funded by the government when they banned it in Alabama and women currently undergoing treatments across the country are experiencing horrific healthcare emergencies because Trump appointed justices who overturned Dobbs?
Make it make sense!
Republicans lie!
At 86,000 births times $30,000 per birth you get $2.6 billion, which is chump change.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
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