Former President Donald Trump told NBC News Thursday (Aug. 29) that if he is elected in November, his administration will lobby for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to be paid for by the government or insurance companies.
IVF has been a hot button issue leading up to the election, especially among conservative Christians. This includes the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), which passed a resolution clarifying its position on IVF during its annual meeting this June.
In February, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos created through IVF were to be considered as children under state law.
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“IVF has been an issue that has become political. A lot of people talking about it,” an NBC News reporter said before asking Trump, “What’s the Trump administration going to do when it comes to IVF if you get elected?”
Trump replied, “I was always for IVF right from the beginning, as soon as we heard about it—it’s fertilization and it’s helping women and men and families, but it’s helping women be able to have a baby.”
“Some [women] have great difficulty, and a lot of them have been very happy with the results, as you know and what we’re doing,” Trump added. “And 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 then said that “under the Trump administration, we are going to be paying for that treatment. So we are paying for that treatment.”
“[For] all Americans who want it?” the reporter asked.
“All Americans that get it, all Americans that need it,” Trump responded. “So we’re going to be paying for that treatment or we’re going to be mandating that the insurance company pay IVF.”
During the same interview, Trump also discussed Florida’s Amendment 4. The ballot measure, which will be voted on in November, is an attempt to overturn the states six-week abortion ban and enshrine the right to abortion access in Florida’s constitution.
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