Pro-Life Advocates Voice Displeasure With Trump for ‘Expanding Access’ to IVF

Gruber later posted a video criticizing Trump for expanding access to IVF.

“IVF IS NOT PRO-LIFE! Trump cannot say he is the most pro-life president in history while also expanding access to IVF,” Gruber captioned the video. “Big fertility kills MORE innocent lives than the abortion industry. Let that sink in. Make your voices heard and let Trump know we DO NOT support this!”

Denny Burk, professor of biblical studies at Boyce College, said that Trump is “wrong” for supporting IVF. “The routine destruction of human life is the primary moral problem with IVF, although many people do not realize it,” Burk posted. “It is past time for Christians to get up to speed on what IVF involves. President Trump is wrong to support this at any level.”

Ethics and public theology professor Andrew T. Walker encouraged people to have a “wait-and-see approach” regarding Trump’s IVF executive order.

“President Trump has signed an Executive Order on IVF. For now,” Walker posted, “It merely calls for policy recommendations. No specifics are offered, so a wait-and-see approach is needed.”

Walker continued, “In the interim, I hope an otherwise pro-life White House engages stakeholders who can speak to the grave threats to human dignity that result from IVF.”

“A better approach for an Executive Order that wants to help bring children into the world would encourage further research and recommendations for restorative fertility medicine that can welcome children in non-life-threatening ways,” Walker said.

Social media influencer Jon Root said, “President Trump just objectively made his worst decision since taking office… IVF is evil, unethical & radically anti-life. Millions of lives created through IVF (over 93%) are frozen indefinitely, miscarried, or aborted…”

Trump’s former lawyer, Jenna Ellis, argued that America needs more “families,” not “just more babies.”

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“We don’t just need more babies. We need more families,” Ellis posted. “This all starts with the concept of the family unit: Marriage between one man and one woman. We can’t start with ‘more babies’ and ignore the context best suited for them to thrive: the family.”