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Emma Kennedy, Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics, Villanova University

How a niche Catholic approach to infertility treatment became a new talking point for MAHA conservatives

'Restorative reproductive medicine' has become a buzzword in some conservative circles, among people morally opposed to in vitro fertilization Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Along the 2024 presidential campaign trail, Donald Trump pledged to make in vitro fertilization, or IVF, free – part of his party’s wider push for a new American “baby boom.”

But in October 2025, when the administration revealed its IVF proposal, many health care experts pointed out that it falls short of mandating insurance companies to cover the procedure.

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