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Carter Sherman

Trump’s IVF order: a PR move that gives pronatalists cause for cheer

persons hands hold silver instruments while freezing embryos above light blue tray
An embryologist freezes embryos at a fertility clinic in California last year. Photograph: Jay L Clendenin for The Washington Post via Getty Images

During Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, as support for reproductive rights mounted, the president promised to force insurance companies to pay for in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments. On Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order that, the White House said, “expands access to in vitro fertilization”.

“PROMISES MADE. PROMISES KEPT,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, posted in all-caps on Twitter/X.

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