I have never been more proud of a policy! #IVF pic.twitter.com/YfBWfbLK2T
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) August 30, 2024
Former President Trump tells NBC News that if he’s re-elected, his administration would not only protect access to IVF, but would have either the government or insurance companies cover the cost of it.
More: https://t.co/ByO77cGtx8 pic.twitter.com/Liv2FgO2XT
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) August 29, 2024
Previously: “Abortion Lord” Trump Wants to Overturn Six-Week Ban, Allow Women to Murder Older Children
The story probably isn’t that this is a $7 billion entitlement giveaway to old women and homosexuals, but rather that it’s a $7 billion entitlement giveaway at all.
Adding massive amounts of entitlements is typically a Democrat thing. The Republicans are scared to remove them, but they do not generally add them.
Also, while I don’t think most Protestants even know what IVF is, Catholics view it as a type of mass abortion.
Former President Donald Trump proposed Thursday that in-vitro fertilization (IVF) be made free for wannabe parents — a sweeping pitch that could transfer as much as $7 billion in annual costs to the government and insurance companies, experts tell The Post.
The Trump team hasn’t specified how the policy would be adopted, but the quickest way is likely through pending legislation requiring insurance companies to consider infertility a covered medical condition or through amending former President Barack Obama’s signature 2010 healthcare law.
It’s funny… I remember the first thing he wanted to do in 2017 was repeal Obamacare.
Now he’s bloating it further.
Strange…
If Trump, 78, manages to become the 47th president, he could also issue executive orders expanding free IVF coverage to all federal workers, military members and veterans, who currently are eligible only in limited cases — though such orders would likely face legal challenges.
“Politicians promise and overpromise all the time,” Gerald Kominski, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, told The Post Friday.
“In this specific case, what [Trump’s] promising has never been done with regard to healthcare in this country.”
The price tag for IVF is hefty — with treatments costing $15,000 to $20,000 per cycle, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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If enacted, a free-IVF mandate would be a major bipartisan accomplishment for Trump, who in his first term similarly breathed new life into long-stalled criminal justice reforms, forcing through a bipartisan package known as the First Step Act after the policies languished for years.
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The Trump IVF plan got a range of reactions from Republicans, with some championing it as a bold pro-family initiative while others — especially abortion opponents —shared concerns due to IVF’s process of creating and destroying embryos.
IVF actually kills more lives than a single abortion.
238,000 patients attempted IVF in 2021. If clinics created 8 embryos per patient (they don’t keep exact numbers; it can be 10 to 15), that’s 1.66 million fertilized embryos destroyed.
Trump wants your taxes to fund this.
— Gabriel Hughes (@Pastor_Gabe) August 30, 2024
Trump just announced his admin would either pay for IVF with tax dollars or force all insurance companies cover it
Only 7% of embryos created via IVF will result in a live birth, the remaining 93% are frozen indefinitely, miscarried, or aborted.
Over 1 million human embryos are…
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) August 29, 2024
The Trump initiative is expected to appeal not only to suburban centrists, but more Democratic-leaning voting groups, such as LGBT people who use IVF to conceive children.
“Affordable access to IVF is an important issue for the LGBT community across the political spectrum, and President Trump’s proposal would be a game changer for LGBT couples who want to start families of their own,” Log Cabin Republicans President Charles Moran said in a statement.
That’s apparently the core of it.
It’s about gays.
The science has done incredible things with vaccines and changing the weather using a system of windmills, but they have yet to conquer the challenge of anal babies.
Lauren Brown, 36, had two sons with her wife using IVF treatment.
Inspired in part by her experience and with the blessing of her family, she decided to look into becoming a surrogate, especially for another LGBTQ+ family like her own. https://t.co/OHME6KZtOr pic.twitter.com/DmM9KCMjNA
— Good Morning America (@GMA) June 29, 2024
I don’t really know that I have any new commentary on this issue. We’ve all seen the way that Kamala has become a hardcore border enforcer and Trump has become the mega-social-liberal.
He wants abortion and anal babies.