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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.
Resolve, the country’s leading infertility association, also applauded the order. “In our decades of advocacy, we have never seen an administration prioritize IVF as an issue impacting millions of Americans,” Barbara Collura, its president and CEO, said in a statement. “For this we are grateful.”
The order, on its own, does not fulfill any campaign pledges. It does not change policy, much less make IVF free to people who want to grow their families. Instead, it is soliciting “policy recommendations to protect IVF access and aggressively reduce out-of-pocket...