Recently, Republicans in Congress voted twice against the law protecting IVF.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump declared this Wednesday, October 16, speaking to an exclusively female audience, that he is the “father of in vitro fertilization”, trying to way to attract female voters ahead of the presidential election.
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“We are truly the party of in vitro fertilization. The Democrats have tried to attack us on this, but we are even more active than they are in the area of in vitro fertilization,” Trump said.
At the same time, Trump did not develop the topic of women's reproductive rights, which is considered a weak point in his election campaign. And, as the New York Times recalls, Republicans in Congress have recently voted against legislation protecting IVF twice.
In the same interview, Trump said that after the court's February ruling banning IVF in the very conservative state of Alabama, Republican Senator Katie Britt called him to discuss the growing controversy surrounding in vitro fertilization.
“I said to her, 'Explain IVF to me real quick.' And within two minutes I understood and said, 'No, no, we're for IVF!'” Trump said.
After the interview aired, Trump campaign spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt explained that the presidential candidate's remark about IVF was “a joke made in in a burst of enthusiasm.”
The publication notes that Donald Trump is significantly behind his rival Kamala Harris in polls among the female electorate. Over the past 15 years in the political arena, Trump has distinguished himself with a very inconsistent position on abortion. First, he positioned himself as a supporter of women's free choice, and then called for “some form of punishment” for women who have abortions.
Trump also boasted that, thanks to the appointment of three conservative justices to the US Supreme Court in June 2022, it was possible to cancel constitutional guarantees of the right to abortion. But after facing harsh criticism from Democrats and public opinion, Trump is now trying to portray himself as a defender of “reproductive rights.”
Trump's rival, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, called Trump's statements about IVF “pretty bizarre.”
“His bans on abortion have already threatened access to this method [IVF – ed.] in the United States, and his own election platform could end in vitro fertilization altogether. So let's not get distracted by his choice of words. The reality is that his actions have already harmed women and families,” Harris said.
Donald Trump calls himself the “father of IVF,” and says Republicans support IVF more than Democrats do, during an all-woman town hall in Georgia. pic.twitter.com/MRXgssMT8Z
— The Recount (@therecount) October 16, 2024
Recall that Trump demanded to use the US army against “internal enemies.” He said that there are many “bad and sick” people in the country.
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