Senate Democrats say they don’t believe Donald Trump when he says he supports access to fertility treatments and that his pledge to offer free in vitro fertilization in a potential second administration is bogus.
“I doubt that Donald Trump even knows what the acronym ‘IVF’ stands for. Heck, I’m not even sure half the time that he can spell IVF,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth said at a press briefing. “Despite the incoherent, delusional and frankly irrational ramblings that came out of his mouth last week, he is the reason that IVF is at risk in the first place.”
Most Republicans on Tuesday once again blocked the Right to IVF Act in the Senate, a bill that mirrored Trump’s promise to cover full IVF costs if he wins in November. Of all the Republican senators who voted, only Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins joined Democrats to vote in favor.