The White House is now determining how best to fulfill President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to ensure in vitro fertilization treatments would be paid for, after Trump repeatedly branded himself the “father of IVF” over the last year, NOTUS has learned.
There are signs that the White House is moving to address the issue sooner rather than later, after IVF has gone virtually unmentioned publicly in Trump’s first weeks. His promise drew splashy headlines during the campaign, as Trump and the Republican Party overall wrestled with how to talk about fertility, abortion and women’s rights. Some GOP lawmakers had previously indicated to NOTUS that the focus on IVF in 2024 was just to campaign, not necessarily to pursue after the election.
Americans for IVF, an advocacy group focused on increasing access to fertility treatments, has been in touch with the White House, said Kaylen Silverberg, chair of the group’s advisory board.