President Trump Signs Executive Order to Expand Access to In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)

President Donald Trump just signed a new executive order to make it easier and cheaper for people to use in vitro fertilization (IVF).

This move in helping women get pregnant is in direct contrast to the Left that promotes the opposite, abortion and death.

Trump wants to figure out how to make IVF more affordable in the next three months.

Right now, IVF can cost a fortune—between $12,000 and $25,000 for just one try. Yikes!

And while Paris Hilton might have gotten 7 shots over the last 4 years, most couples don’t have the extra funds to be able to do that.

So, we’ll see how this one unfolds.

🇺🇸MAKE FAMILIES GREAT AGAIN: President Trump has taken bold action to expand access to IVF!

His Executive Order directs policy recommendations to safeguard IVF treatments and lower costs—making fertility care more affordable for American families! pic.twitter.com/65ofNMcGfT

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 18, 2025

New York Times reports:

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that asked for a list of policy recommendations to protect access to in vitro fertilization and “aggressively reduce out-of-pocket and health plan costs for such treatments.”

Mr. Trump has asked the assistant to the president for domestic policy to provide that list within 90 days.

The executive order does not change any policy and does not mention some of Mr. Trump’s campaign promises on the topic, including making the treatment free. Here’s what to know.

Campaign promises
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 — a ruling that Mr. Trump claims to have brought about — patients and their doctors grew concerned about the fate of fertility treatments, especially after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in February 2024 that frozen embryos in test tubes should be considered children.

Later in the year, while on the campaign trail, Mr. Trump began expressing support for fertility treatment and in October, he gave himself the curious nickname of “father of I.V.F.” in a town-hall event that was focused on women’s issues. His campaign later said the comment was made in jest.

Democrats aren’t happy about this. Of course not.

If he does something they don’t like, they scream “Dictator!”

If he does something they DO like, they scream “PR stunt!”

God, help me to hold my tongue when I think of this wretched hive.

President Trump just expanded access to IVF.

Turns out… they lied again. pic.twitter.com/50XDcSSYr7

— Rep. Wesley Hunt Press Office (@RepWPH) February 18, 2025

The Hill adds:

Democratic lawmakers are decrying President Donald Trump’s recent order on in vitro fertilization as nothing more than a “PR stunt,” while anti-abortion groups bristled over a move that follows Trump’s campaign promise to make the procedure free.

Trump issued an executive order Tuesday directing the assistant to the president for domestic policy to give him a list of policy recommendations on protecting IVF access and “aggressively” lowering out-of-pocket and health plan costs for the procedure.

Democrats called on him to do more, perhaps looking to call his bluff.

“If he is actually serious about taking real action to accomplish his own campaign promise to make IVF free for everyone, there’s a simple way he can prove it: He can call on Senate Republicans to immediately back my Right to IVF Act that would require insurance plans to cover IVF,” said Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) in a statement.

“Otherwise, it’s all just lip-service from a known liar.”

Duckworth has long worked to create safeguards for the treatment that she used to conceive her two daughters after struggling with infertility for more than a decade. The Illinois senator reintroduced the Right to IVF Act last year, along with Democratic Sens. Corey Booker (N.J.) and Patty Murray (Wash). It sought to create a statutory right for Americans to access in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments.

Senate Republicans again blocked the bill, calling it an election year stunt by Democrats, with some offering alternative legislation. A bill from Florida Sen. Rick Scott sought to expand health savings accounts to make it easier for people to save funds for IVF.

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The goal seems to be free IVF.

HOLD ON!!! MORE BABIES ARE COMING!

Donald Trump announces that all IVF Treatments will be FREE for those who need it, or Mandate Insurance Companies Pay for it…

“We need more children in our country.” pic.twitter.com/Kh6kBcMknc

— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) August 29, 2024