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President Donald Trump Tuesday signed a decree to develop political recommendations to extend the access and affordability of Fertilization in vitro.
The decree stipulates that within 90 days, the assistant of the president of the internal policy should submit a list of “political recommendations on the protection of access to IVF and the aggressive reduction in pocket and health plan costs for IVF processing ”.
“It is the policy of my administration to ensure reliable access to the processing of IVF, including by softening unnecessary statutory or regulatory charges to make the treatment of IVF more affordable,” also indicates the order.
“I think women and families, husbands are very grateful,” Trump told Mar-A-Lago on Tuesday, where the cameras did not capture him to sign the order.
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump, who called “IVF fatherIn a town hall of Fox News in October with an entirely female audience, undertook to implement a policy of payment of in vitro fertilization treatments, without specifying how the treatments would be paid.
“I am announcing today in a major declaration according to which under the Trump administration, your government will pay, or your insurance company will be mandated to pay all the costs associated with IVF processing”, the The president said at a Michigan campaign event in August.
Trump, as well as a multitude of republican candidates and legislators, underlined his support for access to the treatment of IVF after a decision of the Supreme Court of Alabama in 2024 national tumult And made the medical procedure a political flash point in the 2024 presidential campaign.
The Supreme Court of Alabama judged that frozen embryos are children and those who destroy or damage them could be held responsible for unjustified death. Criticism warned at the time The decision could have a frightening effect on infertility treatments and those looking for them. The governor of Alabama Kay Ivey, a republican, then signed a bill to provide civil and criminal immunity to providers and patients.
Trump sought to be distant from the decision, insisting that he supports “strongly” “the availability of IVF for couples” and called the Alabama legislators to “act quickly to find an immediate solution” To maintain the procedure available in the state.
While Trump is committed to making IVF more accessible last year, the Republicans in the Congress ceased to guarantee the national access to the procedure.
In June, the Senate Republicans blocked a bill advanced by the Democrats would have done exactly thatCriticizing legislation as useless and a vote of political messaging. Republican legislators last year presented their own bills on IVF and contraception, although none is far from Congress.
Clare Foran and Ted Barrett de CNN contributed to this report.