Former President Trump pledged throughout a marketing campaign rally in Michigan Thursday that if he wins a second time period, he would mandate free in vitro fertilization remedy for girls.
“I am saying at present in a significant assertion that underneath the Trump administration, your authorities pays for — or your insurance coverage firm will probably be mandated to pay for — all prices related to IVF remedy,” Trump informed the group at Alro Metal in Potterville, Michigan. “As a result of we would like extra infants, to place it properly.”
IVF remedies are notoriously costly and may value tens of 1000’s of {dollars} for a single spherical. Many ladies require a number of rounds, and there’s no assure of success.
“And for a similar motive, we will even enable new mother and father to deduct main new child bills from their taxes,” Trump stated.
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Former President Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, arrives to talk at a marketing campaign occasion at Alro Metal Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024, in Potterville, Mich. (AP Picture/Alex Brandon)
Trump’s announcement, which was brief on particulars, comes after the Republican nominee has confronted intense scrutiny from Democrats for his position in appointing the Supreme Courtroom justices who overturned Roe v. Wade, sending the problem of abortion again to the states.
Trump has tried to current himself as average on the problem, going so far as declaring himself “very robust on girls’s reproductive rights.”
Embryo tanks sit within the IVF lab of a girls’s hospital in Boston. Trump vowed that if he wins a second time period, the federal government or insurance coverage pays for IVF remedy. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe)
In an interview with NBC earlier than Thursday’s rally, Trump signaled assist for altering Florida’s six-week abortion ban, which limits the process earlier than many ladies even know they’re pregnant.
Trump, within the interview, didn’t explicitly say how he plans to vote on the poll measure when he casts his vote this fall. However he repeated his previous criticism that the measure, signed into regulation by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis final 12 months, is just too restrictive.
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“I feel the six weeks is just too brief. It needs to be extra time,” he stated. “I’m going to be voting that we’d like greater than six weeks.”
Trump had beforehand known as DeSantis’ choice to signal the invoice a “horrible mistake.”
The Related Press contributed to this report.
