United States: Ex-President Donald Trump promises that if he is re-elected as president, he will provide IVF treatment for women free of charge, but he did not describe how the financing of his plan would look like, as well as the precise mechanism of its implementation.
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According to him, “I’m announcing today in a major statement that under the Trump administration, your government will pay for — or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for — all costs associated with IVF treatment,” AP News reported.
“Because we want more babies, to put it nicely,” he added.
IVF treatments are expensive
IVF treatments are known to be costly, and most of them may cost tens of thousands of dollars for one cycle. There is often the need to go for more than one cycle, and the outcome cannot always be predicted.

The announcement comes as Trump has been facing a lot of criticism from the democrats for his role in the appointment of the Supreme Court justices to overturn Roe Vs. Wade, thus bringing an end to abortion rights in the country.
The decision has spurred a clamp down on abortion rights across the GOP-led states, including measures that sought to legislate that human life begins at conception, a move that would deny access to IVF.
IVF operates from multiple embryos, and in the process, some of them are bound to be destroyed.
Abortion is expected to be a driving force for Democrats and women come November, and it dominated the party’s national convention last week, including VP Harris‘ address as she accepted her party’s nomination, AP News reported.
As a response, Trump has been trying to portray himself as more neutral as possible on the issue and declare himself “very strong on women’s reproductive rights.”
Trump to support Florida’s abortion ban
During an interview with NBC before the event, Trump also hinted that he will support the abolition of the law on abortions in Florida, which is six weeks pregnant, and many women do not even realize they are pregnant.
Although Trump has not made it clear in the interview how he wants to cast his vote, the ‘yes’ vote for the ballot measure in the fall is most likely his intention. But he reiterated the previous year’s criticism that the measure, which was signed by the Republican Governor Ron DeSantis last year, was too restrictive.
He said, “I think the six weeks is too short. It has to be more time,” and, “I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks.”
Although Trump had previously called DeSantis’ decision to sign the bill a “terrible mistake.”