Trump orders expanded access to IVF, a practice contrary to Catholic teaching
February 20, 2025
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that aims to expand access to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, a practice the Catholic Church warns is enormously destructive to embryonic human life.
A form of artificial reproductive technology, IVF unites a woman’s eggs and a man’s sperm outside of their respective bodies in a laboratory setting, with one or more embryonic children selected for implantation in the woman’s uterus, and the remaining embryonic children either destroyed or frozen indefinitely.
