Trump's IVF order fuels mass destruction of human embryos, not birth rate
February 19, 2025
President Donald Trump's Feb. 18 executive order on in vitro fertilization is the president's first step toward fulfilling a campaign trail promise to expand IVF -- an action the Catholic Church and other experts warn will fuel large-scale destruction of embryonic human life, while doing little to increase the nation's overall birth rate.
Trump's executive order "directs policy recommendations to protect IVF access and aggressively reduce out-of-pocket and health plan costs for such treatments," according to a statement issued that same day by the White House. It quoted Trump as saying, "We want more babies, to put it very nicely."
