Trump is Wrong on IVF—Support Restorative Fertility Instead, by Robert G. Marshall

By Robert G. Marshall, Catholic Culture, Apr 29, 2025

Bob Marshall served 26 years in the Virginia House of Delegates and was the chief House sponsor of the 2006 voter-approved Virginia Marriage Amendment and a ban on late term abortion. He recently wrote Reclaiming the Republic: How Christians and Other Conservatives Can Win Back America (TAN Books). …

President Donald Trump’s In Vitro Executive Order (2/18/2025), directing the federal government to expand access to IVF conception techniques, is the policy that most conservatives voted for Donald Trump “in spite of” rather than “because of”. Yes, his IVF EO supports social conservative goals, affirming “the importance of family formation and that our Nation’s public policy must make it easier for loving and longing mothers and fathers to have children.” And he also states, “As many as one in seven couples trying to have a baby are unable to conceive.”

But then President Trump wants an alliance between social conservative values and greater public access to current IVF practices which, in part, end up by consigning the “surplus population” of redundant IVF derived embryonic human beings to be used for human experimentation, frozen for possible future “implantation,” or unceremoniously discarded.

The President seemingly intended his IVF EO to apply to traditional man and woman married couples, but that will surely be contested by LGBTQ advocates, Planned Parenthood, leftist Democrats, ACLU, single working women and others. But the President’s single IVF remedy, addressing low birth and fertility rates directly. conflicts with the “Make America Healthy Again” mantra and the DOGE efficiency and cost cutting goals. ….

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