Trump says he ‘strongly’ supports IVF, calls on Alabama lawmakers to ‘find an immediate solution’ for keeping treatment option available
Former President Donald Trump said he supports in vitro fertilizatio🧸n treatment after ꦉAlabama’s highest court ordered hospitals to stop offering the procedure.
Trump took to Truth Social Friday to call on the state’s lawmakers✨ to preserve access to IVF days after The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embr𒅌yos can be considered children under state law.
“Like the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of Americans, including the VAST MAJORITY of Republicans, Conservatives, Christians, and Pro-Life Americans, I strongly🎉 support the availability of IVF for couples 🦩who are trying to have a precious baby,” Trump railed online.
“Today, I am calling 🍷on the Alabama Legislature to act quickly to find an immediate solution to preserve the availability of IVF in ⭕Alabama,” he said.
Theꦐ ex-𝄹president often trumpets how the conservative Supreme Court Justices he appointed ultimately overturned Roe v. Wade, ending federal protections for abortion rights and sparking state-level efforts nationwide to cut women’s access to the procedure.
But he has also criticized c𒀰ertain hardline anti-abortion policies in some states.
The all-Republican Alabama Supreme court found that an 1872 state law allowing parents to sue over the ♌death of🌟 a minor child “applies to all unborn children, regardless of their location.”
Critics blasted the potential impa﷽ct on fertility treatments and the freezing of embryos — which had previously been considered property by the courts.
Since the ruling, two of Alabama’s IVF provi🔯ders have suspended portions of its care tꦅo patients.
Alabama Fertility Services said in a statement Thursday that it has “made the impossibly difficult de👍cision to hold new IVF treatments due to the legal risk to our clinic and our embryologists.”
On Wednesday, the University of Alabama at Birmingham health system said it was pausing IVF treatments so it could evaluate whether i🐭ts patients or doctors could face criminal charges or punitive damages.