In light of Donald Trump’s recent comments on his plan to provide universal funding for in vitro fertilization procedures, Pro-Life Action League president Ann Scheidler offers the following statement:
Though we share his desire for Americans to have more babies, Trump’s plan to fund in vitro fertilization (IVF) for all American women is in direct contradiction with that hope. Hundreds of thousands of embryos—each of them as fully human as you or me—are created and then destroyed or frozen in IVF procedures. Those lives are discarded in a prime example of what Pope Francis calls “throwaway culture.” I call on President Trump to walk back this IVF funding scheme and instead direct those resources toward pro-family policies like paid family leave and expanding the child tax credit that will help Americans joyfully welcome each new member of the human family.
