Press Release Arizona
Press Release
Reproductive Freedom for All Responds to Trump’s Comments on IVF
Washington, DC — Today, Donald Trump attempted to gloss over the Republican Party’s extremist platform and his agenda for a second term by dishonestly claiming that he would protect IVF if elected. In truth, the GOP’s platform includes anti-abortion language referencing the 14th Amendment, which could be used to ban all abortion as well as some forms of contraception and IVF if passed into law. Trump’s Project 2025 also includes the same “personhood” language and suggests that in-vitro fertilization should become “fully obsolete and ethically unthinkable.”
Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju released the following statement:
“No matter what Trump says, he is the leader of the party whose official platform uses language that could effectively ban IVF, and his Project 2025 uses that same language and details plans to make IVF ‘fully obsolete and ethically unthinkable.’ Republicans in Congress blocked Democrats’ efforts to protect IVF earlier this year, and Trump’s own running mate voted against it. He knows how unpopular the GOP’s attacks on fertility treatments are, and his comments are a desperate ploy to distract from the fact that he and his party have gutted reproductive freedom.”
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For over 50 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.