A Georgia woman is suing a fertility clinic after she says she was implanted with a stranger&#8217;s embryo.
Krystena Murray, 38, gave birth to a healthy black baby boy in December 2023, following IVF treatments. However, Murray is white, as is the male donor, who has &#8220;dirty blonde hair and blue eyes.&#8221;
After the woman says she told Coastal Fertility Specialists (CFS) of their error, the clinic notified the baby&#8217;s biological parents, who sued Murray for custody of the child. Murray says she gave up the five-month-old baby instead of continuing to pursue a legal fight she was told she couldn&#8217;t win. Murray has not seen the baby since.
&#8220;To carry a baby, to fall in love with him, to deliver him, to build that uniquely special bond between a mother and a child, all to have him taken away,&#8221; Murray <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgFHG9mdVNM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a press conference on Tuesday. &#8220;I&#8217;ll never be the same woman, I&#8217;ll never fully heal or completely move on and part of me will always long for my son.&#8221;
Murray <a href="https://abc7.com/post/savannah-georgia-woman-krystena-murray-gives-birth-another-couples-biological-child-ivf-mix-lawsuit/15929306/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> ABC 7 this week that she still thinks about the child &#8220;every single day.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s not a day that I don&#8217;t wonder what he&#8217;s doing,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I raised him for five months, but I didn&#8217;t get to see his first steps. I don&#8217;t know what his first words are. I don&#8217;t know what milestones he&#8217;s hitting.&#8221;
&#8220;I have never felt so violated, and this situation has left me emotionally and physically broken,&#8221; Murray said at the presser.
The 38-year-old said she took the baby to doctor&#8217;s appointments, breastfed him, and loved him as her own after giving birth.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not privy to what type of person he&#8217;s becoming or how he&#8217;s growing and developing, and it is very hard, and I do think of him every single day and wonder how he is,&#8221; she said.
Murray recalled the moment she first saw the baby she birthed. &#8220;The first time I saw my son, like any mom, he was beautiful and literally the best thing I&#8217;ve ever seen, but it was also immediately apparent that he was African American.&#8221;
&#8220;I would like to say my first thought is, &#8216;He&#8217;s beautiful.&#8217; My second thought was, &#8216;What happened?'&#8221; Murray continued. &#8220;Did they mess up the embryo, or did they mess up the sperm? And if they messed up the embryo, can someone take my son?&#8217; That was all within the course of the first 10 or 15 seconds of me seeing him.&#8221;
Murray, who is now pursuing fertility treatment at another clinic, says she remains in the dark about what happened to her embryo at CFS.
The suit seeks a judgment in excess of $75,000, punitive damages, recovered attorney fees, and other costs and damages, ABC 7 <a href="https://abc7.com/post/savannah-georgia-woman-krystena-murray-gives-birth-another-couples-biological-child-ivf-mix-lawsuit/15929306/">reports</a>.
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Pro-life organizations and activists issued <a href="https://x.com/RyanTAnd/status/1892017144293896644" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warnings</a> and criticism over President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/donald-trump-signs-executive-order-expanding-access-to-in-vitro-fertilization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> to expand access to IVF (in vitro fertilization), which he signed on Monday.
The popular but controversial fertility method has sparked concern from religious and pro-life Americans who have moral objections to IVF, especially due to the number of embryos that are destroyed in the IVF process.
Lila Rose, pro-life activist and founder of LiveAction, reacted Monday to the order, arguing that &#8220;IVF is NOT pro-life.&#8221;
&#8220;President Trump just signed an order expanding IVF,&#8221; she posted on X. &#8220;Only 7% of human embryos created via IVF will result in a live birth; 93% of these lives are frozen indefinitely, miscarried, or aborted. Over 1,000,000 embryos are frozen in the U.S. IVF is NOT pro-life.&#8221;
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BREAKING:
President Trump just signed an order expanding IVF
Only 7% of human embryos created via IVF will result in a live birth
93% of these lives are frozen indefinitely, miscarried, or aborted
Over 1,000,000 embryos are frozen in the U.S.
IVF is NOT pro-life
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) <a href="https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1891961616192700665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America warned that regulations need to be put in place for IVF but said the organization does not outright &#8220;object to ethical fertility treatments.&#8221;
“SBA Pro-Life America does not object to ethical fertility treatments paired with strong medical safety standards that help couples struggling with infertility,&#8221; a <a href="https://x.com/sbaprolife/status/1891993252917616780">statement</a> from the pro-life group said. &#8220;We also believe human embryos should not be destroyed. Rogue practitioners who switch human embryos, fail to follow basic safety standards, or negligently destroy human embryos desired by infertile couples must be held to account under any federal role in fertility treatment.&#8221;
&#8220;At a minimum, affordability recommendations provided under this executive order should take into account health and safety protections for parents and embryos,&#8221; the organization added.
Rachel Campos-Duffy, a Fox News co-host whose <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sean-duffy-shreds-pete-buttigieg-over-problems-at-faa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">husband works in the Trump administration</a>, suggested Trump and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should instead investigate &#8220;root causes&#8221; of the fertility crisis.
&#8220;I would much rather POTUS &amp; [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] spend our money figuring out WHY infertility in America has skyrocketed rather than subsidizing <a class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1loqt21" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://x.com/hashtag/BigPharma?src=hashtag_click">#BigPharma</a> &amp; IVF,&#8221; Campos-Duffy, a devout Catholic, wrote. &#8220;We’re always treating symptoms rather than the underlying root causes in this country!&#8221; 
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I would much rather POTUS &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RobertKennedyJr</a> spend our money figuring out WHY infertility in America has skyrocketed rather than subsidizing <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BigPharma?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BigPharma</a> &amp; IVF. We’re always treating symptoms rather than the underlying root causes in this country! <a href="https://t.co/5EM5r837Qu">pic.twitter.com/5EM5r837Qu</a>
— Rachel Campos-Duffy (@RCamposDuffy) <a href="https://twitter.com/RCamposDuffy/status/1891992330086875254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
Similarly, Catholic advocacy group CatholicVote posted online, &#8220;IVF is NOT the solution to the skyrocketing infertility rates. The IVF industry prioritizes profit over people. There are ethical forms of fertility treatment that help families identify the root cause of their infertility. Subsidizing Big Pharma and IVF is not the answer.&#8221;
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IVF is NOT the solution to the skyrocketing infertility rates.
The IVF industry prioritizes profit over people.
There are ethical forms of fertility treatment that help families identify the root cause of their infertility.
Subsidizing Big Pharma and IVF is not the answer.
— CatholicVote (@CatholicVote) <a href="https://twitter.com/CatholicVote/status/1892005606581584128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
Author Katy Faust called the EO &#8220;anti-child.&#8221; 
&#8220;&#8216;Fertility care&#8217; is a euphemism for designer, disposable, and donated (to research) lab-made babies,&#8221; she said. &#8220;<a class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1loqt21" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://x.com/hashtag/BigFertility?src=hashtag_click">#BigFertility</a> likely destroys 4x more embryonic life annually than <a class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1loqt21" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://x.com/hashtag/PlannedParenthood?src=hashtag_click">#PlannedParenthood</a>. This is an anti-child executive order.&#8221; 
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&#8220;Fertility care&#8221; is a euphemism for designer, disposable, and donated (to research) lab-made babies.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BigFertility?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BigFertility</a> likely destroys 4x more embryonic life annually than <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PlannedParenthood?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PlannedParenthood</a>.
This is an anti-child executive order. <a href="https://t.co/qSz9RP13K9">https://t.co/qSz9RP13K9</a>
— Katy Faust (@Advo_Katy) <a href="https://twitter.com/Advo_Katy/status/1891975957965099049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
Host and commentator Liz Wheeler commented generally on IVF, writing, &#8220;Over 90% of children created by IVF die, either left frozen and abandoned, destroyed due to eugenics, experimented on, or miscarried. Only 7% are born. It’s dreadful.&#8221;
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Over 90% of children created by IVF die, either left frozen and abandoned, destroyed due to eugenics, experimented on, or miscarried. Only 7% are born. It’s dreadful.
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1891961914084753453?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Trump administration seems open to IVF regulations backed by pro-life groups and potential religious exemptions. As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/donald-trump-signs-executive-order-expanding-access-to-in-vitro-fertilization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> on Monday, the administration noted that the EO calls for policy recommendations, which will include the input of pro-life groups.
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More on IVF order: I asked the White House about concerns regarding conscience protections for religious Americans who object to IVF + concerns about the discarding of embryos.
WH official pointed out to me that the EO calls for policy recommendations, said part of that process… <a href="https://t.co/fVRjzIsPLD">https://t.co/fVRjzIsPLD</a>
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1892044035600101793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
Back in October, Trump signaled that he was open to religious exemptions for a potential mandate that would require insurance companies to cover the costs of IVF treatments.
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Donald Trump says he&#8217;s open religious exemptions to his proposed IVF mandate: “It sounds, to me, like a pretty good idea, frankly&#8230;certainly if there’s a religious problem I think people should go with that..we’ll look at that.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/PrxEtTEeOp">pic.twitter.com/PrxEtTEeOp</a>
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1847295911828873340?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/donald-trump-signs-executive-order-expanding-access-to-in-vitro-fertilization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump Signs Executive Order On ‘Expanding Access To In Vitro Fertilization’</a>

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday from Mar-a-Lago that is focused on expanding access to IVF (in vitro fertilization).
Trump&#8217;s executive order calls for policy recommendations to make it easier for families to access IVF and to &#8220;aggressively reduce out-of-pocket and health plan costs for such treatments,&#8221; White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday. According to the <a href="https://www.asrm.org/globalassets/_asrm/advocacy-and-policy/cpl/pdfs/tricare-white-paper-final.pdf">American Society for Reproductive Medicine</a>, one cycle of IVF in the United States costs around $15,000.
&#8220;Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy shall submit to the President a list of policy recommendations on protecting IVF access and aggressively reducing out-of-pocket and health plan costs for IVF treatment,&#8221; the order states.
The order also emphasizes the need of addressing policies that increase the costs of IVF treatments, and it stresses the importance of family formation and public policy that makes it easier for mothers and fathers to have children.
&#8220;Today, many hopeful couples dream of starting a family, but as many as one in seven are unable to conceive a child,&#8221; reads the order. &#8220;Despite their hopes and efforts, infertility struggles can make conception difficult, turning what should be a joyful experience into an emotional and financial struggle.  My Administration recognizes the importance of family formation, and as a Nation, our public policy must make it easier for loving and longing mothers and fathers to have children.&#8221;
&#8220;In vitro fertilization (IVF) offers hope to men and women experiencing fertility challenges,&#8221; it continues. &#8220;Americans need reliable access to IVF and more affordable treatment options, as the cost per cycle can range from $12,000 to $25,000.  Providing support, awareness, and access to affordable fertility treatments can help these families navigate their path to parenthood with hope and confidence.&#8221;
&#8220;PROMISES MADE. PROMISES KEPT,&#8221; tweeted Leavitt, referencing Trump&#8217;s campaign vow to do his best to make the fertility treatments more widely available to women.
IVF became heavily part of the national conversation when, last February, an Alabama court ruled on a case dealing with the topic. Media outlets launched a frenzied news cycle by inaccurately suggested that the Alabama Supreme Court banned IVF, though in reality, Justice Jay Mitchell ruled in favor of <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/20/alabama-supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-embryonic-human-life/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">protecting embryonic human life,</a> writing in his opinion that “unborn children are ‘children’” under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act.
Trump <a href="https://x.com/TPostMillennial/status/1846590324547727603">described</a> himself as the “father of IVF” during a Fox News town hall with women on the campaign trail, calling the Republican Party “the party for I.V.F.” His campaign has approached the controversial IVF issue from the stance that the Republican Party supports women, supports fertility, and supports more babies.
“We are going to be, under the Trump administration, we are going to be paying for that treatment,” Trump <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-wants-make-ivf-treatments-paid-government-insurance-compani-rcna168804?_branch_match_id=1320796456473746758&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=NBC%20News&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXz0tKzkstL9ZLLCjQy8nMy9bPDfSPyM6vDC%2F2TQIAkqkhGSQAAAA%3D">told NBC News in August</a>, adding: “We’re going to be mandating that the insurance company pay.”
“Because we want more babies, to put it very nicely,&#8221; he explained on another occasion. &#8220;And for this same reason, we will also allow new parents to deduct major newborn expenses from their taxes, so that parents that have a beautiful baby will be able, so we’re pro family. But the IVF treatments are expensive. It’s very hard for many people to do it and to get it, but I’ve been in favor of IVF, right from the beginning.”
<div id="attachment_878919" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/donald-trump-signs-executive-order-expanding-access-to-in-vitro-fertilization/us-politics-trump-145" rel="attachment wp-att-878919"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-878919" class="wp-image-878919 size-large" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2199781740-1-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2199781740-1-864x576.jpg 864w, https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2199781740-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2199781740-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2199781740-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>US President Donald Trump speaks during signing of executive orders at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 18, 2025. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP) (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)</div>
At a rally in Michigan in August, Trump <a href="https://x.com/theblaze/status/1829267906875764871">promised</a> that under a future Trump administration, “your government will pay for or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for all costs associated with IVF treatment.”
The former president added: “We want more babies!”
It&#8217;s a topic that some on the Right have serious moral and ethical qualms with, given the expendable way in which human embryos are often treated. Experts like The Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Emma Waters <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/alabama-embryo-ruling-brings-much-needed-regulation-fertility-industry-opinion-1872867" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">have argued</a> that the Alabama ruling brings “much-needed regulation” to the fertility industry in the United States, arguing in favor of conscience protections and reporting requirements for the process, such as how many embryos are created.
Asked by The Daily Wire about concerns regarding conscience protections for religious Americans who object to IVF, as well as concerns about the discarding of embryos, a White House official pointed out that the executive order calls for policy recommendations. Part of that process will include getting input from the Hill and other stakeholders, including pro-life groups, the official said.
In October, Trump said that he was open to religious exemptions to his proposed in vitro fertilization (IVF) mandate that would require insurance companies to cover the costs of IVF treatments, telling EWTN&#8217;s Raymond Arroyo: “It sounds, to me, like a pretty good idea, frankly.”
Arroyo had pointed out to Trump that many Catholics and Christians object to the fertility treatments on moral grounds. The Catholic Church is opposed to IVF and <a href="https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/573/#zoom=z">says</a> that it is “morally unacceptable.&#8221;
“As you know,” Arroyo pointed out, “some Catholics feel, and the Church believes, that when you implement this technology, you’re killing embryos. Will you have a religious exemption to your IVF mandate for religious organizations and businesses that feel, ‘This violates my religious principles?'&#8221;
“I haven’t been asked that, but it sounds like a pretty good idea, frankly,” Trump responded at the time, adding: “Even Catholics, a lot of them, they want IVF. It’s fertilization, basically, they view that as helping the family, helping parents have a child, and it’s a very popular thing, but certainly if there is a religious problem, I think people should go with that. I really think they should be able to do that. But we’ll look into that.”

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Donald Trump Signs Executive Order On ‘Expanding Access To In Vitro Fertilization’

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A federal mandate around in vitro fertilization (IVF) would be dangerous, cautioned Catholic Bishop Michael Burbidge in a new <a href="https://www.arlingtondiocese.org/2025/01/22/the-christian-family-in-vitro-fertilization-and-heroic-witness-to-true-love/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> released Wednesday.
Burbidge, who oversees Virginia&#8217;s Arlington diocese just across the river from Washington, D.C., did not mention President Donald Trump by name, but he warned against Trump&#8217;s recent support for the assisted reproductive technology.
IVF is a procedure <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/in-vitro-fertilization/about/pac-20384716" target="_blank" rel="noopener">used</a> by couples with infertility where embryos are created in a medical lab setting, and then an attempt is made to manually implant the embryo into a woman&#8217;s uterus to kickstart a pregnancy.
The Catholic Church <a href="https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/reproductive-technology/begotten-not-made-a-catholic-view-of-reproductive-technology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opposes</a> IVF because of the ethical concerns around the many additional embryos who are created but do not survive the process or are frozen indefinitely and also because IVF separates the procreative act from conception.
&#8220;In recent months, some in the public square have advocated a greater role of government in providing IVF as an entitlement, either by means of direct funding or by compelling health insurance companies to do so,&#8221; Burbidge wrote in his letter.
&#8220;In a misguided attempt to respond to challenges surrounding marriage, family formation, falling birth rates, and fertility, elected officials are rushing to support an IVF industry that kills or freezes hundreds of thousands of embryonic children every year and facilitates the exploitative practice of surrogacy,&#8221; the bishop said. &#8220;Some even claim that mandating or promoting IVF is pro-life because the process may produce children, but this ignores the moral injustices at the core of the IVF process and the fatal consequences for so many of the embryonic children brought about through that process.&#8221;
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During his campaign, President Donald Trump embraced IVF, clashing with Republican judges on Alabama&#8217;s state Supreme Court, who <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-alabama-governor-signs-ivf-protections-into-law-2024-03-07/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> early last year that embryos created via IVF were to be considered people. The ruling left the state&#8217;s fertility clinics and IVF patients scrambling as it meant a person could potentially be sued for destroying embryos.
Trump referred to himself as the &#8220;father of IVF&#8221; after announcing his administration would preserve access to the fertility procedure and even have it covered by the government or insurance companies.
&#8220;We want more babies,&#8221; Trump said.
Burbidge cautioned that a federal IVF entitlement or mandate would be &#8220;an illegitimate handing over to Caesar the things of God&#8221; and compared it to the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act, warning it would inevitably infringe on health care workers&#8217; conscience rights.
Instead, the bishop said, the federal government can do other things to support Americans having families, including encouraging earlier marriage and helping with pregnancy and fertility expenses.
&#8220;It is simply wrong that federal healthcare policy socializes the cost of sterility while privatizing the basic costs of pregnancy and childbirth or the cost of restorative fertility treatments for conditions like endometriosis,&#8221; Burbidge said.
As far as IVF goes, the bishop urged elected officials to ensure IVF clinics follow &#8220;basic health and safety regulations that would minimize the harms associated with their industry.&#8221;
He also suggested mandating &#8220;straightforward informed consent disclosures for prospective parents that clearly convey the ethical and medical consequences of the IVF process and effective life-affirming alternatives.&#8221;
Burbidge noted that European countries regulate IVF and surrogacy more strictly than the U.S. does.
&#8220;In our time, I have observed with pastoral concern the growing acceptance of IVF as an apparent solution to the heartache of infertility,&#8221; Burbidge wrote.
&#8220;I recognize that what the Church teaches about IVF represents a &#8216;hard saying&#8217; that is convenient for many to ignore,&#8221; Burbidge said, citing John&#8217;s Gospel, &#8220;and that many Catholics and others of goodwill may have never encountered the Church’s teaching on this issue.&#8221;
The bishop acknowledged that fertility and IVF are &#8220;incredibly sensitive&#8221; topics that affect many people and deserve to be treated with &#8220;compassion&#8221; and emphasized that &#8220;every person has immeasurable value regardless of how he or she was conceived.&#8221;

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Former President Donald Trump is open to religious exemptions to his proposed in vitro fertilization (IVF) mandate that would require insurance companies to cover the costs of IVF treatments.
“It sounds, to me, like a pretty good idea, frankly,” Trump told EWTN&#8217;s Raymond Arroyo, as they spoke on Thursday evening at the 79th Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York City.
Arroyo had pointed out to Trump that many Catholics and Christians object to the fertility treatments on moral grounds. The Catholic Church is opposed to IVF and <a href="https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/573/#zoom=z">says</a> that it is &#8220;morally unacceptable,&#8221; <a href="https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19870222_respect-for-human-life_en.html">teaching that</a> “the gift of human life must be actualized in marriage through the specific and exclusive acts of husband and wife, in accordance with the laws inscribed in their persons and in their union.”
&#8220;As you know,&#8221; Arroyo pointed out, &#8220;some Catholics feel, and the Church believes, that when you implement this technology, you&#8217;re killing embryos. Will you have a religious exemption to your IVF mandate for religious organizations and businesses that feel, &#8216;This violates my religious principles?'&#8221;
&#8220;I haven&#8217;t been asked that, but it sounds like a pretty good idea, frankly,&#8221; Trump responded, adding: &#8220;Even Catholics, a lot of them, they want IVF. It&#8217;s fertilization, basically, they view that as helping the family, helping parents have a child, and it&#8217;s a very popular thing, but certainly if there is a religious problem, I think people should go with that. I really think they should be able to do that. But we&#8217;ll look into that.&#8221;
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Donald Trump says he&#8217;s open religious exemptions to his proposed IVF mandate: “It sounds, to me, like a pretty good idea, frankly&#8230;certainly if there’s a religious problem I think people should go with that..we’ll look at that.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/PrxEtTEeOp">pic.twitter.com/PrxEtTEeOp</a>
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1847295911828873340?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
Trump <a href="https://x.com/TPostMillennial/status/1846590324547727603">described</a> himself as the &#8220;father of IVF&#8221; during a Fox News town hall with women this week, calling the Republican Party &#8220;the party for I.V.F.&#8221; Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/us/politics/trump-ivf-abortion.html">told the New York Times</a> that the &#8220;father&#8221; remark was “a joke President Trump made in jest when he was enthusiastically answering a question about I.V.F.”
The Trump campaign has approached the controversial IVF issue from the stance that the Republican party supports women, supports fertility, and supports more babies.
&#8220;We are going to be, under the Trump administration, we are going to be paying for that treatment,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-wants-make-ivf-treatments-paid-government-insurance-compani-rcna168804?_branch_match_id=1320796456473746758&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=NBC%20News&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXz0tKzkstL9ZLLCjQy8nMy9bPDfSPyM6vDC%2F2TQIAkqkhGSQAAAA%3D">told NBC News in August</a>, adding: &#8220;We&#8217;re going to be mandating that the insurance company pay.&#8221;
At a rally in Michigan in August, Trump <a href="https://x.com/theblaze/status/1829267906875764871">promised</a> that under a future Trump administration, &#8220;your government will pay for or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for all costs associated with IVF treatment.&#8221;
The former president added: “We want more babies!”

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> made a new campaign promise on Thursday, saying his administration would pay for in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments for &#8220;all Americans&#8221; or mandate that insurance companies pay for it.
Asked about IVF by a reporter before his rally in Potterville, Michigan, Trump said he was &#8220;always for IVF.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s helping women and men and families,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;We need great children, beautiful children in our country; we actually need them. Under the Trump administration, we are going to be paying for that treatment &#8230; for all Americans to get it.&#8221;
The Republican presidential nominee promised that either the federal government will pay for IVF or his administration will &#8220;be mandating the insurance company pay.&#8221;
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BREAKING: President Trump announces that his administration will either pay for IVF or mandate that all insurance companies cover the treatment:
&#8220;Under the Trump administration, we are going to be paying for that treatment, so we are paying for that treatment&#8230;all Americans… <a href="https://t.co/jg0zgIre8Z">pic.twitter.com/jg0zgIre8Z</a>
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1829264858279526831?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Trump officially proposed the new IVF policy during his rally in Michigan, telling supporters, &#8220;I am announcing today that under the Trump administration, your government will pay for or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for all costs associated with IVF treatment. Because we want more babies, to put it very nicely.&#8221;
&#8220;And for this same reason, we will also allow new parents to deduct major newborn expenses from their taxes,&#8221; he added.
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&#8220;I am announcing today that under the Trump administration, your government will pay for or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for all costs associated with IVF treatment.&#8221;
&#8220;We want more babies!&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/ZtsGkNUdl6">pic.twitter.com/ZtsGkNUdl6</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1829268507919311287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The IVF issue was thrown into the national spotlight in February when the Alabama Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alabama-supreme-court-says-couple-can-continue-wrongful-death-lawsuit-over-destruction-of-frozen-embryos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> that frozen embryos are children. The ruling caused an uproar from Democrat and Republican politicians, including Trump, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-urges-alabama-legislature-to-preserve-ivf-says-gop-will-always-support-families-pursuing-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> on the Alabama legislature to act to protect access to IVF.
“Under my leadership, the Republican Party will always support the creation of strong, thriving, healthy American families. We want to make it easier for mothers and fathers to have babies, not harder! That includes supporting the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every State in America,” Trump wrote at the time. “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. Today, I am calling on the Alabama Legislature to act quickly to find an immediate solution to preserve the availability of IVF in Alabama.”
The Alabama legislature overwhelmingly passed legislation protecting access to IVF in the state and the bill was <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/alabama-lawmakers-ivf-protection-bill-vote-rcna141710" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> into law by Republican Gov. Kay Ivey.
Despite Trump&#8217;s support of IVF, Vice President Kamala Harris has attacked Trump over the issue and blamed him for the Alabama Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling.
&#8220;He literally is the architect of this entire crisis,&#8221; Harris <a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/725356276321677" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a video. &#8220;What happened in Alabama is a direct result of what happened in the United States Supreme Court. He hand-picked three members of the United States Supreme Court with the full intention for them to overturn Roe v. Wade.&#8221;

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Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) has repeatedly used his &#8220;<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ivf-personal-tim-walz-family-kamala-harris-touts-reproductive-rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal</a>&#8221; story of using in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments to attack former President Donald Trump and Republicans on so-called &#8220;reproductive rights&#8221; &#8212; but it turns out that story is not true.
The Kamala Harris presidential campaign <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/us/tim-walz-fertility-pregnancy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> this week that the Walzes did not use IVF to conceive either of their children. Instead, the couple used intrauterine insemination (IUI), which notably does not involve creating or discarding embryos.
The difference is vital. Walz used his non-existent IVF journey as a political tool to attack the Right, suggesting his family would not exist if it were up to Trump, his running mate JD Vance, and Republicans. In fact, Walz recently <a href="https://x.com/Tim_Walz/status/1816600635447607619?lang=en">said</a>, &#8220;JD Vance opposing the miracle of IVF is a direct attack on my family and so many others.&#8221; The suggestion <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-ivf-abortion-alabama-republicans-8215336740a5963b57bbd970b47bb3a7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">does not align</a> with former President Donald Trump and JD Vance&#8217;s position on IVF in the first place, but it also rings hollow since IUI doesn&#8217;t discard embryos.
Walz and the Harris campaign have repeated the false claim on numerous occasions to attack their opponents. In fact, in Walz&#8217;s first political rally after being tapped as the VP nominee by Harris, he used the false narrative.
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&#8220;This gets personal for me and my family,&#8221; Walz said, suggesting IVF will be restricted under a Trump administration. &#8220;When my wife and I decided to have children we spent years going through infertility treatments. And I remember praying every night for a call for good news. The pit in my stomach when the phone rang, and the agony when we heard that the treatments hadn&#8217;t worked. So this wasn&#8217;t by chance that when we welcomed my daughter into the world, we named her Hope.&#8221;
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Here’s Walz two weeks ago in Philadelphia talking about IVF: “This gets personal for me and my family” <a href="https://t.co/ElUSdMu4QO">pic.twitter.com/ElUSdMu4QO</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1825900043078980035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
Walz echoed the falsehood during at least two other rallies; one in Wisconsin and one in Arizona, Grabien founder Tom Elliott highlighted:
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Here’s Walz in Wisconsin two weeks ago again claiming his kids were conceived thanks to IVF: “Some of you may have heard this. [IVF] is personal for my wife and I. When Gwen &amp; I decided to have children, we went through years of fertility treatments. The phone would ring,… <a href="https://t.co/CVOQcIPeLZ">pic.twitter.com/CVOQcIPeLZ</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1825901297481986325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Here’s Walz recently in Arizona telling the same story, this time while pretending to cry: “I’m not crying you’re crying” <a href="https://t.co/ugTb9NMF1e">pic.twitter.com/ugTb9NMF1e</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1825902410381840851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
The Harris campaign amplified Walz&#8217;s fake story on its official X account, too. In one posted video clip, Walz says he &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t have a family&#8221; if it were up to Vance.
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Gov. <a href="https://twitter.com/Tim_Walz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Tim_Walz</a>: If it was up to JD Vance, I wouldn&#8217;t have a family because of IVF. Democrats are investing in prenatal care. We&#8217;re the ones that are for universal pre-K. We&#8217;re the ones that are providing school meals. I&#8217;m not gonna back down one bit on this whole family values… <a href="https://t.co/jdbKmpuh4K">pic.twitter.com/jdbKmpuh4K</a>
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHQ/status/1821904074649883007?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Governor Walz and Mrs. Walz have two children, Hope and Gus,&#8221; the Harris campaign further said, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ivf-personal-tim-walz-family-kamala-harris-touts-reproductive-rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. &#8220;Governor Walz and Mrs. Walz struggled with years of fertility challenges and had their daughter, Hope, through reproductive health care like IVF — further cementing his commitment to ensuring all Americans have access to this care.&#8221;
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The Harris campaign wishes a happy IVF Day to everyone except for <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a> <a href="https://t.co/Oh8hITubWW">pic.twitter.com/Oh8hITubWW</a>
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHQ/status/1816568062201454621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
Walz piggybacked on the post to repeat the falsehood and attack Vance.
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&#8220;Even if you’ve never gone through the hell of infertility, someone you know has,&#8221; Walz posted to X. &#8220;When Gwen and I were having trouble getting pregnant, the anxiety and frustration blotted out the sun. JD Vance opposing the miracle of IVF is a direct attack on my family and so many others.&#8221;
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Even if you’ve never gone through the hell of infertility, someone you know has. When Gwen and I were having trouble getting pregnant, the anxiety and frustration blotted out the sun.
JD Vance opposing the miracle of IVF is a direct attack on my family and so many others. <a href="https://t.co/tWhQEPjft2">https://t.co/tWhQEPjft2</a>
— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tim_Walz/status/1816600635447607619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
And last month, again attacking Trump and Vance, Walz on MSNBC falsely claimed his family used IVF.
&#8220;Today is IVF day. Thank God for IVF, my wife and I have two beautiful children,&#8221; the governor said, adding that Republicans need to &#8220;mind their own damn business.&#8221;
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THREAD: In addition to his military career &amp; drunk driving arrest, there’s another topic about which <a href="https://twitter.com/Tim_Walz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Tim_Walz</a> has been lying for political purposes —the conception of his own children. Since IVF treatments entered the news earlier this year, Walz has been repeatedly claiming he… <a href="https://t.co/hHdfSsiGaI">pic.twitter.com/hHdfSsiGaI</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1825898567304728890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-admits-tim-walz-campaign-lied-about-his-drunk-driving-arrest-numerous-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN Admits Tim Walz Campaign Lied About His Drunk Driving Arrest Numerous Times</a>

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A pair of GOP senators introduced a bill on Monday to protect in vitro fertilization (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ivf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IVF</a>) at the federal level.
The goal of the <a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2024.05.17%20--%20IVF%20Protection%20Act%20(LYN24343)1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;IVF Protection Act,&#8221;</a> spearheaded by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Katie Britt (R-AL), is to discourage states from prohibiting access to IVF services.
If enacted, the legislation would amend the Social Security Act to require that states do not block IVF services as a condition to receive federal Medicaid funding.
&#8220;IVF has given miraculous hope to millions of Americans, and it has given families across the country the gift of children,&#8221; Cruz said in a <a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sens-cruz-britt-introduce-legislation-protecting-ivf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
Britt said the legislation &#8220;affirms both life and liberty — family and freedom, and I look forward to working with my colleagues to enact it into law.&#8221;
Senate Republicans <a href="https://apnews.com/article/congress-ivf-access-abortion-alabama-bill-ruling-7f68248f36900d4583d9b181f3b4e380" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously blocked</a> legislation from their Democrat colleagues that would have established a federal right to IVF treatments.
The AP <a href="https://apnews.com/article/congress-ivf-access-abortion-alabama-bill-ruling-7f68248f36900d4583d9b181f3b4e380" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> many GOP lawmakers do not want the federal government to meddle with <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ivf-embryo-personhood-abortion-bills-rulings-7ed8b0f8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">state-level decisions</a> on reproductive care after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Cruz and Britt stressed in <a href="https://www.britt.senate.gov/news/press-releases/u-s-senators-katie-britt-ted-cruz-introduce-ivf-protection-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press releases</a> about their new bill that the legislation would not compel any person or organization to provide IVF services.
They also emphasized that the &#8220;IVF Protection Act&#8221; permits states to ensure appropriate &#8220;health and safety standards&#8221; for practicing the fertilization treatment.
Former President Donald Trump, who is running for another term in the White House in this year&#8217;s election, has voiced support for IVF as polls show it to be a <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/538/ivf-abortion-access-shape-2024-election/story?id=108301112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">major issue</a> for voters.
In a video last month, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-releases-long-awaited-abortion-position-says-policies-should-be-left-to-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praised</a> Alabama for passing a bill to protect IVF services after a state high court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alabama-supreme-court-says-couple-can-continue-wrongful-death-lawsuit-over-destruction-of-frozen-embryos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> frozen embryos should be recognized and protected as unborn children.
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“We want to make it easier for mothers and families to have babies, not harder,” Trump said. “That includes supporting the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every state in America.”
Pro-life advocates had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alabama-supreme-court-says-couple-can-continue-wrongful-death-lawsuit-over-destruction-of-frozen-embryos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lauded</a> the Alabama Supreme Court for the ruling that determined the state&#8217;s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applied to frozen embryos.
&#8220;Each person, from the tiniest embryo to an elder nearing the end of his life, has incalculable value that deserves and is guaranteed legal protection,” Live Action President Lila Rose said.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) with Katie Britt (R-AL) and other senators.

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s team excoriated President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s re-election campaign over a Mother&#8217;s Day video ad that cast Trump as bad for women and families ahead of the expected rematch between Trump and Biden in the 2024 contest that is only months away.
&#8220;What a sad, miserable, cowardly existence Crooked Joe Biden and his campaign must have to make such a disgusting ad on such a joyous day,&#8221; Trump&#8217;s team said, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-team-fires-back-biden-campaigns-mothers-day-video" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per Fox News</a>. &#8220;Their lives are obviously filled with anger, hate, and resentment because they clearly suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome.&#8221; They added, &#8220;President Trump continues to live rent-free in their pea-sized brains, even on Mother&#8217;s Day.&#8221;
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NEW AD: Donald Trump wants to separate mothers from their children and allow laws that rip away IVF access and monitor women’s pregnancies. 
This Mother’s Day, do the moms in your life a favor: Stop Trump. <a href="https://t.co/kaxfsflLKp">pic.twitter.com/kaxfsflLKp</a>
&mdash; Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHQ/status/1789687513176494469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The &#8220;Biden-Harris HQ&#8221; account on X posted a video ad on Sunday and claimed Trump &#8220;wants to separate mothers from their children and allow laws that rip away IVF access and monitor women’s pregnancies. This Mother’s Day, do the moms in your life a favor: Stop Trump.&#8221; The ad itself begins with heartwarming images of women holding a child and text that reads, &#8220;Happy Mother&#8217;s Day&#8230;&#8221; What comes next is a record scratch followed by clips painting Trump as being against pregnant women and abortion access.
Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-mothers-day-ad-attacking-donald-trump-1899670" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> a Biden campaign official said in an accompanying press release, &#8220;The stakes of this election are high for all Americans, but especially moms across our country who will suffer under a second Trump term.&#8221; The spokesperson added, &#8220;Under Trump, the government will be allowed to monitor their pregnancies, and rip their families apart. &#8230; Families depend on moms – and moms deserve a President they can depend on to protect their rights, work to lower their costs, and fight for them. Donald Trump wasn&#8217;t and isn&#8217;t that President, but Joe Biden is.&#8221;
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Trump said in a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112387302489868990" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent post</a> to Truth Social that he never said that &#8220;some states may choose to monitor women’s pregnancies to possibly prosecute for violating any abortion bans.&#8221; He added, &#8220;This was made up by Democrats and the Fake News Media. After 50 years, Abortion (sic) is now up to the States, where everybody, Republican and Democrat, plus all legal scholars and experts, have wanted it to be.&#8221;
Noting state-level actions to preserve access to abortion in the follow-up to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Trump concluded, &#8220;It is all working, will never go back to the Federal Government, and our Country will soon start uniting on this long contentious issue. At the same time, nobody wants to see abortion in the 7th, 8th, or 9th month or, execution after birth, as some states, like the former Democrat Governor of Virginia said, was permitted. Listen to your heart, but common sense must also be applied. Remember, politicians must also win elections!&#8221;

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It&#8217;s not easy to find examples of practices that are legal everywhere in the United States, but also banned in Canada and most of Europe on moral grounds. Usually it works the other way around. Canada doesn&#8217;t place any restrictions whatsoever on abortion, for example. The government will actually pay its citizens to kill their children at any point in a mother&#8217;s pregnancy. But in the U.S., in many states at least, there are some limits on that kind of barbarism.
Meanwhile in Europe, as I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1340-the-euthanasia-business-is-booming-as-western-civilization-gives-up-on-itself">discussed</a> yesterday, there&#8217;s an extremely permissive attitude toward euthanasia. It&#8217;s easy for young adults to get their doctors to kill them in The Netherlands, even when they don&#8217;t have any kind of terminal illness. But in the U.S., killing patients for no reason is still frowned upon by major medical associations. For now, anyway.
So in general, we&#8217;re more restrictive when it comes to most immoral and unethical medical procedures. Canada and Europe take the opposite approach.
But there is one glaring exception to this rule. And it concerns commercial surrogacy, or the act of paying a woman to carry someone else&#8217;s baby, usually via in vitro fertilization (IVF). This is distinct from so-called &#8220;altruistic surrogacy,&#8221; where there&#8217;s no profit motive. Yet still nearly as many ethical problems, despite the name. Commercial surrogacy is legally <a href="https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/eu-parliament-designates-surrogacy-as-human-trafficking/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">equated</a> with human trafficking by the E.U., because it provides significant financial incentives for women to rent out their body to strangers. So they ban it. The <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/biologics-radiopharmaceuticals-genetic-therapies/legislation-guidelines/assisted-human-reproduction/prohibitions-related-surrogacy.html#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">same is true</a> in Canada.
It&#8217;s not true in the United States, however. This week, the state of Michigan <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news/press-releases/2024/04/01/whitmer-signs-bills-decriminalizing-surrogacy-and-protecting-ivf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">became</a> the last state in the union to decriminalize commercial surrogacy. In other words, in all 50 states, you can now rent a woman&#8217;s body and use it to carry your child, without suffering any criminal penalties.
That seems like it can&#8217;t possibly be true, but it is, <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news/press-releases/2024/04/01/whitmer-signs-bills-decriminalizing-surrogacy-and-protecting-ivf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Michigan&#8217;s governor. Her office put out a statement saying that Michigan had been &#8220;the only state in the nation to criminalize surrogacy contracts.&#8221; To be clear, there are still <a href="https://www.circlesurrogacy.com/resources/surrogacy-by-states#:~:text=Are%20Surrogates%20Legal%20in%20Every,considered%20legal%3A%20Nebraska%20and%20Louisiana." target="_blank" rel="noopener">several states</a> that say they won&#8217;t enforce commercial surrogacy agreements, but broad criminal bans don&#8217;t apply, as far as I can tell.
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That&#8217;s extremely good news for the surrogacy industry, which is worth around fourteen billion dollars as of 2022. By 2033, analysts expect the surrogacy industry will <a href="https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2023/09/12/surrogacy-on-the-rise-#:~:text=Global%20Market%20Insights%20estimates%20the,related%20to%20for%20another%20person" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explode in value</a> to $129 billion — an increase of about 900% in just a decade. For perspective, the global weight loss market — which is obviously gigantic, no pun intended — is <a href="https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/weight-management-market#:~:text=The%20global%20weight%20management%20market,9.94%25%20from%202023%20to%202030." target="_blank" rel="noopener">valued</a> around $140 billion. So we&#8217;re talking about surrogacy being roughly as big as the weight loss industry in just a few years. You&#8217;ll be seeing surrogacy ads as often as Ozempic commercials.
There are all kinds of reasons why the industry is doing so well. One of them is that infertility is on the rise. Roughly one in ten men and women who are at childbearing age are <a href="https://www.ccrmivf.com/blog/is-infertility-on-the-rise/#:~:text=Infertility%20rates%20are%20rising%2C%20according,of%20childbearing%20age%20have%20infertility." target="_blank" rel="noopener">infertile</a> in this country. In the 1950s, worldwide, each woman had an average of five children. That number is now down to two children, and it&#8217;s falling further. I&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-origins-of-the-anti-human-depopulation-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outlined</a> some of the reasons for this infertility crisis in the past.
Suffice it to say, it&#8217;s something the most powerful Left-wing activist groups in the country, including Planned Parenthood, have been hoping to achieve for quite some time. They explicitly want to depopulate the Earth, so they welcome the fact that sperm counts have dropped 38% in a decade. They&#8217;re happy to see more women killing their children, and more men removing themselves from the gene pool.
But the problem here is bigger than infertility because surrogacy is not an appropriate or moral or justifiable response to infertility in any event. Surrogacy (especially commercial surrogacy) is arguably the most direct form of human commodification this side of slavery. It is the purchasing and renting of human bodies, organs, and body parts. That&#8217;s true regardless of your motivation for doing it. And we don&#8217;t allow that kind of transaction in any other context. Federal law prohibits you from selling your organs on eBay. Virtually every jurisdiction in this country outlaws prostitution. People are not chattel.
But in this one case, it&#8217;s allowed, because otherwise, we&#8217;re told that infertile couples and gay men wouldn&#8217;t be able to have children. Therefore, it&#8217;s worth the sacrifice of human embryos. It&#8217;s worth turning a handful of poor countries like Georgia and Ukraine into surrogacy hubs. The women in these countries are selling their bodies for rent to foreigners who are looking for a lower rate, compared to what they might find in the United States. And a lot of couples, particularly gay couples, are taking advantage of that offer.
You might remember that, during the gay marriage debate, we heard the familiar line that two consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want, they&#8217;re not hurting anyone. But that was never true, and surrogacy makes that extremely clear. Surrogacy deprives children of their mothers it robs them of a connection that is hard-wired from birth. No matter how much propaganda you force on children, no matter how many times they hear the lie that having two fathers is completely normal and natural, they know it&#8217;s not true.
There&#8217;s a video circulating online right now that makes this point tragically clear. It&#8217;s footage of a surrogate mother wishing her child a happy birthday. This is a mother who sold her eggs a few years ago to a couple of gay guys, and only sees her daughter through an occasional video call. Here&#8217;s one of those calls:
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As a parent, that clip angers me at the deepest levels of my soul. The thought of my own children being deprived of their mother is horrifying. To lose their mother would be to lose a part of themselves. Like losing a limb, but worse. And yet this is done to children intentionally, and all for the sake of satisfying the wishes of gay couple.
That clip, by the way, is from Surrogacy Concern, which is a group in the U.K. that opposes surrogacy. And yet, in the UK, commercial surrogacy isn&#8217;t generally allowed. Contracts for commercial surrogacy aren&#8217;t enforceable for the most part. But they still allow so-called &#8220;altruistic surrogacy,&#8221; where the surrogate doesn&#8217;t accept any payment, outside of expenses that are incurred.
But as you can see from the video, this model isn&#8217;t much of an improvement over the commercial model. &#8220;Altruistic surrogacy&#8221; isn&#8217;t remotely altruistic, when you consider its impact on both the child and the mother. It&#8217;s devastating and painful for the mother in ways she must vividly understand. And devastating and painful for the child in ways that she cannot yet fully understand. But one day she will.
And yet, somehow, it&#8217;s likely that things are only going to get more and more deranged and dehumanizing from here, as we continue to divorce human reproduction from its natural context. The ultimate dream for many on the Left is to one day make men into surrogates via implanted uteruses. I don&#8217;t know if this will ever be scientifically possible — I doubt it will be, as sustaining a pregnancy requires a lot more than just a uterus, after all — but I do know what some trans activists plan to do with that power should they ever be granted it. Here&#8217;s one video, which was surfaced recently by Robby Starbuck, that gives you some idea:
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This man who says he’s trans wants to get the first trans uterus transplant so he can get an abortion. Folks, this is a death cult. <a href="https://t.co/iFaNZfqICg">pic.twitter.com/iFaNZfqICg</a>
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He&#8217;s grinning about killing a child for the same reason that Lia Thomas grins while beating female swimmers and depriving them of their rightful accolades and opportunities, which is that he ascribes to an ideology of extreme pathological narcissism. It&#8217;s reminiscent of the video of that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-transgender-movement-is-morphing-into-the-transhumanist-movement-and-the-results-are-horrific" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WPATH expert</a> talking about turning people&#8217;s genitals into abstract art. Above everything else, these people cannot tolerate being told &#8220;no.&#8221; They simply have to believe that they can do anything they want.
In that sense, the underlying ideas behind trans ideology and the commercial surrogacy movement aren&#8217;t that distinct. They&#8217;re both premised on the idea that humans can be gods. They think people can invent their own genders, just as easily as they can invent new ways for two men to &#8220;have a child.&#8221;
But humans don&#8217;t have the power to create new genders. Two men don&#8217;t have the power to create a child. And no one has the authority to end an innocent human life. The commercial surrogacy industry, like so many other movements we&#8217;ve been told to accept over the past decade, is yet another step towards a dystopia that embraces delusions, instead of rejecting them. And as we&#8217;ve seen before, if this is allowed to continue, many children will be irreparably damaged if not killed. They will be forced to suffer in order to appease narcissists and psychopaths. And, as with the trans movement, women — the very people who are supposedly &#8220;empowered&#8221; by this new approach — will again be collateral damage.

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Pro-life activists have long believed that fetuses are deserving of human rights because of the scientific belief that human life begins at conception. Contrary to what some may think, this goal is not out of reach. States are <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/personhood-bills-ivf-restrictions-alabama-rcna140228" target="_blank" rel="noopener">working</a> to enshrine fetal rights into law, recognizing fetuses as human beings who should be given the same rights as people who have already been born. 
As of March 15, 23 pieces of legislation had been introduced in 13 states that would create fetal personhood and outlaw abortion, according to the pro-abortion <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/state-legislation-tracker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guttmacher</a> Institute. With fetal personhood as the end goal for many in the pro-life movement, how these laws would impact the fertility treatment of in vitro fertilization (IVF) is now a main point of discussion. 
A recent decision by the Alabama Supreme Court essentially <a href="https://publicportal-api.alappeals.gov/courts/68f021c4-6a44-4735-9a76-5360b2e8af13/cms/case/343D203A-B13D-463A-8176-C46E3AE4F695/docketentrydocuments/E3D95592-3CBE-4384-AFA6-063D4595AA1D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> that embryos must be considered children under the letter of the law. It ruled that embryos fall under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, which creates a way for parents to receive punitive damages over the death of a child. It found that embryos qualify as “unborn children” and stated that the Act “applies to all unborn children, regardless of their location.” The decision called into question whether or not the IVF industry will be able to continue its treatments under pro-life legislation. The pro-life movement and the practice of IVF can co-exist, but their bond would be stronger if the procedures surrounding IVF were altered because of new laws protecting unborn life.
Although fetal rights will inevitably have a major impact on the IVF industry, this does not mean that supporters of IVF should shy away from such rights being enshrined into law. Many pro-life advocates, as well as conservative Christians, view IVF as an essential means to starting a family. A Facebook group <a href="https://www.facebook.com/search/groups/?q=christian%20ivf%20support&amp;sde=Abo6mQGTwumSH8ghiQqAvvjPX7NFviMO4wSBhxr6grIQwUayjg5k0ye5FNdIS2HCiLkkJOB-TfP5YV29lVJ9zt3H" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> “Christian IVF Support” has 2,000 members and conservative women have begun to speak out in favor of IVF practices. 
Hannah Nelson, a Christian mother who received IVF treatment in order to give birth to her son, responded to a post by conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey in late February. “There is an ethical and Christian way to do IVF,” she wrote, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/01/ivf-embryos-alabama-ruling-conservative-women/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Washington Post. “I am curious why you’re against that means of creating a family.”
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, told me about natural cycle IVF, a <a href="https://www.shadygrovefertility.com/article/stimulated-ivf-vs-natural-cycle-ivf/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">process</a> that <a href="https://lomalindafertility.com/is-natural-cycle-ivf-your-best-option/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">takes</a> one egg at a time from a woman during her menstrual cycle. The egg is <a href="https://www.ohioreproductivemedicine.com/2018/02/21/natural-ivf-and-mini-ivf/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fertilized</a> outside of the body, and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/health/did-i-need-to-make-extra-embryos-to-have-a-baby-a6b0c584?st=l0ewceljhfags4n&amp;reflink=article_imessage_share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transferred</a> back into the woman, similar to traditional IVF, but without the use of drugs or multiple embryos. 
“There is natural cycle IVF which I believe only extracts a limited number of eggs and implants every embryo into the mother,” Hawkins explained over text. “I think many who are pro-life would be okay with [natural cycle IVF] as you aren’t ‘screening out’ humans or freezing them.”
There is also the process of “Minimal Stimulation IVF,” or “Mini IVF,” which <a href="https://fertilitynj.com/ivf/mini-ivf/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">incorporates</a> less medication to produce fewer eggs, resulting in fewer embryos. This could be another option for people who have concerns over the vast number of unused embryos that are frozen through the traditional IVF process, possibly to never be implanted and given a chance.
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Without <a href="https://www.theregreview.org/2022/08/13/saturday-seminar-the-regulation-of-assisted-reproduction/">cohesive</a><a href="https://www.theregreview.org/2021/08/10/verniero-wild-west-fertility-clinics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> regulation</a>, the IVF industry as a business is not pro-life. One doesn’t have to look far to find pro-life parents who have gone through the IVF process and were forced to seek alternative clinics or received pushback when they wanted to implant all of their embryos.
The IVF industry does not promote pro-life practices in part due to clinics’ desires to have high success rates and make money. The procedure of in-vitro fertilization, however, can be completed in a way that gives value to the lives of unborn children. Laws that protect the unborn at all stages of life — whether in utero or prior to being implanted — will change the IVF industry for the better.
Legislators in the United States need only glance across the pond for a model on how to better protect human life created through fertility treatments. European countries have stricter laws on IVF and other fertility procedures. According to fertility treatment <a href="https://ivi-fertility.com/blog/regulations-legislation-assisted-reproduction-europe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">group</a> IVI, as of January 2022, 20 of the states in the European Union <a href="https://ivi-fertility.com/blog/regulations-legislation-assisted-reproduction-europe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">permit</a> donation of sperm and only 17 allow egg donation. The process of freezing one’s eggs or sperm is allowed in all countries in Europe if it is done because of medical reasons that could negatively impact a person’s ability to have children. In many other countries, however, it is not allowed for social reasons. The only states that permit &#8220;fertility preservation” for social purposes include Germany, Spain, Switzerland, as well as the United Kingdom. 
Even the United Kingdom, which <a href="https://www.fertilityclinicsabroad.com/ivf-abroad/ivf-united-kingdom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allows</a> access to IVF, has restrictions. The law does <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/5360625/danielle-lloyd-gender-selection-legal-uk-early-foetus-identification/#:~:text=The%20only%20way%20you%20can,a%20technique%20which%20does%20this." target="_blank" rel="noopener">not</a> permit parents to pick which embryo they would prefer based on the child’s sex unless it is for a medical reason. In the United States, this is widely <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/04/fertility-clinics-advertise-gender-selection-ethical-wuandary.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accepted</a>, even though several states ban sex selection for abortion, even when some of them <a href="https://www.abortionfinder.org/abortion-guides-by-state/abortion-in-kansas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allow</a> the <a href="https://www.abortionfinder.org/abortion-guides-by-state/abortion-in-north-carolina" target="_blank" rel="noopener">procedure</a>. According to the Guttmacher Institute, as of August 2023, eleven states <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/abortion-bans-cases-sex-or-race-selection-or-genetic-anomaly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prohibit</a> abortion because of the sex of the baby.
No one conceived through fertility treatments — or parents who utilized these procedures — should be judged or ostracized. As Kristan Hawkins pointed out in our conversation, “those who were conceived via IVF are valuable persons who we are glad are here.”
The pro-life movement does not need to exist apart from IVF, but it can and should positively influence laws surrounding fertility treatments so that humans at all stages of life are given the rights they deserve.
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The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire. 
Disclosure: The author formerly worked with Students for Life of America.

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Actress Kristen Wiig opened up about her years-long in vitro fertilization (IVF) &#8220;struggle&#8221; and how she got her &#8220;amazing&#8221; family after realizing that surrogacy was going to be her only option.
The 50-year-old actress spoke to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/kristen-wiig-interview-apple-series-palm-royale-snl-1235850965/">The Hollywood Reporter</a> about how she, husband comedian Avi Rothman and their 4-year-old twins became a family after she went through three painful years of IVF treatment.
&#8220;It was such a struggle,&#8221; Wiig said. &#8220;When you go through it, you meet other people who are going through it, and it&#8217;s almost like this secret little — the whispering conversation at a party. It feels like not a lot of people talk about it.&#8221;
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&#8220;It is such a private thing, but maybe it doesn&#8217;t have to be,&#8221; she added. &#8220;It&#8217;s part of my story and part of how I got my amazing family.&#8221;
Wiig previously spoke to <a href="https://www.instyle.com/celebrity/kristen-wiig-surrogacy-motherhood">InStyle</a> magazine about what she called the &#8220;most difficult time in my life,&#8221; &#8220;emotionally, spiritually, and medically.&#8221;
&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t myself,&#8217; the actress said. &#8220;There are so many emotions that go with it — you&#8217;re always waiting by the phone and getting test results, and it was just bad news after bad news. Occasionally there would be a good month, but then it was just more bad news. There was a lot of stress and heartache.&#8221;
In January 2020, with doctors&#8217; advice and after years of IVF resulting in no success, she and Rothman welcomed twins, a son and daughter, via surrogate.
&#8220;I remember when our doctor mentioned going other routes and I was just like, &#8216;Nope. Don&#8217;t ever bring that up again. I&#8217;m getting pregnant. I&#8217;m doing this,'&#8221; Wiig said. &#8220;I finally realized that I just needed help. And, thank God, we found the most amazing surrogate.&#8221;
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&#8220;So many things were bittersweet. I was over the moon feeling them kick for the first time, but then I would get in my head and ask myself all these questions, like, &#8216;Why couldn’t I do this?'&#8221; she added. &#8220;At the same time I would tell myself it didn&#8217;t matter. She was giving us the greatest gift, and I just wanted them to get here!&#8221;
&#8220;Overall it was a very beautiful thing, and now that I&#8217;m on the other side, I wouldn&#8217;t have had it any other way,&#8221; Wiig continued. &#8220;I&#8217;ve always believed that things happen the way they&#8217;re supposed to happen, and this is how [our babies] were supposed to get here.&#8221;
Wiig and Rothman started dating in 2016 and in 2019 the two became engaged, <a href="https://people.com/movies/who-is-avi-rothman-kristen-wiig/">People magazine</a> noted. During an interview with Howard Stern in February 2021, the &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; star called Rothman her husband and confirmed they were married.

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