‘Where Did THAT Come From?’ Fox’s Steve Doocy Presses Lara Trump on Sudden ‘Free’ IVF Promise by Trump
Fox & Friends welcomed Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump on the show on Friday to get her response to various bits of the news, and co-host Steve Doocy especially wanted her reaction to former President Donald Trump’s sudden support for “free” health coverage for IVF treatments.
Trump, who brought up his new IVF position during a Michigan rally on Thursday, said: “I’m announcing today in a major statement 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 nicely.”
Doocy asked Lara Trump, who is the daughter-in-law of the ex-president, about the unexpected announcement:
Doocy: President Trump yesterday, he made a statement that — nobody saw this coming. He said if he wins, he would make IVF free. Didn’t say how it would work or who would pay for it. Where’d that come from?
Trump: While I’m sure Donald Trump, unlike [Vice President] Kamala Harris, will actually articulate the ways in which he will go about doing such a thing. Here’s what the Democrats are running on, Steve. They are running on emotion, vibes, and abortion. You saw the mobile abortion van that they had at the DNC. You could get a taco and an abortion right outside. Really nice. Wow. What what a great thing for America. That is what they’re running on.
And they continue to lie about Donald Trump and his stance on abortion and IVF. Donald Trump has said multiple times, “I will not sign a federal abortion ban.” They continue to lie about that. They continue to lie, as did [Minnesota Gov.] Tim Walz in his speech at the DNC about Donald Trump’s stance on IVF. Donald Trump wants more babies in America, not fewer. He is very pro the miracle that IVF has given just so many families across this country. And he wanted to make his stance on that explicitly clear. And that’s why he talked about it.
Donald Trump previously said he would sign a federal ban on abortions after 20 weeks while addressing the anti-abortion March For Life in 2018: “I call upon the Senate to pass this important law and send it to my desk for signing.” He has publicly held a number of positions on abortion, stating on separate occasions that he is “pro-choice” (in 1999) and “pro-life” in (2011).
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