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At Tuesday night’s debate, seemingly stung by Kamala Harris’s assertion that IVF treatments have been curtailed “under Donald Trump’s abortion bans,” the former Republican president declared, “I have been a leader on IVF, which is fertilization. The IVF — I have been a leader.” To show exactly how much he knew about the reproductive technology, he repeated the word “fertilization” a few moments later.
It is true that Trump came out against the Alabama State Supreme Court decision, in February, restricting access to IVF, and that in late August he said he would make the procedure free. “Under the Trump administration, we are going to be paying for that treatment,” Trump told NBC News. “We’re going to be mandating that the insurance company pay.”
You might call this offhand proposal half-baked. (Trump surprised his own advisers with the comment, NBC later reported, and his campaign has refused to provide more detail. A person close to the campaign said there may not actually be a plan.) You might also notice that his remarks were totally contrary to his prior opposition...