Trump Makes Startling Confession as He Dubs Himself “Father of IVF”
Donald Trump had no idea what in vitro fertilization was until after Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling against the practice in February, needing Senator Katie Britt to explain it to him.
The former president made the startling revelation during a Fox News town hall in Georgia about women’s issues aired Wednesday, shortly after calling himself the “father of IVF” and saying “nobody talks about that.”
“I got a call from Katie Britt, a young just a fantastically attractive person from Alabama, she’s a senator, and she called me up like ‘emergency, emergency’ because an Alabama judge had ruled that the IVF clinics were illegal and had to be closed down,” Trump told Fox News’s Harris Faulkner.
“I didn’t know they were even involved in [IVF], nobody talks about that, they don’t talk about it, but now that they can’t do it, she said I was attacked in a certain way, I was attacked, and I said explain IVF very quickly, and within about two minutes I understood it. I said, ‘No no, we’re totally in favor of IVF,’” Trump continued incoherently.
Trump says that Katie Britt had to explain what IVF was to him before he could decide if he was for it pic.twitter.com/LKfiglxkMn
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Trump admitting he had never heard of IVF until February would be damning for most political candidates, let alone one running for president. Trump’s supposed vow to protect IVF is even worse, as he has constantly flip-flopped on the issue, with his running mate JD Vance struggling to keep up and explain Trump’s policy.
Trump’s fellow Republicans, including Britt, have refused to protect the practice at the federal level, voting against multiple measures in Congress. But so far, Trump and the GOP have escaped any blowback for failing to protect IVF or their numerous other attacks on reproductive rights. It looks like the only accountability they’ll face will be at the ballot box in November.
