Families Are Losing Access to IVF Because of Donald Trump
AUSTIN, Texas – Today, Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa released the following statement on the Alabama Supreme Court ruling restricting access to IVF, a direct result of Trump’s MAGA, anti-freedom agenda:
“As Texans watch families in Alabama lose access to IVF in horror, we’re reminded that there is one person responsible – Donald Trump. Make no mistake: Trump is responsible for all the chaos and the cruelty playing out as his attacks on reproductive rights rip away even more freedoms from women across the country. Texas is ground zero for reproductive healthcare chaos as we saw the Texas Supreme Court rule against Kate Cox medically necessary abortion – forcing her to flee her home state to seek life-saving healthcare elsewhere. MAGA Republicans will stop at nothing when it comes to controlling women’s bodies and healthcare decisions – Texans know this, and are ready to reject the MAGA anti-freedom agenda in November.”
Because of Donald Trump’s role in overturning Roe v. Wade, multiple fertility clinics in Alabama have cut off families’ access to IVF services. Donald Trump wants to take his anti-freedom agenda nationwide:
Trump has bragged about restricting the reproductive freedom of millions of women, saying proudly that “I'm the one that got rid of Roe v. Wade.”
Mere days before the ruling, new reporting revealed Trump’s plans for a national abortion ban that would rip abortion rights from even more women across America.
Trump has long supported a nationwide abortion ban, even saying in a speech to his MAGA supporters that “there of course remains a vital role for the federal government in protecting unborn life. And it’s very important.”
Trump has even gone so far as to call for punishing women who have abortions.
Trump has claimed credit for every extreme abortion ban passed thanks to his role in overturning Roe v. Wade, and said he was ‘proud’ to have terminated abortion rights.
And Trump’s close allies have plans to effectively ban abortion nationwide without the help of Congress. Trump’s allies could even attempt to prosecute doctors and patients for sending or receiving abortion medication in the mail.
According to a poll conducted by the firm of Trump’s own longtime advisor, 86% of voters support IVF.
Trump appointed an anti-IVF judge to a lifetime federal judicial appointment. He even added her to a list of potential Supreme Court picks.
The Trump administration proposed a rule that would have allowed health care workers to refuse IVF to women who were single, LGBTQ+ or in an interfaith relationship.
Trump’s White House and campaign hosted the Alabama Supreme Court chief justice who ruled to restrict access to IVF.
Trump’s Supreme Court appointee Amy Coney Barrett supported calls to protect life from fertilization and refused to answer questions about criminalizing IVF.
Trump and his extremist allies are already laying out plans for a nationwide abortion ban, attacks on same-sex marriage, and restrictions on contraception.
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