Trump Ridiculed for Calling Himself ‘the Father of IVF’ at Women’s Town Hall

The former president defended the fertilization treatments at the Georgia event.

AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson
President Trump speaks during a break in a Fox News town hall with Harris Faulkner at the Reid Barn, October 15, 2024, at Cumming, Georgia. AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson

President Trump is being pilloried for comments aired Wednesday during which the former president called himself “the father of IVF,” referring to the infertility treatments that were briefly made illegal in Alabama earlier this year. The 45th president is trying to convince women that he supports the practice, though many Republicans in Congress have made clear they would not back protecting the treatment under federal law. 

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