Here's What Trump, Biden, and the Catholic Church Are Saying About IVF

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Both former president Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are voicing staunch support for the type of fertility treatment known as in vitro fertilization (IVF), slamming an Alabama Supreme Court decision that established the personhood of frozen embryos.
52% : "Trump said in a Truth Social post on Friday that he strongly supports the availability of IVF "in every state" because he wants to "make it easier for mothers and fathers to have babies, not harder.""The Republican Party should always be on the side of the miracle of life -- and the side of mothers, fathers, and their beautiful babies.
51% : IVF is an important part of that," Trump said, going on to call on the state's Legislature to "act quickly to find an immediate solution to preserve the availability of IVF in Alabama.
45% : "John Grabowski, a professor of moral theology and ethics at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., told CNA that the issue is "interconnected" with abortion because "IVF typically results in the creation of 'spare embryos,' many of which are frozen, discarded, or destroyed through embryonic stem cell research.
4% : Vice President Kamala Harris went after Trump directly, saying on X that "no matter what Donald Trump says about IVF," he is "the architect of this health care crisis.

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