In an ad released this morning, the Harris campaign takes aim at IVF, arguing that a reshuffle of the Trump administration would jeopardize access to the treatment. The ad features the wife of a military member in Arizona undergoing IVF treatment, expressing concern about potential threats to the procedure.
“My husband is in the military, he’s a volunteer, and we’re patriots, so we’ll go wherever he’s deployed,” she said. “What if we end up in a state where IVF is no longer legal? What will we do then?”
Contrary to the ad’s claims, Trump has sought to distance himself from Republican efforts to restrict in vitro fertilization and the resulting efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade, which were made in part by Supreme Court justices he nominated.
In response to X’s ad, the Trump camp countered, “Everything Kamala tells you is a lie. President Trump not only will not ban IVF, he has promised to have the government cover the entire cost of IVF infertility treatments or ask insurance companies to cover it.”
The Trump campaign stressed to NBC News that Project 2025 is not consistent with Trump’s policy proposals.
“Since fall 2023, President Trump’s campaign has been clear that only President Trump and his campaign represent the policies for a second term, not other organizations or former staff,” Daniel Alvarez, a senior adviser to the campaign, said.
The campaign’s national spokeswoman, Caroline Leavitt, also emphasized that Trump does not plan to sign a nationwide abortion ban.
“President Trump has long and consistently supported states’ rights to make abortion decisions and has made it clear that he would not sign a federal ban if he were back in the White House. President Trump also supports universal access to contraception and in vitro fertilization,” she said.
Asked for comment on Trump’s response to the ad, Harris’ campaign directed NBC News to the ad itself and the RNC’s policy platform, which promises to protect access to in vitro fertilization but also says abortion policy should be left to individual states.
