Trump wants to make the GOP a leader' on IVF. Republicans' actions make that a tough sell
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... Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's vow to promote in vitro fertilization by forcing health insurance companies or the federal government to pay for the treatments is at odds with the actions of much of his own party.

Yet his surprising announcement Thursday reveals the former president's realization that GOP stances on abortion and reproductive rights could be huge liabilities for his chances of returning to the White House. Trump has quickly tried to reframe the narrative around those issues after Vice President Kamala Harris entered the presidential race.

Even before he made his coverage proposal, Trump had been promoting the idea that the Republican Party is a "leader" on IVF. That characterization is rejected by Democrats, who have seized on the common but expensive fertility treatment as another dimension of reproductive rights threatened by Republicans and a second Trump presidency.

It's not just political partisans.

"Republicans are not leaders on IVF," said Katie Watson, a medical ethics professor at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine. "Some of them have posed a threat to IVF, and they're currently trying to figure out how to be anti-abortion and pro-IVF, and there are internal inconsistencies and struggles there. It appears that the Republicans are careening to remedy the political damage that resulted from their own choices." ...

Too Much Joy - That's a Lie (1988)
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Lyrics excerpt...

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...
I'm tired of the stories that you always tell
Shakespeare couldn't tell a story that well
You're the largest liar that was ever created
You and Pinocchio are probably related

That's a Lie (Hey, that's me playing harmonica)
You're a liar (Yeah, and I wrote this song too)
Lie, Lie, Lie, That's a Lie (Really I did, LL Cool J was over my house)
You're a liar (...He heard me humming it. He said "Hey, that sounds good!")

You lie about the things you've lied about
You even lied to your aunt when you went down South
You lied and a bodybuilder kicked your butt
If you was in Egypt, you'd lie to King Tut

That's a Lie (Just one glass of wine with dinner, officer)
You're a liar (Ahh, L.A., what a great place)
Lie, Lie, Lie, That's a Lie (No mom, I'm not on drugs)
You're a liar (Of course I love you)
...

Fun tune, quite apropos of fmr Pres Trump.

An interesting twist to the tune...

Too Much Joy
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... Secret Service

Lead singer Quirk was detained by the Secret Service after a performance in which he made a joke about strangling President Clinton.

Although the band believed that Clinton's daughter Chelse

a was in the audience at the time, the Secret Service contingent was actually there to protect an obscure foreign ambassador. As it was the band's tradition to tell an obvious lie during the break section of their version of the LL Cool J song "That's a Lie," Quirk explained that the band was aware of the presence of agents with coiled cords in their ears, and that the Secret Service was "not famous for their sense of humor."

He added that, during the break section, "my friends will jump in and sing 'that's a lie'... so If I were to, for example, say that I voted for President Clinton but when I see him eviscerating the Bill of Rights it makes me want to strangle him, you'll understand that I don't mean it because..." Quirk announced the next song, "I Want to Poison Your Mind," as "I Want to Poison the President." At the end of the show, the Secret Service detained the band and questioned Quirk.[4][15] ...