Donald Trump has said he will vote against a ballot measure in his home state of Florida that would protect abortion rights after facing backlash from conservative supporters.
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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." ...
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