Trump says he's the father of IVF and recently learned what it is

Trump declared he was "the father of IVF" during a Fox News town hall, while also saying he just recently discovered what the decades-old procedure actually is.

Former President Donald Trump declared he was "the father of IVF" during a Fox News town hall that aired Wednesday while also saying he just recently discovered what the decades-old procedure actually is.

When he was told he was getting a question about in vitro fertilization, Trump said: "Oh, I want to talk about IVF. I’m the father of IVF, so I want to hear this question."

His questioner identified herself as a mother of three who has friends who are "very concerned that the abortion bans" sparked by the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade "will affect their ability to access IVF and other fertility treatments." She asked what Trump would say to those women.

His answer included a number of mischaracterizations and inaccuracies — and a comment on the appearance of Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala.

"So I got a call from Katie Britt, a young, just a fantastically attractive person from Alabama. She’s a senator, and she called me up like 'emergency, emergency' because an Alabama judge had ruled that the IVF clinics were illegal and they have to be closed down. A judge ruled, and she said, friends of mine came up to me and they were, oh, they were so angry. I didn’t even know they were going, you know, she, they were, it’s fertilization. I didn’t know they were even involved in — nobody talks about, they don’t talk about it," Trump's answer began.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-father-ivf-recently-learned-rcna175940

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