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“Donald Trump on Tuesday declared himself the “father of IVF,” a fertility treatment that has come under threat following the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
It’s unclear what precisely the former president meant when he made the comment at a Fox News town hall in battleground Georgia that was billed as focusing on women’s issues and had an all-female audience. But he has repeatedly returned to the issue – talking up his support for IVF – on the campaign trail, where he has given a long series of confusing or contradictory answers about his stance on abortion.
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During the town hall, Trump also criticized some states for placing restrictions on abortion that he called “too tough,” saying, without providing any details, that those laws are “going to be redone.”
“The states are now voting (on abortion rights), and honestly, some of them are going much more liberal, like in Ohio,” Trump said.
Faulkner then noted that “some of (the states) are not,” referring to the states that enacted or activated bans or restrictions on the procedure after Roe was overturned in 2022 and where those limits remain in place. …”
It’s unclear what precisely the former president meant when he made the comment at a Fox News town hall in battleground Georgia that was billed as focusing on women’s issues and had an all-female audience. But he has repeatedly returned to the issue – talking up his support for IVF – on the campaign trail, where he has given a long series of confusing or contradictory answers about his stance on abortion.
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During the town hall, Trump also criticized some states for placing restrictions on abortion that he called “too tough,” saying, without providing any details, that those laws are “going to be redone.”
“The states are now voting (on abortion rights), and honestly, some of them are going much more liberal, like in Ohio,” Trump said.
Faulkner then noted that “some of (the states) are not,” referring to the states that enacted or activated bans or restrictions on the procedure after Roe was overturned in 2022 and where those limits remain in place. …”
