Anti-Abortion Groups Lobbied Trump Against IVF. They Say They’re Winning.

“We’ve been heard,” one anti-abortion advocate told NOTUS.

Anti-abortion activists in March for Life 2020.
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Anti-abortion advocates have been privately lobbying to sway President Donald Trump — the self-proclaimed “father of IVF” — away from his campaign promise to make in vitro fertilization free for Americans.

They’re claiming victory.

The White House is not planning to support an insurance coverage mandate for the procedure, The Washington Post reported this week.