{"id":22094,"date":"2024-02-24T05:44:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T05:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/24\/trump-calls-on-alabama-to-protect-ivf-treatment-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-02-24T05:44:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T05:44:05","slug":"trump-calls-on-alabama-to-protect-ivf-treatment-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/24\/trump-calls-on-alabama-to-protect-ivf-treatment-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls on Alabama to protect IVF treatment &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Alabama: Donald Trump has said he supports the availability of IVF treatment, joining a growing number of Republicans who are seeking to distance themselves from an Alabama court ruling on the issue.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s top court ruled last week that frozen embryos have the same rights as children and people can be held liable for destroying them.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At least three clinics paused IVF treatment in the wake of the ruling.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Mr Trump called on Alabama to find \u201can immediate solution\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make it easier for mothers and fathers to have babies, not harder! That includes supporting the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every State in America,\u201d the former president wrote on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Like] the VAST MAJORITY of Republicans, Conservatives, Christians, and Pro-Life Americans, I strongly support the availability of IVF for couples who are trying to have a precious baby,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Friday, in an apparent effort to ease concerns in the state, Alabama\u2019s Republican Attorney General Steve Marshall said he did not intend to prosecute IVF providers or their families.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump\u2019s comments were his first on the issue, and signalled his opposition to a ruling which some Republicans fear could harm them electorally by hindering plans to win back suburban women as well as swing voters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] \u00a0 Alabama: Donald Trump has said he supports the availability of IVF treatment, joining a growing number of Republicans who are seeking to distance themselves from an Alabama court ruling on the issue. \u00a0 The state\u2019s top court ruled last week that frozen embryos have the same rights as children and people can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22096,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22094\/revisions\/22096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}