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Article Trump drops IVF promise, preferring to blame women for infertility

Article Trump drops IVF promise, preferring to blame women for infertility

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Aug 9 2025, 8:25 AM
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https://www.salon.com/2025/08/08/trumps-drops-ivf-promise-preferring-to-blame-women-for-infertility/

Quote:The promise of free IVF allowed Trump to pretend anti-abortion policies weren’t about punishing women, but was simply the result of his overwhelming love for babies and desire to see more of them. Feminists were always skeptical, noting that many abortion opponents also despise IVF, because what motivates them is not “babies” but a desire to strip women of control over their bodies and lives. Enough people bought the lie, which likely helped push Trump across the line in a photo finish of an election. For instance, the Washington Post profiled a Michigan woman named Ryleigh Cooper, who had reluctantly voted for Trump because she believed that he would make IVF free — only to have the administration cut her forest service job.
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Aug 9 2025, 8:25 AM #1

https://www.salon.com/2025/08/08/trumps-drops-ivf-promise-preferring-to-blame-women-for-infertility/

Quote:The promise of free IVF allowed Trump to pretend anti-abortion policies weren’t about punishing women, but was simply the result of his overwhelming love for babies and desire to see more of them. Feminists were always skeptical, noting that many abortion opponents also despise IVF, because what motivates them is not “babies” but a desire to strip women of control over their bodies and lives. Enough people bought the lie, which likely helped push Trump across the line in a photo finish of an election. For instance, the Washington Post profiled a Michigan woman named Ryleigh Cooper, who had reluctantly voted for Trump because she believed that he would make IVF free — only to have the administration cut her forest service job.

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Aug 9 2025, 10:46 AM
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Ohhhh nnnnooooo, the lying misogynistic manipulative conman... lied to get votes, ohhhh nnnoooo. Oh noooo the guy who said he can just grab women by the pussy somehow isn't a savior of women's rights, oh my goooossshhh?? Crazy??? Who could have predicted this, besides like anyone with half a brain, ohhhh nnnoooo.

So sick of this timeline. I can only hope that people smarten up before the midterm elections... but at the rate American institutions are being dismantled by the Project 2025-controlled federal government, I am increasingly worried about that even being effective... Depresso.
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Aug 9 2025, 10:46 AM #2

Ohhhh nnnnooooo, the lying misogynistic manipulative conman... lied to get votes, ohhhh nnnoooo. Oh noooo the guy who said he can just grab women by the pussy somehow isn't a savior of women's rights, oh my goooossshhh?? Crazy??? Who could have predicted this, besides like anyone with half a brain, ohhhh nnnoooo.

So sick of this timeline. I can only hope that people smarten up before the midterm elections... but at the rate American institutions are being dismantled by the Project 2025-controlled federal government, I am increasingly worried about that even being effective... Depresso.

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Aug 9 2025, 2:13 PM
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Trump has been very open in the past about hating pregnancy. He has mentioned it in interviews, told his first wife he couldn't be sexually attracted to women who had given birth and only had a kid with Melania because she promised to get her pre-pregnancy body back. Allegedly he also paid for a number of abortions for mistresses he had gotten pregnant.

Yet somehow people believed him when he talked about IVF (a procedure which he admitted he knew nothing about), while also not believing him when he said he was going to be a dictator. Make it make sense.
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Aug 9 2025, 2:13 PM #3

Trump has been very open in the past about hating pregnancy. He has mentioned it in interviews, told his first wife he couldn't be sexually attracted to women who had given birth and only had a kid with Melania because she promised to get her pre-pregnancy body back. Allegedly he also paid for a number of abortions for mistresses he had gotten pregnant.

Yet somehow people believed him when he talked about IVF (a procedure which he admitted he knew nothing about), while also not believing him when he said he was going to be a dictator. Make it make sense.

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Aug 9 2025, 3:51 PM
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Quote: told his first wife he couldn't be sexually attracted to women who had given birth

probably because giving birth makes them less likely to be, and/or harder to imagine they are, underage.
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Aug 9 2025, 3:51 PM #4

Quote: told his first wife he couldn't be sexually attracted to women who had given birth

probably because giving birth makes them less likely to be, and/or harder to imagine they are, underage.

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