Trump said that during his administration he will make “insurers pay” for in vitro fertilization

Former President and Republican candidate for the White House, Donald Trump, has distanced himself in recent hours from the most conservative consensus of the Republican Party On abortion and reproductive rights, an issue that punishes the party at the polls since the Supreme Court removed protection for the interruption of pregnancy, which is generating controversy.

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The former president went off script, assuring that is against restricting abortion to six weeks of pregnancy, a deadline that many Republican-governed states are imposing.

One of those states is Florida, where Republicans passed this restriction in April.

Florida resident Trump is called to the polls on November 5, coinciding with the presidential election, to vote in a referendum to eliminate the six-week ban imposed by his fellow party members.

“I’m going to vote that we need more than six weeks,” Trump said in an interview with NBC, implying that he would support the amendment promoted by pro-abortion groups to override the veto or any other relaxation of the current rule.

“I think six weeks is too little, there has to be more time. I have told them that I want more weeks,” he added.

The former president often boasts that his appointment of three conservative justices to the Supreme Court during his tenure was key to overturning Roe v. Wade, the federal abortion protection law.

But that gave the green light for Republican states in nearly half the country to impose severe or total bans on abortion, measures that are extremely unpopular with the majority of the electorate and have been defeated every time they have been put to a vote.

Emboldened by the conservative wave driven by influential evangelicals, some Republicans have even flirted with the idea of ​​imposing a national restriction if they control the executive and legislative branches.

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance vowed last week that Trump would veto such a federal abortion restriction if Republicans pass it in Congress, but two years ago the now Ohio senator was advocating a national ban.

Trump also revealed last Thursday the promise that, If he wins the White House, in vitro fertilization treatments will be subsidized by the government or insurance companies, something that Democrats also suggest.

“Under a Trump administration, we’re going to pay for treatment. Or we’ll make the insurance companies pay for it.”the former president said in the interview, before also announcing it at a campaign rally in Michigan, one of the key states.

Although in vitro fertilization is a less passionate issue among conservatives than abortion, Republicans blocked a bill introduced by Democrats in the Senate in June to protect this treatment by law.

Only two of the 49 Republican senators voted in favor. Among the dissenting votes was JD Vance.

Democrats wanted to pass it after a surprise court decision in Alabama earlier this year ruled that frozen embryos should be considered “children,” effectively halting this fertility treatment in the state.

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, on behalf of the presidential campaign of the current vice president, Kamala Harris, assured this Friday that “American women are not stupid,” in response to Trump’s election promise.

“Making vague promises about insurance is not going to stop any extremist judge or state legislature from banning in vitro fertilization,” the senator added, advocating for the passage of a law to protect it.

Her colleague Tina Smith also spoke out on the subject. “Women see Trump’s attempt to water down his radical stance on reproductive rights for what it really is: a total lie,” she said.

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