Trump announces proposal to expand IVF insurance coverage

President Donald Trump announced a proposal this week that would expand insurance coverage for fertility treatments like IVF, as he said his Trump Rx program has already saved Americans millions in dollars for IVF drugs.

Key Takeaways:

• President Donald Trump announced a proposal that would allow employers to offer a supplemental insurance option that would provide coverage for IVF treatments.

• Trump also boasted that his Trump Rx program has resulted in millions in savings for IVF drugs.

• Though it is often championed for bringing life into the world, IVF unfortunately results in the widespread destruction of human embryos — each a unique human life.

The Details:

Under the proposed rule, employers would be able to offer a supplemental insurance option that would cover fertility treatments and IVF procedures, much like supplemental vision or dental insurance. The proposal was announced as a joint effort of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury.

“I’m pleased to announce that the Department of Labor is issuing a new rule to formally create a fertility benefit option for employers that can be offered to all employees outside of their normal health insurance plans. It’s a big deal, they were not properly taken care of. Katie Britt knows that better than anybody,” Trump said during a press conference at the Oval Office on Monday, referring to Senator Katie Britt of Alabama.

“I shouldn’t admit this, but the first time I really heard about the fertility was Katie. She said, ‘Sir, we have to do something.’ And I’m a quick study. So I learned everything there is to learn in about three, four minutes, and I became the father of fertility,” Trump quipped.

During the press conference, Trump also touted his Trump Rx.gov program, which offers discounted IVF drugs.

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.@POTUS: Since we launched TrumpRx.gov just a few months ago, over 19,000 Americans have used discounts on fertility medicines and saved over $15M just in a matter of weeks.

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"Since we launched the website just a few months ago, over 19,000 Americans have used those fertility medicines and discounts and saved more than $15 million just in a short period of time," he said, noting that projected savings will rise to $4.6 billion over "a fairly small number of years."

The Backstory:

Trump's public support for IVF dates back to the 2024 campaign trail, where he promised that the Republican Party would be "the party for IVF."

Shortly after taking office in February 2025, he issued an executive order expanding IVF, promising to lower the costs and reduce barriers to the practice. That was followed in October 2025 by an announcement that he would create a plan to make IVF more affordable as an employer insurance benefit. The proposal unveiled this week appears to follow up on that promise.

Why It Matters:

Though it is often championed for bringing life into the world, IVF is unfortunately not pro-life. It results in the widespread destruction of embryos — each unique, individual human beings — and by its very nature, it turns children into a commodity.

Can You Be Pro-Life And Support IVF?

According to research published in Reproductive Biomedicine Online, over 2.5 million IVF cycles are performed every year, but of those, only 500,000 babies are born annually — roughly 20 percent. The remaining embryos either fail to implant, are discarded, or are frozen indefinitely.

Instead of promoting expanded access to a procedure that ends so many human lives, the Trump administration could instead be funding efforts to advance Restorative Reproductive Medicine (RRM), which attempts to get to the root cause of fertility problems.

As Live Action News previously reported:

While IVF has long been the mainstream and accepted way to combat infertility, it's been seen by many doctors as a band-aid approach to infertility rather than a healing approach. RRM, as the National Catholic Bioethics Center explained, "aims to treat the root causes of dysfunctions that make it difficult or impossible for couples to conceive and bring to birth children."

In an article published by The Heritage Foundation, Waters explained that RRM-based treatments have a higher success rate than IVF. According to Waters:

"RRM succeeds even after IVF has failed, at a fraction of the cost, especially across multiple pregnancies. One study published in 2024 found that 40% of couples previously diagnosed with infertility conceived naturally after undergoing RRM-based treatments compared with a 24% success rate with IVF. Another 2018 study found that 32.1% of women who had an average of two failed IVF cycles conceived naturally following targeted medical interventions with RRM."

The Bottom Line:

Though the desire for children is good and understandable, it is not ethical to create children via IVF. Care must be taken to ensure the advancement of measures that protect all human life — even the very smallest among us.