IVF’s cost is in lives, not dollars, conservative activist says

Trump has reached a deal with EMD Serono, which will sell its In Vitro Fertilization drug to consumers at an 84% discount if they buy the drug from TrumpRX.gov. It would normally cost more than $5000 per month. But conservative activist Aundrea Gomez says saving money should not be the first concern when it comes to IVF.

“We're talking about a procedure where the marital act that conceives a child is completely removed from the equation, and in its place, we're using lab technicians. That embryo, that child that's made in the image of God, is spending the first three to five days of their life in a Petri dish in a lab. I don't believe that is within God's design for life,” she said.

Gomez understands the grief couples who struggle with fertility go through, but says IVF is not the solution. She believes women and men should work on the root causes of the infertility. Still, Gomez says she's relieved that the plan isn't the mandate she feared the president was going to present.

“It sounded like there was going to be some sort of mandate put on insurance companies.”

IVF is the creation, in a lab, of human embryos, human life, some of which are implanted in a woman. Usually several are implanted at once, in hopes one of them attaches and starts growing inside the mother. The ones that don't or are never implanted are ultimately destroyed.

“Really look at the lack of regulation within IVF. We need better oversight,” Gomez said.