Donald Trump described himself as the “father of IVF” in a pitch to win back female voters concerned about Republican restrictions on reproductive rights.
Fielding questions at an all-women town hall in the battleground state of Georgia, Trump attempted to clarify his party’s conflicting messaging on a key election issue.
“I’m the father of IVF. We are totally in favour of it,” Trump said in answer to a question by an audience member concerned that various states’ abortion bans would affect women’s access to in vitro fertilisation.
Republicans “really are the party of IVF”, he told Harris Faulkner, the host of Fox News channel’s The Faulkner Focus, on the segment aired on Wednesday. “We want fertilisation and it’s all the way, and the Democrats