Donald Trump put the Left on its collective heels on Thursday evening by declaring that he’s prepared to create a federal mandate of sorts for IVF treatment.
“I am announcing today that under the Trump administration, your government will pay for or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for all costs associated with IVF treatment,” the former president told a Michigan crowd. “We want more babies!”
It’s a clear response to the electoral fallout from Alabama’s in vitro fertilization debate, and although it’s not very “limited government,” it’s consistent with the pro-natal policies which have become popular in populist conservative circles and in countries like Hungary amind an epidemic of collapsing birth rates. It just might work.
Someone who may find this latest twist in the Election 2024 saga more problematic:
Sue Altman.
The uber-far Left NJ-07 Democrat nominee has devoted more time to the niche issue than any other as a quick X topic search reveals. She’s even cut an exceptionally cringy video on the subject:
IVF is essential for so many New Jerseyans starting and growing their families, but @KeanforCongress is predictably useless when it comes time to protect it – even when his GOP colleagues in NY and PA hop on @wildforcongress’ bill to protect IVF, he uses cheap tricks to cosponsor… pic.twitter.com/n2Ak9szOeB
— Sue Altman (@suealtman) August 6, 2024
Is she distorting the incumbent Tom Kean Jr.’s position on IVF? Yes.
Is there any danger of New Jersey outlawing or restricting IVF? No.
But Altman is in a real pickle now. President Trump’s big policy announcement could neuter her preferred avenue of attack in the state’s last extremely competitive congressional district.
“Someone needs to check on @suealtman, is she OK?” ex-NJGOP Executive Director Tom Szymanski joked on X. “Her entire campaign was IVF. Although she’s been lying through her teeth from day 1 about this issue, so I can’t imagine she’d let facts get in the way of saying whatever nonsense she wants to say now.”
Nor can I, but I’m looking forward to seeing where she goes with it all the same. Thus, I suppose, is the fate of any campaign devoid of substance and heavy on bullshit.
