Former President Donald Trump made a new campaign promise on Thursday, saying his administration would pay for in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments for “all Americans” or mandate that insurance companies pay for it.

Asked about IVF by a reporter before his rally in Potterville, Michigan, Trump said he was “always for IVF.”

“It’s helping women and men and families,” he said, adding, “We need great children, beautiful children in our country; we actually need them. Under the Trump administration, we are going to be paying for that treatment … for all Americans to get it.”

The Republican presidential nominee promised that either the federal government will pay for IVF or his administration will “be mandating the insurance company pay.”

BREAKING: President Trump announces that his administration will either pay for IVF or mandate that all insurance companies cover the treatment:

“Under the Trump administration, we are going to be paying for that treatment, so we are paying for that treatment…all Americans… pic.twitter.com/jg0zgIre8Z

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 29, 2024

Trump officially proposed the new IVF policy during his rally in Michigan, telling supporters, “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. Because we want more babies, to put it very nicely.”

“And for this same reason, we will also allow new parents to deduct major newborn expenses from their taxes,” he added.

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“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.”

“We want more babies!” pic.twitter.com/ZtsGkNUdl6

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 29, 2024

The IVF issue was thrown into the national spotlight in February when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children. The ruling caused an uproar from Democrat and Republican politicians, including Trump, who called on the Alabama legislature to act to protect access to IVF.

“Under my leadership, the Republican Party will always support the creation of strong, thriving, healthy American families. We want to make it easier for mothers and fathers to have babies, not harder! That includes supporting the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every State in America,” Trump wrote at the time. “Like the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of Americans, including the VAST MAJORITY of Republicans, Conservatives, Christians, and Pro-Life Americans, I strongly support the availability of IVF for couples who are trying to have a precious baby. Today, I am calling on the Alabama Legislature to act quickly to find an immediate solution to preserve the availability of IVF in Alabama.”

The Alabama legislature overwhelmingly passed legislation protecting access to IVF in the state and the bill was signed into law by Republican Gov. Kay Ivey.

Despite Trump’s support of IVF, Vice President Kamala Harris has attacked Trump over the issue and blamed him for the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling.

“He literally is the architect of this entire crisis,” Harris said in a video. “What happened in Alabama is a direct result of what happened in the United States Supreme Court. He hand-picked three members of the United States Supreme Court with the full intention for them to overturn Roe v. Wade.”

Vice President Kamala Harris‘ campaign hired Rev. Jennifer Butler on Wednesday as its national faith engagement director. The leftist activist claims that Christianity has been “hijacked by white supremacists” and believes the Democratic ticket gives Christians “an opportunity to reclaim faith for justice.”

Butler is a minister in the liberal Presbyterian Church (USA) denomination and founded the leftist think tank and activist group, Faith in Public Life, in 2005, Religion News Service reported. Faith in Public Life has campaigned for leftist policies on issues ranging from immigration and voting to abortion and LGBT rights. Now, the PC USA minister directs most of her public comments toward attacking Republicans and condemning “Christian nationalism.”

Fox News reported that in 2022, Butler wrote a response to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot and the months of Congressional hearings that took place after and claimed that “white supremacists” were “hijack[ing]” the Christian faith. She also called on Christians to “denounce Christian nationalism.”

“We must do more than just watch the January 6th hearings aghast. We cannot allow our faith to continue to be hijacked by white supremacists covered in religious language,” she wrote. “For the sake of our faith and our democracy, we must denounce Christian nationalism and reclaim a faith that values and affirms the human dignity of all people. Including our own.”

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Butler also reposted a tweet in 2021 that said, “It’s impossible to follow Jesus and not embrace CRT [Critical Race Theory]. Pass it on.”

In November 2023, Butler called Republican and devout Christian Rep. Mike Johnson’s election as Speaker of the House “a threat to global democracy.” She argued that Johnson represents political leaders who manipulate religion and called on “religious communities in the US” to “challenge the growth of Christian nationalism.”

Two years prior, in November of 2021, Butler joined a list of faith leaders who condemned the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse after he shot three protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in self-defense. Butler accused Rittenhouse of “murdering” the two men who died after they were shot and called the not-guilty verdict “the newest face of an old evil.”

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Butler said that Christianity “has long been used to justify the oppression of others,” adding, “As Christians, particularly as White Christians in this country… we need as Christians to speak more loudly about what our faith – that our faith calls us to resist the pharaohs, the Egyptian kings, the Roman Caesars of our day.” On Wednesday, Butler slammed the majority of Christians who believe abortion is murder, posting on X, “Being anti-Abortion was always a fig leaf for racism and anti-regulation/taxation agenda.”

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Butler was arrested in 2017 while protesting on Capitol Hill when Republicans were pushing to repeal provisions in the Affordable Care Act. She claimed that a repeal of the Affordable Care Act would kill people.