President Trump’s New Policy on In Vitro Fertilization – Jennifer Lahl, 10/17/25 (2902)
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🗓️ 17 October 2025
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Jennifer Lahl of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network
Jennifer’s Documentaries
The Center of Bioethics and Culture Network
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| 0:00.0 | This is Molly Hemingway, encouraging you to listen to my favorite podcast, issues, etc. |
| 0:07.3 | Every day you get in-depth interviews with host Todd Wilkin asking expert guests, substantive, thought-provoking questions on all of the important news and issues of our day. |
| 0:18.7 | The expert guests are in culture, law, ethics, philosophy, theology, |
| 0:23.1 | and apologetics. Expert guests? Expansive topics. Always extolling Christ. Issues, etc. President Trump's pro-life record is pretty good. |
| 0:46.4 | There is one exception, of course, and from, well, at least the last election cycle, |
| 0:52.1 | he has been talking about in vitro fertilization and trying to expand |
| 0:56.4 | it, make it more accessible, and seems to be unaware, at least as of this afternoon, seems to be |
| 1:02.8 | unaware of the objections of many pro-lifers to in vitro fertilization ethically. |
| 1:08.4 | Welcome back to Issues, Et cetera. |
| 1:10.4 | I'm Todd Wilkin, Joining us to discuss the president's |
| 1:13.1 | new policy on vitro fertilization. Jennifer Lawl. She spent 25 years as a pediatric critical care nurse, |
| 1:20.1 | a hospital administrator and a senior level nursing manager. She's founder of the Center for |
| 1:24.6 | Bioethics and Culture Network, a writer, director, and executive producer of the documentary's Big Fertility, Exploitation, Anonymous Father's Day, Breeders, a subclass of Women and Maggie's Story. |
| 1:36.9 | Jennifer, welcome back. |
| 1:38.3 | Thanks for having me back on the show today, Todd. I always enjoy being with you guys. |
| 1:42.9 | Ryan Anderson of the Ethics and Public Policy Center posted on X yesterday, and I quote, |
| 1:48.4 | the Trump IVF policy is perhaps the least bad that we could have hoped for. As I understand it, |
| 1:54.7 | there's no IVF mandate and no government subsidies. So there's no direct religious liberty |
| 1:59.9 | or conscience violations or concerns |
| 2:01.8 | with taxpayer funding, but least bad is still bad. What's your reaction? I agree with what |
| 2:09.7 | Ryan Anderson said. I actually read his article in first things this morning and saw what he posted |
| 2:14.7 | on X. And it is, in fact, true that the policy of President |
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