It's Thursday, October 23, 2025.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

In his second term in office, President Donald J. Trump has emphasized what could be called making fertility great again. He has been wanting to reverse the nation's declining birth rates, and he has also become a champion of IVF or assisted reproductive technologies. He wants to make it more accessible. He wants more insurance companies to cover it. He wants it to become more widespread. He wants the cost to go down. He wants

the birth rate to go up. Okay, all of that is pretty easy to understand. Let me state at the onset.

I'm in total agreement with the concern about falling birth rates. I think it is one of the most

tragic and frankly one of the most threatening signs in terms of America's future.

But when we talk about babies,

and the biblical worldview reminds us that babies are one of God's greatest gifts, the reality is that that doesn't mean that every form of assisted reproductive technology is allowable or acceptable

or should be funded by the United States government or forced to be

covered in insurance programs. So when we're talking about IVF, let's just step back for a moment,

in vitro fertilization. As I said, the term is a bit outmoded, but nonetheless, these assisted

reproductive technologies that are summarized as IVF, they are in industry in creating human

embryos outside the human body, and then transferring those into a woman's body. And this is a

very expensive process. By some estimations, the individual treatments can range from $10 to $20,000 to $50,000

and above. But in the campaign campaign leading up to the 2024 election,

President Trump was responding to something concrete, and that was a decision by the Supreme

Court of the state of Alabama against the use of IVF. And thus, you had become a major campaign

issue. It became highly politicized primarily because of the

political context. And that context, most importantly, was framed by Democrats and pro-abortionists

pointing to, lamenting, and making much of the Dobbs decision handed down in 2022 by the U.S.

Supreme Court reversing Roe v. Wade.

And so the Democrats and the pro-abortion side have been trying to capitalize on every single

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