When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and a half-century of settled abortion rights two years ago, Donald Trump said it would be bad for Republicans. He obviously meant himself, as last week he clumsily offered a few different stands on abortion as he tries to find his footing, confounding his supporters.
The radical court decision was the result of three justices Trump put on the court, and now he’s scrambling two months before Election Day.
During an interview with NBC News on Thursday he said a second Trump administration would either directly provide or force insurers to provide in-vitro fertilization treatments for anyone who needed them.
So what then, the federal government is going to provide or mandate coverage for IVF treatments, and then keep the resulting tens or hundreds of thousands of frozen embryos? For how long, indefinitely? And who exactly is going to allocate the enormous resources that are going to be necessary?
Congress likely wouldn’t be all too keen, and it’s dubious that Trump could reasonably pull off another fiscal sleight of hand like he did appropriating military funds towards a border wall. Experts actually well-versed in the matter have already said it’s a logistically tall order to accomplish.