The State of the IVF Debate

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Caleb Brown

Politics, News Commentary, 424708, Libertarian, Markets, Cato, News, Immigration, Peace, Policy, Government, Defense

4.6 • 949 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Public machinations over in vitro fertilization have stepped up since the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, including a high-profile endorsement of federal subsidies from presidential candidate Donald Trump. Vanessa Brown Calder says that plan is wrongheaded and provides some context.

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0:00.0	This is the Cater Daily podcast for Saturday, November 2nd, 2024.
0:08.6	I'm Caleb Brown.
0:09.6	In the wake of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision regarding abortion, some of the debate is now shifted to one about in vitro fertilization, or IVF.
0:18.4	So where does that debate sit now?
0:20.6	It is Vanessa Brown called or provides some useful context.
0:27.0	I had to tell you that Donald Trump called himself in a Fox News town hall, the father of IVF.
0:35.3	I did not know that.
0:36.5	Usually we reserve father of, you know, some kind of technology or a tool or something.
0:46.3	We reserve that for the person who invented it, usually.
0:50.4	Correct.
0:50.5	Correct.
0:51.1	Or somebody who made, but whatever.
0:54.8	Yes, he has claimed to be a leader.
0:56.7	A leader on this issue.
0:58.5	So there are a lot of different elements to consider with respect to IVF in vitro
1:04.6	fertilization.
1:06.5	One of them is that we would like people to be able to have as many children as they would like to have.
1:14.0	And that's a really basic thing.
1:16.7	If there's a technological innovation that lets them do that, that is fantastic.
1:22.3	That's not the only element, but just as a matter of making it easier technologically for people to have the children that
1:32.4	they want to have, everybody's for that, right?
1:35.6	Well, most people are for that general idea that we should allow people to have the families
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