Overview

• The White House confirmed it will not fund free IVF treatments, marking an official reversal of President Trump’s 2024 campaign pledge.
• Republican leaders and White House officials have pivoted to restorative reproductive medicine as a conservative-backed alternative to IVF.
• Emma Waters of the Heritage Foundation and other evangelical activists have hailed RRM for diagnosing and treating root causes of infertility.
• The American Society for Reproductive Medicine denounces RRM as ideological rather than evidence-based medical practice and warns it could mislead patients.
• The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists cautions that RRM-driven myths about birth control causing infertility lack scientific support.