(LifeSiteNews) — President Donald Trump announced that his administration has struck a deal with pharmaceutical companies that will drastically reduce the cost of in vitro fertilization (IVF), triggering an outcry from pro-life and religious leaders who envision a vast increase in the number of embryos – unborn children – who will be treated as nothing more than medical waste as a result.
“The initiatives I’ve just announced are the boldest and most significant actions ever taken by any president to bring the miracle of life into more American homes,” said Trump speaking in the Oval Office on Thursday. “There’s no deeper happiness and joy of raising children, and now millions of Americans struggling with infertility will have a new chance to share the greatest experience of them all.”
He touted his initiative as an “historic victory for American women, mothers, and families” and joked that this will launch an era of “Trump babies.”
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. congratulated Trump, telling him that he will “get to heaven” for promoting IVF.
.@POTUS: “We’re here today to announce a historic victory for American women, mothers, and families. With the actions I will outline this afternoon, we’ll dramatically slash the cost of IVF, and many of the most common fertility drugs… prices are going way down.” pic.twitter.com/O8YOXNPLF7
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 16, 2025
While members of the administration smiled and patted each other on the back, hailing this as Trump’s pro-family “promises kept,” many beyond the White House walls were quick to point out that this initiative is a callous move which overlooks the dark side of IVF.
“RFK Jr. just told Trump he’ll ‘get to heaven’ for promoting IVF,” wrote LifeSiteNews co-founder and CEO, John-Henry Westen.
“No, Mr. Kennedy. As a Catholic, you know IVF violates God’s law – and as a man of science, you know it kills millions of embryonic children,” said Westen, adding, “We pray for your conversion – and for the President’s.”
RFK Jr. just told Trump he’ll “get to heaven” for promoting IVF. WATCH 👇
No, Mr. Kennedy. As a Catholic, you know IVF violates God’s law—and as a man of science, you know it kills millions of embryonic children.
We pray for your conversion—and for the President’s. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/sfOnjSFRCf
— John-Henry Westen (@JhWesten) October 17, 2025
“While we appreciate President Trump’s desire to support families, the answer is not found in propping up a profit-driven, rights-violating industry,” asserted the global children’s rights organization, Them Before Us. “It’s found in better healthcare, better research, and an unwavering commitment to protect the smallest and most vulnerable humans among us.”
The IVF process is gravely unethical, as it entails the conscious creation of scores of “excess” embryonic humans only to be killed and human lives being treated like commodities to be bartered over. It has been estimated that more than a million embryos are frozen in storage in the United States following IVF, and that as many as 93 percent of all embryos created through IVF are eventually destroyed. A 2019 NBC News profile of Florida IVF practitioner Craig Sweet acknowledged that his practice has discarded or abandoned approximately a third of the embryos it places in cold storage.
“Unused IVF embryos are frozen and eventually discarded. Life begins at conception,” said Christian podcast host Joel Webbon in response to the news from the White House. “You are facilitating mass murder.”
“President Trump needs to turn away from this wickedness, and Christians should be urgently calling on him to repent,” said Ben Zeisloft on X. “IVF practices are not benign fertility treatments. IVF practices involve the mass discarding, selectively aborting, and indefinite freezing of preborn image-bearers of God.”
“God knows the name of every preborn baby abandoned or murdered by their own parents during IVF. God will ensure justice is established, one way or another, on their behalf,” explained Zeisloft. “Beyond the already unfathomable bloodshed of abortion in our nation, God knows the amount of slaughter we have committed through IVF, and he cannot abide forever with such commodification of his image-bearers.”
“America has provoked the judgment of God in countless ways. We should be humbly repenting and seeking to abolish the abominations in our land rather than doubling down on our rebellion,” averred Zeisloft.
“IVF from beginning to end is filled with child sacrifice. From murdering innocent babies, to freezing them on ice, to eugenically choosing which ones to save, to separating them from their mothers to give to lgbt couples,” said Lizzie Marbach, former director of communications for Ohio Right to Life. “It’s a house of horrors and should be criminalized, not incentivized.”
“Speak up against this evil, Christians,” urged Marbach. “Lives are on the line over this.”
The editor and co-founder of The Pillar, canon lawyer JD Flynn, issued a terse response: “IVF is evil.”
After an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos qualified as children in a wrongful death suit thrust the issue into the national spotlight last year, most national Republicans rushed to declare their support for IVF (with just a handful of exceptions). Leading the charge was Trump himself, who cast himself as a “leader on fertilization” and even promised to enact a new federal entitlement to IVF, whether through direct subsidy or insurance mandate (though he also suggested he would support religious exemptions to the latter).
In February, Trump signed an executive order directing his administration to brainstorm administrative action and policy recommendations to strengthen IVF “access” and “affordability,” though not yet committing to a specific policy. A White House official later told the Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan that input from pro-life groups will be considered in formulating a final policy, but many pro-life and religious leaders continue to point out that any pro-IVF policy will be fundamentally anti-life.