The former president, who frequently takes credit for helping to overturn Roe v. Wade, has been trying to reposition himself on the issue of reproductive access
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Former President Donald J. Trump during a Michigan trip last week. He has focused heavily on the state this year.
Former President Donald J. Trump said on Thursday that he would require insurance companies or the federal government to pay for all costs associated with in vitro fertilization treatments if he is elected in November, further trying to rebrand himself to voters on an issue that has cost Republicans at the ballot box: reproductive access.
During a campaign stop in Michigan, his third visit to the battleground state in a little over a week, Mr. Trump said he would also allow new parents to deduct major expenses for newborn children from their taxes, while providing few other details.
“Because we want more babies, to put it very nicely,” Mr. Trump said at the first of consecutive events on Thursday in Midwest states that he won in 2016 but lost in 2020; he also went to Wisconsin for a town-hall event on Thursday night.
He continued: “So we’re pro-family. Nobody’s ever said that before.”
Mr. Trump’s remarks at a steel processing and distribution facility in Potterville, Mich., near the state’s capital, Lansing, fit a recent pattern of what appeared to be appeals aimed at women, a group that polling shows widely favoring Vice President Kamala Harris.
In a social media post on Friday, Mr. Trump tried to recast himself as having empowered the states to decide abortion limits as a result of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022. While taking questions from reporters at a campaign event in Nevada later on Friday, he repeated his contention, a message that appeared to contrast with his past declarations to religious right groups taking credit for the court’s ruling.
“I’m very strong on women’s reproductive rights,” said Mr. Trump, who during his presidency appointed three of the justices who voted to overturn Roe, in Nevada last week.
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