Donald Trump calls himself 'father of IVF' at Fox News town hall

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump called himself “the father of IVF” during a widely publicized town hall with Fox News, also repeating attacks on what he calls the “enemy within.”

The town hall had an all-female audience and was billed as a conversation about the issues impacting American women. Trump faces a wide gender gap in pre-election polls, with most female voters favoring Vice President Kamala Harris.

But when a crowd member asked about his position on access to abortion and in vitro fertilization, Trump said, “I’m the father of IVF, so I want to hear this question.”

It was not immediately clear whether the former president was talking about his own family or the proceedings more broadly.

Trump didn’t just talk about reproductive rights during the event, however. He also repeated attacks on his critics and political enemies, calling them “the enemy from within.”

Here are some key moments from the town hall.

‘I am the father of IVF’

Trump tried to use the all-female town hall to ease political pressure on reproductive rights.

IVF became a central part of the 2024 election after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that the embryos used in the procedure are children, a decision that came after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

As the Alabama legislature quickly enacted new rules aimed at protecting IVF providers, the back-and-forth fueled questions about reproductive debates beyond abortion, including access to IVF, contraception and more.

“I want to talk about IVF,” Trump said on Tuesday. “I am the father of IVF.”

“We want conception, and it is totally, and the Democrats tried to attack us on it, and we are there on IVF, even more than them. So we are fully in favor of it.”

Trump has said he supports access to the procedure in the months since the Alabama decision. Over the summer he said that if re-elected, his second government would ensure people seeking IVF had their costs covered.

The moment during Tuesday’s town hall drew immediate criticism from Harris and other Democrats. Speaking to reporters in Detroit, the vice president noted that Trump supports states’ rights to ban abortions, and that some conservative voices have called for restrictions on IVF.

While the former president supports states enacting their own abortion restrictions, he also says he personally supports three common exceptions for rape, incest and medical emergencies. Trump reiterated the point when asked why the government should be involved in abortion decisions, one of the few non-friendly questions raised during the town hall.

‘I wasn’t out of control’

Trump on Tuesday did not shy away from comments he made about opponents he has called “the enemy from within” – and referred to the use of the National Guard or the military.

The former president has faced questions after a Sunday interview with Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo, in which he said the main threat to the country is not foreign adversaries but “people from within.”

During the interview, he added that the unrest after next month’s elections “should be handled very easily by, if necessary, the National Guard, or, if really necessary, by the military, because they cannot let that happen.”

In recent campaign appearances, Harris has accused Trump of threatening to unleash the military on opponents, claiming that “he considers anyone who does not support him or will not submit to his will to be an enemy of our country.”

However, Trump told the Fox town hall this week: “I thought it was a nice presentation — I wasn’t unhinged.” He called his enemies “very dangerous”, but also “Marxists, communists and fascists”, accusations he has been making for months without evidence.

Trump has also long claimed without evidence that the criminal charges he faces are fueled by his political rivals. Trump, who has been charged in four separate criminal cases, is the first convicted person to have a serious chance of winning the US presidency. He will be sentenced on November 26 for his conviction in a hush money case in New York.

‘We get better viewing figures’

At the start of the event, Trump made a joke that struck a chord with the family of Amber Thurman, the Georgia woman whose death was linked to a state abortion ban.

Fox News moderator Harris Faulkner opened the town hall by telling Trump that Democrats had organized a “preliminary” media call with members of the Thurman family.

“We’ll get better ratings, I promise,” Trump said

Donald Trump calls himself ‘father of IVF’ at Fox News town hall

‘I am the father of IVF’

‘I wasn’t out of control’

‘We get better viewing figures’

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