The administration’s charged rhetoric comes as Trump seeks to establish his bona fides with the pronatalist movement, which supports policies that would boost the U.S. birth rate and has ties to Christian nationalist and conservative Catholic communities. This month he announced steps that he said would make fertility care more affordable. Dr. Mehmet Oz, who oversees Medicare and Medicaid, predicted a wave of “Trump babies” because of the two initiatives: a negotiated discount for one of the drugs used in in vitro fertilization, and guidance for employers to offer standalone fertility insurance, though employers wouldn’t receive any incentive to actually provide that coverage.
Trump used his Truth Social account over the weekend to continue spreading inaccurate and misleading information about not just pregnancy but childhood vaccines — ideas that could disproportionately affect working mothers.
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