New IVF Rules Bring Hope — and Moral Questions: Abby McCloskey

Last week, President Trump released new federal guidance encouraging private employers to include fertility treatments in their insurance coverage and announcing an agreement to reduce the cost of some IVF-associated drugs.

For those dealing with the disheartening struggles of infertility, this is good news. Republican Senator Katie Britt said it was the “most pro-IVF thing that any president in the history of the United States of America has done.”

But from a regulatory perspective, it’s more gas in a car without a steering wheel. We barely have regulations on the books about IVF. Yet IVF is the opening gate for ...