Evangelical leader tap-dances around CNN host's question on Trump's latest remarks
Longtime right-wing evangelical leader Ralph Reed tap-danced around a CNN host's question about Donald Trump's new remarks about fertility treatment.
The former president declared himself the “father of IVF,” a widely used fertility treatment threatened by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, during a Fox News town hall, and CNN's Kasie Hunt asked Reed – whose Faith & Freedom Coalition is spending tens of millions of dollars to turn out the evangelical vote for Trump – if he was "morally comfortable" with those remarks.
"I personally am and our organization is, I mean, obviously there are moral and ethical concerns when you're, when you're fertilizing embryos, when you're dealing with a fertility situation in terms of how many are fertilized and how they're dealt with," Reed said. "Are they discarded? Is it done willy-nilly, is there no concern at all for moral, ethical and religious concerns? I think we can work through those issues."
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Senate Republicans last month blocked a Democratic bill that would protect access to in-vitro fertilization and require public and private insurance coverage that and other fertility treatments, arguing it was a "cynical" political stunt ahead of the election, but the GOP has been forced to play defense on the issue since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that frozen embryos should be considered people.
"Kasie, we're pro-life, and this is about couples that are struggling to have a child, to bring a life into the world," Reed said. "I don't see how we could say we're pro-life and say that we don't want to help struggling couples have children. We want more people to bring lives, unborn children to fruition and to life, and so I don't have any issue with it at all."
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