In case you missed it, Planned Parenthood Action Fund President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson spoke to the Democrats’ Daily Blueprint this week, where she talked about Trump’s broken promises to expand access to IVF and his continued attacks on reproductive freedom. 

Broken promises are becoming the motto of the Trump administration — so, it comes as no surprise that his campaign promise to expand IVF access and protect women’s reproductive health care was all a lie. Republicans pretend to be “pro-family,” but they’re the ones making it harder for Americans to start and support families of their own.

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You can find highlights from the conversation below: 

On Trump’s broken promises to protect women and expand IVF: 

President Alexis McGill Johnson: “[Trump] told voters that the government would actually pay for IVF treatment and mandate that insurers cover it. And, you know, he also said he was going to leave abortion rights to the states, and candidate Trump said that he was going to be a protector of women. We know that every single line of that was just lip service. In the eight months that he has been in office, rather than expand access to reproductive care so that women and families can make decisions about whether, when, or how they’re going to start their families, we’ve only seen this administration take measures to do anything but.”

On the real impact of Trump’s bait-and-switch on IVF:

President Alexis McGill Johnson: “Even though [Trump] promised all of these things, people are now seeing how much he is backtracking that. I’ve heard not only about the impact on IVF, [but] we now have patients who are worried they’re no longer going to be able to access birth control or STI testing and treatment. 

“They’re not going to be able to get care from Planned Parenthood because of all of the ways in which this administration has gleefully gutted our Medicare and Medicaid infrastructure. Gutting our social safety and our health care systems and really transferring those those dollars that have been intended to support sexual reproductive health care for many of our working and low-income Americans, and transferring that wealth to billionaires.” 

On what people can do to protect reproductive health care access in their communities: 

President Alexis McGill Johnson: “We’re really trying to help people understand why it is that they can’t have the things that they want in the communities and states in which they live, and putting the clear focus and responsibility on those [Republican] lawmakers for not listening to their constituents and using anti-democratic mechanisms to lock further lock them out of power. …

“We believe that all politics is local, and so we have to work state by state to ensure that we are strengthening communities to fight back against this horrible regime. 

“We’re also making sure that we are fighting back using every tool at our disposal. We have seen victories over the last few years. We have secured critical abortion rights protections at the state level. We have an opportunity to build on them. …

“[W]e’re going to bring public awareness to all of our friends and neighbors and families. And sharing our stories is a really powerful antidote to these horrible policies that are being enacted so that people are primed at every opportunity — when they have to make a choice on who is going to best represent them — that they have all of that information at their ready, so they can make the best informed decision to fight for reproductive freedom.”