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It may seem like pronatalism is the province of the Right, but when it comes to technological intervention, everyone wants to be the champion of babymaking. In the 2024 presidential election, both parties rushed to lay claim to in vitro fertilization, the procedure responsible for nearly 100,000 births each year. As a vice presidential nominee, Tim Walz claimed to have used IVF to grow his family, despite using intrauterine insemination, an entirely different procedure. On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump boasted that he was “the father of IVF.”