Trump’s executive order on IVF renews debate over whether the treatment is ethical in the first place

President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at lowering costs for and reducing barriers to in vitro fertilization last month .

Some are celebrating the promise of IVF as a treatment for infertility while others are urging the administration to proceed with caution on fraught moral questions posed by the creation and destruction of human embryos outside the womb.

Dr. Katherine McKnight , a reproductive endocrinologist in Houston , Texas , said she is interested to see the outcome of the executive order.

She said she believes the embryo is not necessarily a life until it implants in the uterus of the mother.

Prominent conservatives, including “ Fox & Friends ” co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy , have taken to social media calling on Trump to address the underlying causes of infertility.