Democratic lawmakers are decrying President Donald Trump’s recent order on in vitro fertilization as nothing more than a “PR stunt,” while anti-abortion groups bristled over a move that follows Trump's campaign promise to make the procedure free.

Trump issued an executive order Tuesday directing the assistant to the president for domestic policy to give him a list of policy recommendations on protecting IVF access and “aggressively” lowering out-of-pocket and health plan costs for the procedure.

Democrats called on him to do more, perhaps looking to call his bluff.

"If he is actually serious about taking real action to accomplish his own campaign promise to make IVF free for everyone, there’s a simple way he can prove it: He can call on Senate Republicans to immediately back my Right to IVF Act that would require insurance plans to cover IVF,” said Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) in a statement.

“Otherwise, it’s all just lip-service from a known liar.”

Duckworth has long worked to create safeguards for the treatment that she used to conceive her two daughters after struggling with infertility for more than a decade. The Illinois senator reintroduced the Right to IVF Act last year, along with Democratic Sens. Corey Booker (N.J.) and Patty Murray (Wash). It sought to create a statutory right for Americans to........

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