President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to expand access to in vitro fertilization.

“The Order directs policy recommendations to protect IVF access and aggressively reduce out-of-pocket and health plan costs for such treatments,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X.

Will Scharf, the White House staff secretary and one of the president’s attorneys, said the order relates to the “affordability and availability of In Vitro Fertilization and other fertility treatments.”

He said the treatments have become unaffordable and the order examines ways fertility treatments can be more affordable.

“Fertilization, I’ve been saying that we’re going to do what we have to do and I think the women – and families, husbands – are very appreciative of it,” Mr. Trump said at his Florida Mar-a-Lago estate.

• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.