Defense Bill IVF Exclusion: Superficial Victory Masks Grave Moral Compromise
The Catholic News Agency portal (December 10, 2025) reports the U.S. House passed a defense authorization bill without mandating TRICARE coverage for in vitro fertilization (IVF). Pro-life groups praised Speaker Mike Johnson for removing provisions requiring taxpayer-funded IVF for military families. The article quotes Students for Life’s Kristy Hamrick calling IVF “a business model that by design destroys far more lives than are allowed to live,” while Tony Perkins of Family Research Council advocates “Restorative Reproductive Medicine” alternatives. Notably absent is any reference to Casti Connubii’s condemnation of artificial reproduction or Pius XII’s 1949 address declaring: “Artificial insemination outside marriage is to be condemned purely and simply as immoral… Within marriage, artificial insemination is likewise to be condemned” (Address to Midwives, October 29, 1951).









