Trump says IVF religious exemptions is a 'pretty good idea' during interview

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump said that it would be a "pretty good idea" to have religious exemptions for his proposed in vitro fertilization (IVF) mandate.

“It sounds, to me, like a pretty good idea, frankly,” Trump said during an interview with Raymond Arroyo on Thursday at the 79th Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York City.

Trump has been campaigning on the issue of IVF, saying he would make it more accessible for women, even referring to himself as the "father of IVF" during a recent town hall.

His IVF mandate would require insurance companies to cover IVF treatments. 

Arroyo said during a conversation with Trump that Catholics and Christians object to the practice of IVF, calling it “morally unacceptable."

Trump was asked that if IVF was mandated under insurance whether or not there would be religious exemptions.

“I haven’t been asked that, but it sounds like a pretty good idea, frankly,” Trump responded, according to The Daily Wire. 

“Even Catholics, a lot of them, they want IVF," he continued. "It’s fertilization, basically, they view that as helping the family, helping parents have a child, and it’s a very popular thing, but certainly if there is a religious problem, I think people should go with that. I really think they should be able to do that. But we’ll look into that.”