Catholic bishops denounce Trump’s IVF deal

Several Catholic bishops denounced the Trump administration’s effort to expand access to in vitro fertilization, commonly referred to as IVF.

In a statement released Friday, three top bishops from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said they “strongly reject” IVF and other fertility treatments that “freeze or destroy precious human beings and treat them like property.”

“Without diminishing the dignity of people born through IVF, we must recognize that children have a right to be born of a natural and exclusive act of married love, rather than a business’s technological intervention,” the statement said. “And harmful government,...