The “Make Our Children Healthy Again” strategy report promotes blame-and-shame fertility 

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The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission released a strategy report, “Make Our Children Healthy Again,” outlining the administration’s plans to improve children’s health. This strategy report is a companion piece to the MAHA Assessment released in May 2025.

The strategy report contains the MAHA Commission’s policy recommendations and priority initiatives, including an “education campaign to improve health and fertility” with a focus on lifestyle changes. It also proposes grants to help “address the root causes of infertility” and calls for the development of an “Infertility Training Center” which would “train Title X clinics to identify, treat, and refer for the underlying causes of infertility.” The idea that personal lifestyle choices are determinative of fertility outcomes and the lack of focus on assisted reproductive technology (ART) like IVF are key tenets of “blame-and-shame fertility,” an anti-reproductive freedom doctrine. These policy recommendations notably come on the heels of mass firings including the CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health and the team working on ART, a federal freeze on Title X funds, and elimination of Title X in the President’s Budget.