Rethinking Ethical, Legal Relationship Between IVF & Abortion

US voters have elected a president who promised he would make the government or private insurance cover in vitro fertilization (IVF), yet takes credit for reversing Roe v Wade. These positions highlight a question that has lingered since US IVF practice began in 1981: are hospital and governmental policies that support IVF but do not support abortion ethically consistent? And if not, why is this division so common?