WATCH: Harris calls Trump’s IVF claims ‘bizarre’

Vice President Kamala Harris says Republican Donald Trump’s comment that he is the “father of IVF” is “quite bizarre, actually.”

Trump made the comment during a Fox News town hall with an all-female audience that aired Wednesday.

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Asked about the Trump comment as she departed Detroit for a campaign visit to Pennsylvania on Wednesday, Harris said that “if what he meant is taking responsibility, well then yeah, he should take responsibility for the fact that one in three women in America lives in a Trump abortion ban state.”

She added that “what Trump should take responsibility for is that couples who are praying and hoping and working toward growing a family have been so disappointed and harmed by the fact that IVF treatments have now been put at risk.”

“Let’s not be distracted by his choice of words,” Harris said. “The reality is his actions have been very harmful to women and families in America.”

Trump had been promoting the idea that the Republican Party is a “leader” on IVF. That characterization is rejected by Democrats, who have seized on access to the common but expensive fertility treatment as another dimension of reproductive rights threatened by Republicans and a second Trump presidency.