Democratic Vice Presidential nominee and Kamala Harris' running mate Tim Walz has claimed during his campaign speeches that the issue of access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment is "personal" to him and his family because his wife used this procedure to conceive their two children. He apparently lied, and the person who revealed that he was not telling the truth was none other than his wife, Gwen Walz.
"Some of you may have heard this. [IVF] is personal for my wife and I. When Gwen and I decided to have children, we went through years of fertility treatments. The phone would ring, tenseness in my stomach and then the agony when I heard the treatments hadn't worked," he said in a rally in Wisconsin earlier this month. "So it wasn't by chance that when we welcomed our first child, our beautiful daughter, we named her Hope."
He told the same story during another campaign speech in Arizona, even pretending to be moved to tears.
But in a statement to CNN, Gwen clarified that they tried intrauterine insemination (IUI), a process she described as "an incredibly personal and difficult experience" – and not IVF.
"Like so many who have experienced these challenges, we kept it largely to ourselves at the time, not even sharing the details with our wonderful and close family. The only person who knew in detail what we were going through was our next-door neighbor," she said in the statement. "She was a nurse and helped me with the shots I needed as part of the IUI process. I'd rush home from school and she would give me the shots to ensure we stayed on track."
Intrauterine insemination is a common fertility procedure used by couples trying to conceive. However, anti-abortion groups have pushed state officials to restrict IVF when an egg is removed from a person's body and combined with sperm inside a lab before being implanted. During IUI, sperm is placed directly in the uterus. The process is sometimes combined with ovulation induction, where medication stimulates the release of eggs. People experiencing infertility often start with IUI and move on to IVF if needed.
Though usually confused to be the same, critics find it hard to believe that Walz did not know what exactly they had to go through to address their fertility woes. He was not confused just once, but twice.
Harris campaign spokesperson Mia Ehrenberg explained the Minnesota governor's prior use of the term IVF to describe his family's fertility issues by saying, "Governor Walz talks how normal people talk. He was using commonly understood shorthand for fertility treatments."
Walz faces backlash over IVF and IUI confusion
As Walz and the Dems put IVF as a central part of their election 2024 campaign, the VP candidate is now facing backlash over his confusion about the two fertility procedures.
His political rival and Republican Vice President nominee JG Vance slammed Walz for lying. He blasted him during a campaign speech in Milwaukee, saying, "It's just such a bizarre thing to lie about, right? There's nothing wrong with having a baby through IVF or not having a baby through IVF. Like, why lie about it? I just don't understand that."
"Anybody who's had a friend or themselves on fertility treatment, you know the difference," he added.
But the distinction matters politically because IUI doesn't risk destroying unused embryos that anti-abortion advocates equate to unborn children.
After Roe v. Wade was overturned, some anti-abortion groups began pushing for restrictions on IVF care. In February, Alabama's Supreme Court ruled embryos created by IVF treatments should be considered children, creating a pathway for the procedure to potentially be restricted under the state's abortion law.
Gwen pointed to the Alabama ruling as one of the reasons she and Walz began sharing their fertility struggles.
Meanwhile, X user Greg Price created a list of Walz's deceptive statements and posted them on the social media platform.
He said: "Update on the lies that Tim Walz has told: Being an Afghan veteran, being a command sergeant major, conceiving his children through IVF, knowing his unit was being deployed, carrying weapons into war, being a head football coach and lying about being deaf to get out of [driving under the influence] DUI." (Related: Tim Walz finally responds to his 'stolen valor' scandal, and he just made things 1000X worse.)
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