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Vice-presidential hopeful Tim Walz and his wife, Gwen, �would never
have become� parents if President Donald Trump had his way, Gwen
recently said on a Democratic fundraising call. The implication was
that Trump and his running mate, J. D. Vance, don�t support fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (a false implication; both
men have expressed support for IVF).
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It was after seeing �extreme attacks on reproductive health care across
the country,� such as the Alabama court case that ruled embryos qualify
as children, that �Tim and I agreed that it was time to formally speak
out about our experience,� Gwen told Glamour. The couple has in the
past been candid about their fertility struggle. In July, Tim said,
�Thank God for IVF, my wife and I have two beautiful children.� Tim
also told rally-goers in Arizona earlier this month that �this one�s
personal for me about IVF and reproductive care. When we wanted to have children, we went through years of fertility treatment.�
The Walzes just clarified, however, that Gwen went through intrauterine insemination (IUI), a process that is much less contentious than IVF.
IUI is �a fertility treatment that gives sperm a better chance at
fertilizing an egg,� whereas IVF involves the creation of multiple
fertilized embryos in a lab. When asked about the inconsistency,
campaign spokeswoman Mia Ehrenberg said: �Governor Walz talks how
normal people talk. He was using commonly understood shorthand for
fertility treatments.� A charitable explanation is that Walz felt the
need to dumb down the specific fertility treatment his wife received;
IVF is, to be fair, a more commonly heard term than IUI, but it is
still a misclassification.
A couple�s fertility struggle is a deeply personal anecdote to use as a fundraising tactic � one that would be too personal to criticize, if
not for the fact that the Walzes misrepresented it.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-walzes-fertility-lie/
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