The revelation invited a sharp attack from GOP VP candidate JD Vance who earlier accused Tim Walz of lying about serving in war. “Today it came out that Tim Walz had lied about having a family via IVF. Who lies about something like that?” JD Vance said.
Gwen said the fertility process was a difficult and personal experience. “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,” she continued.
In IVF, egg is removed from a person’s body and combined with a sperm in the lab and then it’s implanted in the womb but in intrauterine insemination, sperm is placed directly in the uterus.
Harris campaign, however, dismissed the IVF, IUI row and said Tim Walz referred to it as IVF like a normal person as IVF is the commonly understood shorthand for fertility treatments.
Gwen said that they decided to formally speak about their struggles with infertility and their journey after seeing the extreme attacks on reproductive health care.
