Tim Walz Lied About IVF

Tim Walz has decided that his IVF spiel is particularly effective.

The story goes that Walz and his wife struggled with infertility for years. They turned to the medical industry for answers and waited with bated breath for the phone call that the infertility treatments they were undergoing would be successful. The Walz family was lucky. Twenty-three years ago, Tim and Gwen welcomed their daughter Hope into the world. It’s a good story. (READ MORE: A Party at War With the Truth)

It pulls at the heartstrings and relates him to his audience — as he points out, an increasingly large number of Americans struggle with infertility.

Gov. Walz likes to tell this story right after reminding Americans to “mind their own damn business” when it comes to abortion and IVF treatments. The problem with that is that the way it frames Walz’s story makes it sound like he has IVF to thank for his daughter’s life. But that’s not exactly true.

Walz Called Out on IVF

The New York Times (of all places) called Walz out earlier this week after the Harris–Walz campaign clarified that the couple hadn’t used in-vitro fertilization (IVF), but rather intrauterine insemination (IUI) to conceive.

Those of us who assumed that the Walzes had used IVF to conceive (this author included), can be excused. It wasn’t just implied by the vice presidential hopeful’s campaign stump speech, according to the New York Times. In April, Walz’s campaign office for his race as governor mailed out an envelope that read, “My wife and I used I.V.F. to start a family.” (READ MORE: In Chicago, Democrats Veer Left)

Lest you think the New York Times actually wrote a hit piece on a Democratic candidate, the newspaper goes on to assure its readers that “Some patients say they are ‘doing I.V.F.’ as a catchall phrase for a wide range of fertility treatments.” If Walz is using that as an excuse, it’s a bad one. Americans who aren’t running for public office don’t need to be specific with their language. Walz does.

IUI is a different process than IVF. Frequently referred to as artificial insemination, IUI involves injecting sperm into a woman’s uterus using a catheter. Conception happens within the womb of the mother and there are no living souls in labs for doctors to discard or freeze. There are aspects of the process that are immoral, but murder isn’t one of them.

In IVF, sperm and egg meet in a lab, not in a mother’s womb. Each IVF treatment can create anywhere between seven and eight embryos (human lives) per treatment, most of whom are never born and are frozen and later discarded by the labs where they were conceived. The Catholic News Agency estimated that anywhere between 1.6 and 1.8 million embryos were killed between July 2022 and June 2023 — more than twice the number of lives that the abortion industry claimed during that same period.

It’s for that reason that pro-life advocates are opposed to IVF, but not necessarily to IUI.

Clarifying the Story Defeats the Point

But for Walz to clarify the situation defeats the purpose of telling his whole story. Religious Americans and pro-life advocates are perfectly willing to “mind their own damn business” when it comes to IUI — after all, babies aren’t being killed — just not when it comes to the millions of babies denied their mother’s wombs and frozen in massive vats in clinics across the country. (READ MORE: Where Did All the Yard Signs Go?)

The fact that the whole story is a lie (or, at best, is misleading) hasn’t stopped Walz from using it, even now that he’s been exposed. During his acceptance speech on Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, Walz once again told the whole story with his family present:

JUST IN: Tim Walz son starts bawling after his father repeated the lie that his children were conceived through IVF.

Walz, who clearly has a lying problem, repeated the lie after being fact-checked by his own wife.

“When asked if the Walzes wanted to share more details about… pic.twitter.com/fbP2kQcdy0

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 22, 2024

No apologies. No clarifications. Nothing to see here.

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