August 21, 2024
With every passing week, it seems like more and more of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’ background and resume are under question. First, it was his military service and alleged stolen valor. Then, it was the Governor’s ties to China.
This time, it’s how his family began.
During the campaign so far, and most notably during the introductory speeches in Philadelphia earlier in August, Gov. Walz implied that in vitro fertilization (IVF) was why he and his wife were able to have kids to begin with. But it seems his implication was just that, according to reporting by Fox News.
“Tim Walz stated during an interview with MSNBC in July that he had IVF to thank for their children, saying, “Thank God for IVF, my wife and I have two beautiful children.” In other instances, Walz referred to “fertility treatments” and stressed that the issue of IVF rights remained “personal” for him due to the struggles he and his wife went through to have their children.
Tim Walz has made his support of IVF a central cause after the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos created by IVF treatments should be considered children, which would lay the groundwork for further legislation on treatments.”
However, Walz and his wife never used IVF – but instead, Intrauterine Insemination (IUI), more commonly known as artificial insemination. If IVF wasn’t in the news cycle as a contentious political issue that the Democrats have been seeking to exploit, it’s entirely possible Walz would’ve never made this claim.
But what is the difference and why does it matter?
According to Mayo Clinic’s website, “Intrauterine insemination (IUI) is a procedure that treats infertility. IUI boosts the chances of pregnancy by placing specially prepared sperm directly in the uterus, the organ in which a baby develops. Another name for the procedure is artificial insemination.”
On the other hand, IVF is far more problematic, according to an article on our sister site Students for Life of America (SFLA), because “the vast majority of embryos (80%) produced during IVF and chosen for transfer still fail to implant or to result in a liveborn infant”. Simply stated, the costs associated with IVF mean that businesses will attempt to create human embryos in volume. The ones not used are discarded or donated.
Estimates suggest that more die from IVF than abortion, with the Catholic News Agency stating:
“The CDC estimates that more than 238,000 patients attempted IVF in 2021. If clinics created between seven and eight embryos for every patient, that would yield about 1.6 million to 1.9 million over a year. Despite these high numbers, fewer than 100,000 embryos were brought to term, which suggests that somewhere between 1.5 million and 1.8 million embryos created through IVF were never born.
READ: What to Expect When You’re Expecting to Talk about Invitro Fertilization (IVF)
JD Vance asked the right question about this entire matter on X (formerly Twitter) when the news broke: “Who lies about something like that?”
Any person willing to lie about the origins of his children isn’t a morally good person. And any person willing to use the discarding of numerous embryos as a political tool in that storyline, certainly isn’t.
But then again, this is the same governor who pushed for limitless abortion until birth, and even beyond. His evil nature was never really in question to begin with; now it just has more layers.
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