Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who is on the Democratic Party ticket with Vice President Kamala Harris, was incorrect when he said he had children because of in vitro fertilization (IVF), his wife said.
Gwen Walz told news outlets in a statement that she and her husband used a different fertility procedure, intrauterine insemination, 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,” Gwen Walz said.
The only person who knew about the procedure, which involves using a catheter to place sperm in the uterus, was the couple’s next-door neighbor, a nurse who administered the treatments to Gwen Walz, according to the Minnesota governor’s wife….