Tim Walz's Wife Gwen Discloses She Used Different Fertility Treatment Than IVF

CBS Minnesota

August 22, 2024

Gwen Walz, the wife of Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz, disclosed in a piece published in Glamour this week that the fertility treatments she underwent were intrauterine insemination treatments, rather than in vitro fertilization.

"Our fertility journey was an incredibly personal and difficult experience," she said, in discussing the IUI treatments. "We hope other families find solace in our story." She said a neighbor who happened to be a nurse would come help with the "shots I needed as part of the IUI process."

She acknowledged that the reason she and her husband decided to talk about their struggle with infertility was because of the threat to in vitro fertilization treatments, in particular, the Alabama Supreme Court ruling in February that frozen embryos made through IVF are children under the state's Wrongful Death of a Minor Act.

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