Tim Walz seems to have a problem telling the truth or mixing things up so that it’s confusing. Tim Walz says that his children were conceived through IVF, but that’s not true. His wife said they used IUI – a different process. Tim Walz was actually fact checked on this and numerous media outlets reported on it. Politifact did a lengthy report talking about how Tim Walz conflates his story. The report on Politifact also discussed the differences in both processes.
Walz has tied the IVF discussion to his family’s fertility challenges.But in speaking about IVF — a treatment that involves collecting mature eggs from ovaries and fertilizing them with sperm in a lab — Walz has at times made statements that have given the impression that he and his wife started their family using IVF, including in his inaugural remarks as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate. But the Walzes used another fertility treatment called IUI, or intrauterine insemination, which is often a precursor to IVF for patients.
