Walz panders with deeply ‘personal’ story about IVF, but it’s totally untrue
Is this in the same vein as his “stolen valor” lies? Or, is he just demonstrably uneducated and uninformed? Well, we’re talking about Tim Walz, so it’s hard to know. Now, Walz has been claiming that he and his wife used in-vitro fertilization, or “IVF” in order to have children; as it turns out though, this is entirely untrue. Walz and his wife reportedly turned to intrauterine insemination, or IUI, when they apparently struggled to conceive—is that because his wife is a beard and the mechanics needed for procreation aren’t...
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