MANASSAS – Gwen Walz, Minnesota’s first lady, and wife of Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate Tim Walz, chastised Republican vice presidential nominee Senator JD Vance of Ohio for his views on family during her first solo campaign stop in Virginia on Friday.
“I read that JD Vance was deeply upset by teachers who do not have biological children. “Well, for a long time, Tim and I were teachers who struggled with infertility, and we were only able to start a family thanks to fertility treatments,” Walz remarked at a “Educators for Harris-Walz” event.
“So, this is very personal to me, and I believe it is for millions of Americans. We don’t like people like JD Vance advising us when and how to start our families.
“Let me use my teacher voice: Mr. Vance, how about you mind your own business,” Walz remarked, to claps, shouts, and jeers from the room full of educators. They repeated it with her: “Mr. Vance, how about you mind your own business.”
Walz’s remarks came after Vance accused his Democratic competitor of lying about utilizing in vitro fertilization to conceive their two children, Hope, 23, and Gus, 17. The Republican’s assertion came in reaction to an August 19 Glamour magazine article claiming that pregnancy was achieved through IUI rather than IVF.
IUI may or may not require medicine for follicle expansion, although Gwen Walz told Glamour that a neighbor who was a nurse helped her administer “the shots I needed as part of the IUI process.” ( “She would give me the shots to ensure we stayed on track.” )
In speeches, Harris has criticized former President Donald Trump’s abortion policy and characterized Republicans as a threat to women’s rights, such as access to birth control, abortion drugs, and fertility treatments.
Trump stated on Thursday that if won in November, he would require the government or insurance companies to pay for IVF fertility treatments, a move aimed mostly at women and suburban voters.
“[He] strongly supports ensuring women have access to the care they need to create healthy families, including widespread access to IVF, birth control, and contraception, and he always will,” Trump campaign spokesman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement on Friday.
