MANASSAS – Gwen WalzFirst Lady of Minnesota and wife of the Vice President Kamala Harris’ running buddy Tim Walzthe Republican vice presidential candidate chided the senator JD Vance of Ohio for his views on the family during her first separate campaign events on Friday in Virginia.
“Now I read that JD Vance said yes. really disturbed 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 because of fertility treatment,” Walz said at the “Educators for Harris-Walz” event.
“So it’s really personal for me and I think it is for millions of Americans.” We don’t take kindly to people like JD Vance telling us when or how to start our families.”
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“Let me use my teacher voice: Mr. Vance, how about you mind your own business,” Walz said to applause, cheers and jeers from a roomful of educators — and they echoed her, “Sir.” Vance, how about you mind your own business.”
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Walz’s remarks followed Vance’s accusation that his Democratic rival he lied about using in vitro fertilization to conceive their two children: daughter Hope at age 23 and son Gus at age 17. The Republican’s claim was in response to an Aug. 19 Glamor magazine article that exposed IUI conception versus IVF.
IUI may or may not require medication to grow follicles, but Gwen Walz described it Charm how a neighbor who was a nurse helped give her “the injections I needed as part of the IUI process.” (“She gave me shots to make sure we stayed on track.”)
In speeches, Harris attacked the former president Donald Trump‘s abortion stance and portrayed Republicans as a threat to women’s rights, including access to birth control, abortion medication and infertility treatment.
Trump said Thursday that he would require the government or insurance companies to do so pay for IVF fertility treatment if elected in November, it will likely be a move to appeal to women and suburban voters.
“[He] strongly supports women having access to the care they need to create healthy families, including broad access to IVF, birth control and birth control, and he always will,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Friday.