By: Darren Neblett

Tim Walz at the Fitzgerald Theater (AP Photo/Nicole Neri, File)

In an X post made on August 20, Senator JD Vance accused Governor Tim Walz of lying about Walz’s wife’s experience with contraception using IVF.

“Today it came out that Tim Walz had lied about having a family via IVF. Who lies about something like that?” said Vance in the X post.

The accusation follows after @KamalaHq, Vice President Kamala Harris’ official campaign account on X, posted a clip of Walz discussing reproductive rights on the “Pod Save America” podcast.

“If it was up to JD Vance, I wouldn’t have a family because of IVF. Democrats are investing in prenatal care. We’re the ones that are for universal pre-K. We’re the ones that are providing school meals. I’m not gonna back down one bit on this whole family values thing. We’re making it more affordable to have children by having paid family and medical leave. Where is JD Vance’s program?” said Walz in the X post.

During his time on the campaign trail, Walz has discussed his experience with artificial contraception in response to Republican lawmakers’ efforts to restrict access to it.

However, in a Glamour Magazine interview, Walz’s wife, Grace Walz, discussed her experience conceiving with IUF, not IVF.

“Instead, it was a neighbor—a nurse—who would come around to help ‘with the shots I needed as part of the IUI process.’” Walz said in a partial quote included in the Glamour article written by Natasha Pearlman.

An AP news article written by Chris Megerian and Laura Ungar included quotes from doctors saying that patients commonly refer to IVF as IUF, even though they are two different methods of contraception. 

“Dr. Jason Griffith, a reproductive endocrinologist at Shady Grove Fertility-Houston, said some patients are confused about the terms when they start treatment.” wrote Megerian and Ungar.