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After the Alabama Supreme Court declared that embryos are people in a controversial ruling earlier this year, briefly jeopardizing access to the fertility treatment known as in vitro fertilization, Minnesota Gov.Days after the court’s decision, Walz, a father of two, said he knew IVF would become a “foundational” campaign issue this November because he and his wife, Gwen Walz, had trouble having children.
“I said, ‘Not again,’” Walz told the paper. “She said, ‘No, I’m pregnant.’ It’s not by chance that we named our daughter Hope.”Hope Walz is now 23 and her brother, Gus Walz, is 17. Walz emerged as a vice presidential candidate after President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid last month and Democrats elevated Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of their presidential ticket. Democrats embraced his description of former President Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, as “weird,” and the Harris campaign used it with a particular focus on Republicans’ opposition to abortion, which they have said extends to IVF.
Walz again described his family relying on fertility treatments, which he described as “things like IVF,” during an online fundraiser last week, before he had been selected for the VP job.
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