When Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota appeared to claim in campaign appearances and media interviews that he and his wife used in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive their children, was he being dishonest? Or was he seizing on the pro-family nature of fertility treatment to frame it as a motherhood-and-apple-pie issue?
Joseph Polidoro is a Sarasota, Florida-based independent science writer. His work has appeared in Scientific American and Science News.
