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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love this article about Gov Walz in the Atlantic ("More People Should be Talking About IVF the way Tim Walz Is"). It is a reminder that IVF and fertility access affects men as well as women, and reproductive freedom isn't just a women's issue.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/08/tim-walz-ivf-reproductive-rights/679404/

Walz is plainspoken when he describes the seven years he and his wife, Gwen, spent going through fertility treatments. “I remember praying every night for a call for good news, the pit in my stomach when the phone rang, and the agony when we heard that the treatments hadn’t worked,” he said at the Tuesday rally. On July 25, World IVF Day, he posted on X: “When Gwen and I were having trouble getting pregnant, the anxiety and frustration blotted out the sun.” Every time I read that metaphor, I get teary-eyed at the immensity of their pain, how it overwhelmed everything else.

I’m also struck by how central Walz is to these anecdotes. Men can be seen as peripheral to the IVF process, like their job is just to give sperm. And it is much more physically taxing to have to take medication to stimulate egg growth, undergo surgery to have those eggs collected, and then have another procedure to get an embryo implanted in you. But you’d hope that men are taking an active emotional role, and that they’re supporting whomever the embryo is placed in—whether that’s a partner or a surrogate. And of course, the end result will shape both partners’ future for a lifetime. Walz makes clear that he wasn’t just standing by his wife through all of this. When they got bad news, he was grieving; when she finally got pregnant, he also felt the wave of joy and relief. It’s his story too.

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Well said.[/quote]

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