Wu gets personal about pregnancy journey while promoting Harris-Walz at DNC

“I felt very lucky to live in Massachusetts, in a state where our political leadership and community across the board has said we are going to protect women whatever it takes,” Wu said about her pregnancy to the Globe on Tuesday.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu speaks during a campaign rally in support of the statewide Massachusetts Democratic ticket, Nov. 2, 2022, in Boston. Wu announced in a statement Monday, July 22, 2024, that she is expecting a third child. AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File

Mayor Michelle Wu opened up about her pregnancy journey at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Tuesday. Wu, who is currently pregnant with her third child, spoke on the importance of reproductive rights at an event with the New Hampshire’s delegation to the DNC.

“It reminds me how much there is still to fight for,” Wu said told the delegates, The Boston Globe reported.

Wu told the delegates her family used “assisted reproductive technology” to become pregnant with her third child. She’s also publicly spoken about the miscarriages she experienced between the birth of her second child and her current pregnancy.

Her revelation comes as debates concerning reproductive rights and in-vitro fertilization take center stage in the presidential race. The Democratic nominee for vice president, Tim Walz, has spoken about his family’s journey with fertility treatments that led to the birth of his daughter Hope.

“It definitely hits hard when you’re in the middle of extreme devastation and heartbreak, and trying to figure out how to schedule these treatments, at the same time that people who have clearly no idea what they’re talking about are seeking to take legislative action to rip that away from families who desperately need that to be to be safe,” Wu said in an interview with the Globe on Tuesday.

Wu, Boston’s first female mayor, told the Globe she suffered a “missed miscarriage.” She went to the doctor early in her pregnancy for an ultrasound, but just saw “darkness and silence on the screen.”

She detailed the medical care she received to the delegates, the Globe reported. After she realized she suffered a miscarriage, she took the standard combination of mifepristone and misoprostol. Mifepristone is currently banned in 14 states, mainly because of its use in some abortions.

“I felt very lucky to live in Massachusetts, in a state where our political leadership and community across the board has said we are going to protect women whatever it takes,” Wu said to the Globe. “But also really angry that this was even part of the conversation.”