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Is it true: Fertility and Contraception Conspiracy Claims?

Debunked80% confidence

No — this has been debunked.

Claims that COVID-19 vaccines, HPV vaccines or hormonal contraceptives are covert programs to cause infertility are debunked. Large studies of pregnancies, couples trying to conceive and IVF patients found no fertility effect, and the CDC, WHO, FDA and ACOG state these do not cause infertility. Past coercive sterilisations were real, but they were surgical procedures, not pharmaceutical products.

The claim

Claims that contraception, vaccines, or reproductive medicine are covert fertility-control programs.

Key evidence

Yeadon and Wodarg raised syncytin-1 homology concern in EMA petition

Zauche et al. NEJM 2021: No elevated miscarriage risk in 35,000+ vaccinated pregnancies

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