Fact Check. Japan threatens Bill Gates after substances that cause abortion are found in anti-covid vaccines? – Observer

Several publications circulating on the social network Facebook allege that Japan threatened well-known businessman Bill Gates, after substances that could cause pregnancy termination were detected in the vaccines used to prevent Covid-19. “Japan warns Bill Gates that his ‘days are numbered’ after abortive drugs are found in vaccines”, can be read in one of the publications, which also states that the discovery was made by task force created by the Japanese government. Was it really like that?

The 68-year-old Microsoft owner and North American philanthropist has been, since 2000, the best-known face of the so-called Gavi Alliance, a Foundation project he created with his wife, Melinda, with the aim of improving access for children in poorer countries to vaccines — having already supported the vaccination of more than a billion children around the world. When the Covid-19 pandemic emerged, the Alliance began working on a way to facilitate access to vaccination for the entire world population, and, in 2024, announced that it would support the distribution of 200 million Covid vaccines to children in Africa and Asia.

Because of this, Bill Gates has been the target of the most varied conspiracy theories, which have become even more frequent since the pandemic. He has already been accused of having created the pandemic to benefit financially from the distribution of vaccines; of having said that Covid vaccines were intended to “control” humanity; of having paid 10 million dollars to make bird flu transmissible to humans; or having introduced HIV into the vaccine against Monkeypox (the so-called monkeypox) among other theories — all proven false.

Now, several publications point out that some Japanese scientists are asking “international prosecutors” to open a case of crimes against humanity against Bill Gates. But there is no indication to that effect. There is also no data to support the claim that Covid-19 vaccines contain any type of abortifacient medication nor that Japanese scientists have warned about this. In fact, according to a study carried out in three Saudi hospitals, and published in the scientific journal Cureus, vaccination is not associated with an increased risk of miscarriage in women vaccinated during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy. Another study, carried out with Dutch women, goes in the same direction: an association between vaccination against Covid-19 during pregnancy and the risk of spontaneous abortion was not identified.

Conclusion

There is no data to prove that Japan or Japanese scientists have threatened businessman Bill Gates over anti-covid vaccines. Furthermore, existing studies show that there is no relationship between vaccination and abortion.

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