Across the world, frontline reproductive medicine professionals are sounding the alarm over mounting signals of harm in fertility, pregnancy, and paediatric outcomes following the Covid vaccine rollout. These are not isolated anecdotes but converging patterns emerging from clinical practice, national datasets, and lived experience. Some expert commentators have warned that the scale of what is being observed represents a Thalidomide-level event. History makes clear: failure to investigate warning signals condemns families, children, and future generations to irreparable harm.

Clinical Signals of Harm

The Cape Byron Lighthouse Declaration recently convened an international Fertility Roundtable to examine mounting concerns in reproductive health. Frontline professionals from paediatrics, obstetrics, IVF biology, genetics, and midwifery share their clinical observations as well as discussing a growing body of emerging data and published studies. With scientific rigour and professional integrity, they drew attention to disturbing trends that demand urgent scrutiny:

• Sharp increases in miscarriage and pregnancy loss during the vaccine rollout.
• Surges in neonatal deaths – including a clear rise following booster doses in 2022.
• Concerning observations from IVF laboratories of immature and abnormal oocytes, poor-quality or degenerating embryos, and complete loss of viable embryos in some cases.
• Placental abnormalities and increases in low-tone and ‘floppy’ newborns.
• Critical questions regarding how vaccines given in pregnancy may affect the child’s future fertility.

Each of these signals requires immediate, transparent investigation. The health of mothers, babies, and future generations is too critical to ignore or defer – and the cost of inaction could be immeasurable.

Systemic Failures and Betrayals of Trust

Foremost is the absence of baseline safety data. No adequate reproductive toxicology or long-term fertility studies were conducted before these products were recommended for use in pregnancy and infancy. This absence was exemplified by one vaccine manufacturer’s own trial in pregnant women as explained by US Board Certified Obstetrician Dr Kimberly Biss: ‘[They] did start a randomised, controlled trial. They had about 800 pregnant women enrolled. They were going to follow them up to six months after they had the babies, to follow the babies. They had to stop the trial and didn’t publish the results, because if they had had one more fetal anomaly or birth defect, that would have made it a statistically significant – meaning “bad for baby” – injection. So, they stopped the trial and we don’t have a long-term trial on pregnant women.’

Compounding this failure, clinicians were denied access to the most basic information: patient vaccination status. Even when requested, it was withheld. To add a field for vaccine status to existing databases would have taken minutes, yet officials argued it might increase ‘vaccine hesitancy’. This deliberate blindfolding crippled doctors’ ability to assess risk, recognise patterns of harm, undermining not only their professional duty of care, but also their most basic ethical responsibilities.

At the regulatory level, definitions were deliberately shifted to enable untested gene-based technologies to be reclassified as ‘vaccines’. Retired NHS Paediatrician and Neonatologist Dr Rosamond Jones explains, ‘[The vaccine companies] thought this was going to be a gene product, and that’s what they were anticipating. In fact, the WHO started doing draft guidelines for new regulatory system for these totally new products. And then people were in such a rush, they just said, “Oh, don’t bother with that. Let’s just use the vaccine approval system.”’

This regulatory sleight of hand enabled a leapfrogging of the rigorous safety protocols once considered non-negotiable. The precautionary principle – a bedrock of medicine – was abandoned. Informed consent was rendered meaningless: parents were not told these injections had bypassed the very trials intended to protect them and their babies. Frequently, this pressure descended into outright coercion: ‘Take this vaccine, or you are putting your baby at risk.’

Censorship of the Roundtable

The Fertility Roundtable has itself been subjected to extraordinary censorship. Emails sharing the recording were blocked as ‘dangerous’, and social media platforms restricted reach through throttling and shadow-banning. Serious medical discussion by qualified professionals was deliberately suppressed, silencing the very experts tasked with protecting public health.

This raises an obvious question: if there is nothing to hide, why censor a professional roundtable? Suppressing dialogue does not safeguard public health – it undermines trust and delays the identification of genuine risks.

The Lessons of History

The darkest chapters of medical history were written not just by mistakes, but by corporate deceit and institutional betrayal – yet here we are again, forced to ask: will we ever show the resolve to end this pattern once and for all?

Thalidomide was marketed as ‘safe’ for pregnancy across 46 countries, with estimates of over 100,000 miscarriages and stillbirths. It led to 10,000-20,000 babies born with severe malformations, nearly half dying before their first birthday. The manufacturer suppressed evidence of harm, while governments and regulators delayed withdrawal despite escalating warnings.

Valproate, another drug prescribed in pregnancy, was associated with up to a 40 per cent risk of severe developmental disability. Despite this, regulators failed to warn women of childbearing age, abdicating their most basic duty to protect the public. Decades later, the Cumberlege Review confirmed the truth – officials had chosen to protect industry and institutional reputations rather than mothers and babies.

The lesson is brutal but clear. Corporations conceal risk; regulators and governments enable it. The very institutions designed to hold industry to account instead become complicit in its deceit. Parents and children pay the price, while those responsible deflect and delay. This is precisely the pattern repeating today with Covid vaccination in pregnancy. We cannot – and must not – allow denial and delay to once again multiply the damage.

A Call to Action

Roundtable host Professor of Economics Gigi Foster says the path ahead is clear. ‘We all collectively have a responsibility to insist (that) the scientific approach to this problem … be taken by people in authority, by scientists, by those publishing, by editors, by referees. We are the stewards, really, of the scientific method, and we must check people when they aren’t using proper science. It really is our collective responsibility.’

The signals are clear. The failures are undeniable. History has already shown us what happens when warnings are silenced, data is buried, and reputations are prioritised over lives. To stand by in silence now is to accept the same betrayal repeated.

We call on medical professionals, regulators, lawmakers, and every member of the public: demand transparency, demand open data, and demand urgent investigation.

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Together we must break through the censorship that seeks to keep this conversation hidden. The health of our babies, our families, and future generations hangs in the balance. This is not an abstract policy debate – it is a test of whether we have the courage to act before it is too late. To look away now would not only be complicity – it would be a crime against humanity.