@eobox91103 https://www.newswars.com/top-doctor-covid-vaccines-killing-babies-in-first-trimester-at-astonishing-rate/

Texas A&M professor of medicine Dr. Peter McCullough warns against vaccinating pregnant women for COVID-19, claiming the vaccines are completely unnecessary for pregnant women and are “directly killing babies in the first trimester.”

One nutcase on a conspiracy website. No more need be said.

Texas A&M professor of medicine Dr. Peter McCullough warns against vaccinating pregnant women for COVID-19, claiming the vaccines are completely unnecessary for pregnant women and are “directly killing babies in the first trimester.”

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https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2104983

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/ocqrto/the_new_england_journal_of_medicine_shows_that/

You're mis-reading the statistics.

First, let's dismiss the reddit post--it's on their "conspiracy" page.

Next, let's take a careful read of the NEJM article. The sample set was of 35,691 women. Table 1 shows that 86.5% of these were pregnant at the time of vaccination, and the remaining 15.5% became pregnant shortly after the vaccination. This does NOT mean, as conspiracy theorists want to believe, that the 86.5% somehow lost their pregnancy shortly after vaccination. It means that those 15.5% were women who became pregnant after the study and thus were included in it.

What was the outcome of the vaccinated pregnant women? Let's look at Table 4. The pregnancy and neo-natal outcomes from vaccinated-mother pregnancies were completely in line with incidence rates from the larger population--in fact is some areas, adverse outcomes were a bit lower than the larger population averages, but a much larger study would be needed to establish that.

So, based on real data rather than prejudiced preconception, one can confidently assert what the researchers (and their peer reviewers) stated:

RESULTS
Although not directly comparable, calculated proportions of adverse pregnancy and neonatal outcomes in persons vaccinated against Covid-19 who had a completed pregnancy were similar to incidences reported in studies involving pregnant women that were conducted before the Covid-19 pandemic.

CONCLUSIONS
Preliminary findings did not show obvious safety signals among pregnant persons who received mRNA Covid-19 vaccines.

In the results section, they say that just over 26% had negative pregnancy results. Just over half were miscarriages and the rest were live births but with serious complications.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2104983

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/ocqrto/the_new_england_journal_of_medicine_shows_that/

That's not true, and likely why that video page didn't cite a specific paper.

If you're willing to learn about this topic, see:

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-724952235185

https://news.wttw.com/2021/04/21/new-data-reassuring-covid-19-vaccination-pregnancy

https://www.healio.com/news/primary-care/20210426/preliminary-data-show-mrna-covid19-vaccines-safe-during-pregnancy

https://www.jwatch.org/na53527/2021/05/03/covid-19-mrna-vaccines-appear-safe-during-pregnancy