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Study Links Frozen Embryo Transfers To Higher Rates Of Childhood Cancer

There are an estimated 1.2 million unused frozen embryos in the U.S. and millions more sitting in cryopreservation tanks across the world. The majority of these test tube babies will never be implanted in a womb. Instead, they will stay indefinitely preserved — literally frozen in time — until they are discarded or dissected. The small percentage of cryopreserved embryos that do escape the liquid nitrogen tanks, according to a new study out of Denmark, will experience a higher rate of childhood cancer than children who were conceived without ART.

Denmark has one of the highest rates of ART in the world — approximately 10 to 12 percent of the Danish babies born are the product of fertility help like in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), a process that involves isolating and injecting a single live sperm cell into a mature egg with hopes of fertilization.

According to researchers who examined 1,086,136 of the Land of Danes’ live births from 1996 to 2012, 3,736 cancers “occurred.” The study was careful to note that “absolute risks were low,” but indicated that the “modestly increased childhood cancer” rate is “procedure-related, rather than infertility-related.”

Babies born after they were conceived using ART had a higher rate of cancer incidence, 23.6 per 100,000 person-years, than their naturally conceived peers, 18.3 per 100,000. Those rates doubled in children born of frozen embryos, which yielded a 41.1 per 100,000 cancer rate, and also increased in children born after ICSI, 27.9 per 100,000.

Children born of IVF with fresh embryos — embryos that were created in a petri dish and implanted within three to five days after egg retrieval — did not show any specific cancer associations. Dane babies born of frozen embryos, however, suffered an 11.1 pediatric leukemia incidence rate, a 3.03 lymphoma rate, and a 7.63 soft tissue sarcomas rate.

ICSI also saw significant associations with lymphomas, soft tissue sarcomas, and an 8.2 per 100,000 incidence rate for central nervous system neoplasms.

This particular study is significant because it’s one of the longest and largest scientific examinations of children born using ART. Most IVF transfers in the U.S. and around the world involve frozen embryos. Yet the risks of those transfers are not always apparent or publicized.

“Nobody yet has long-term data on IVF as it is done today. Children conceived with today’s methods won’t have 20 years of data until the 2040s, so today’s IVF children are, in effect, the trial,” Josh Wood, executive director at Them Before Us, noted.

ART is more popular and profitable now than ever, but conceiving children outside of the human body doesn’t come without risks for mothers or their babies. In addition to the cancer incidence findings of this latest study, children who are conceived via IVF are at higher risk for preterm delivery, low birth weight, congenital heart problems, “neurodevelopmental disorders as well as potentially long-term metabolic outcomes,” and myriad birth defects.

Mothers who carry babies conceived by IVF also face risks such as ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome after egg retrievals, reactions to fertility drugs, infection, bleeding, bowel perforation, ectopic pregnancy, and an increased risk of major postpartum hemorrhage. Women who undergo fertility interventions also see a “transient increase” in the risk of certain cancers.

ART, like IVF, is often pitched to people struggling with infertility as a quick fix. Yet scientific data detailing the risks of outsourcing reproduction can be limited. In some ART, like surrogacy, data is more established but downplayed. That’s because detailing the imminent and measurable harm renting wombs has on women, babies, and intended parents puts the industry at risk of regulation and profit loss.

The cancer risk detailed in the recent Denmark study should raise concerns among reproductive technology specialists. Yet little to no legal or financial incentives exist for the global fertility industry to act on those concerns.

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Nurse: Stillbirths Exploded After COVID Shots Hit Maternity Wards

A California labor-and-delivery nurse says her Fresno hospital went from a handful of stillbirths a year to more than 20 in a single month once COVID shots were pushed on pregnant women, then answered the pile-up with an email on how to handle the dead.

The same product is now sitting in a federal file parents were told not to worry about. An analysis of the National Health Interview Survey, published yesterday, finds COVID-vaccinated children had higher odds of autism, ADHD, anxiety and special-education use than children who never received the shot, and the authors say the shots in children should stop.

Michelle Spencer has worked the antepartum, postpartum and labor-and-delivery floor at Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno since 2017. In interviews that Children’s Health Defense aired, she described the unit before the pregnancy rollout as a place that saw about four stillbirths a year. After the shots started going into pregnant women, she said, it became four a week, and it did not stop.

A total of 22 stillborn babies in 30 days against a baseline of four a year is more than the previous five years combined, on the order of a 6,500 percent jump in a single month. Spencer’s July 30, 2025 complaint in Fresno County Superior Court used a baseline of one fetal death a month before spring 2021 and about 20 a month after, and calls the rise a statistically significant surge of more than 400 percent.

She has said she cannot pull the hospital’s full record, so the monthly figure is her estimate from the floor. The document that is not an estimate is the email.

In September 2022, nurse manager Julie Christopherson wrote to nursing and technical staff about what the hospital called “demise patients.”

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Far-Left MA Gov. Maura Healey Wants Government Healthcare Workers to Barge Into the Homes of EVERY New Baby in the State “To Make an Assessment”

Far-left Democrat Governor Maura Healey is pushing a shocking new proposal that would expand state-funded home visits to the house of every single newborn baby born in the state.

Under the guise of “maternal healthcare” and mental health support, Healey wants government-appointed healthcare providers to physically enter the homes of parents to conduct “assessments” on families.

On Boston Public Radio, after pitching her postpartum package, Healey said this:

“Everybody in the state, when you have a baby, you’re going to have a home visit. You’re going to have a home visit within days, weeks, and that will be an opportunity for a healthcare provider to make an assessment and to see if you need some additional support and resources.”

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Surrogate Stunned After Learning Chinese Billionaire Building a Human “Baby Factory”

The corporate press has finally stumbled onto a surrogacy pipeline that should have triggered alarm bells in Washington years ago.

An American mother says she agreed to carry a baby for what she believed was a single father, only to learn the intended parent was reportedly a reclusive Chinese billionaire.

The woman, identified by CBS News as Judy, responded to an Instagram advertisement offering $120,000 for becoming a surrogate.

A single mother raising a seven year old child, she was living with her father and hoped the payment would help her secure a home of her own.

According to CBS, the agency presented the intended parent as a single man who wanted to expand his family.

Leaked documents reportedly connected the pregnancy to Xu Bo, founder of the Chinese video game company Duoyi Network and the subject of mounting scrutiny over his reported use of American surrogates.

Judy signed with Patriot Conceptions, a California agency whose website promotes its military veteran roots.

CBS reported that the company lists Haotian Bai as its founder, though Judy says she was given precious little information about the man whose child she was carrying.

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Democrats Invite Women To Freeze Their Eggs So They Can Go Fight Wars

The military has announced plans to cover costs for sperm and egg freezing for service members, expanding a negligent “reproductive” effort to the detriment of military personnel and their families.

The pilot program, launching Sept. 14 under the Veteran Families Health Services Act of 2025, will run for three years and reimburse costs of sperm freezing up to $500 and egg cryopreservation up to $10,000 for service members who meet deployment or separation requirements.

The program fulfills a longtime Democrat-backed effort to disassociate military women from maternal family roles; increases dissonance in already strained military families, further divorces procreation from spousal stability, and ensures mothers can be separated from their children.

The Sexes Are Not Equal in Combat
Women have supported the armed forces in non-combat roles since the development of the Army Nurse Corps in 1901, with increased but limited access to positions until 2013. At that time, then-President Barack Obama supported a lifting of the ban by former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. By 2016, gender specific roles in the military were effectively eliminated.

The exclusion of women from serving in combat roles has been justified. Combat poses the direct and imminent risk of injury and death, as well as placing soldiers in tactical locations that cannot adequately accommodate gender separation. Forward operating bases and outposts offer little to no separate housing or privacy barriers between the sexes. Experiential hardships can extend well beyond privacy, encompassing lack of food and sleep that disproportionately harm women.

A small-scale study of Army rangers claiming that women are less physiologically affected by rigorous training than men, does not match up with any large-scale studies of women exposed to extreme physical hardship. The study presents an insufficient apples-to-oranges comparison and should not be utilized as an argument to place excessive physical strain on women in the military.

The Biological Clock
Soon after the military opened doors to place women in hazardous duty stations, Democrat-led efforts for IVF-related services began. Building on that effort, in 2018 Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., called IVF the “most effective form of assisted reproductive technology” for service members whose fertility was affected by their service. Rather than improving health and safety for women, the costly, unethical, and dangerous technology was promoted.

Ten years after so-called integration, women who entered combat in their peak fertility years are now aging out of childbearing, or at least edging closer to the end of their fertile years. The possibility of deployment has likely affected the many military women choosing to begin families after age 35, further decreasing their likelihood of conceiving naturally.

As infertility continues to disproportionately plague women in service, IVF serves as an expensive, politically driven distraction.

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RFK Jr.’s “Gold-standard Science” Runs Into Another AI Citation Scandal

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent years denouncing the federal health establishment. And as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, he promised to replace its failures with “gold-standard science.”

Now his department appears to have replaced some of the science with AI hallucinations.

Earlier in August, a federal judge rebuked the Department of Health and Human Services for using scientific citations that either do not exist or do not support the claims attached to them. The citations appeared in official funding notices used to reshape the federal Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPP).

The episode is especially damaging because it is not the first. In 2025, the Kennedy-chaired Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission released a major report on children’s health that contained invented studies, garbled references, and visible fingerprints of artificial intelligence.

Phantom Studies Behind a Real Policy

The latest controversy comes from Hennepin County, Minnesota v. HHS, a lawsuit challenging Kennedy’s overhaul of the TPP.

Congress created the program to fund local initiatives shown to reduce teen pregnancy, along with “promising” approaches that could be tested. HHS took a much narrower approach in 2026.

The department issued new grant notices that pushed recipients toward abstinence, “body literacy,” reproductive-goals counseling and sexual-risk-avoidance education. A separate HHS policy notice barred programs from “encouraging, normalizing, or promoting sexual activity for minors” and required compliance with administration policies against “gender ideology” and DEI.

HHS also terminated virtually all existing TPP awards, according to the court.

That prompted Hennepin County, King County in Washington, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States to sue.

On August 19, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper granted a preliminary injunction against implementation of the new policy and funding notices. He found that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed on their claim that HHS acted arbitrarily and capriciously.

Then came the largely overlooked part that made national news this week.

A “Hallmark of AI-generated Citations”

HHS tried to support its new emphasis on “body literacy,” which it defines as understanding how a healthy body functions, including reproductive anatomy, physiology and hormonal patterns, and interpreting biological signals to make informed health decisions.

The problem was that much of the cited “science” could not be found.

 Cooper wrote:

On the topic of body literacy, the notices (remarkably) reference public health studies that appear either not to exist or not to support the propositions for which they are cited — a hallmark of AI-generated citations.

He continued:

Two out of the seven appear to be completely made up. Three of the seven did not publish in the cited journals but appear to have similar titles to articles published in completely different journals.… And according to the early-stage factual record, there seem to be no pregnancy prevention curricula and programs that “center [on] body literacy” and other newly-imposed TPP requirements.

HHS did not bury the questionable references in a stray litigation brief. They appeared in government notices telling applicants what “science” federal money would follow.

The court found a deeper problem. HHS itself acknowledged a “near absence of body literacy education standards nationwide.” Yet the agency made “body literacy” a central requirement for grantees.

Cooper said HHS offered no adequate explanation for imposing that approach across the program.

HHS funding materials nevertheless tell applicants that eligible programs must reflect “high-quality evidence of effectiveness” and align with its “commitment to gold-standard science.”

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New Zealand: Deaths up, fertility down; is this the legacy of covid “vaccines”?

The births and deaths figures for the year ended June 2026 have just been released by StatsNZ. Compared to the previous year: 

  • Births were down 3.6% 
  • Deaths were up 1.9% 
  • Fertility per woman was down 3.8% 
  • Infant mortality was up by 2.7%, although this last statistic was inflated to some extent by late registrations. 

The rate of deaths per thousand population had been declining since a peak of 7.59 in 2022, falling to 7.02 in 2025. The 2026 figures reversed this trend with a rise to 7.10. This compares to the 2015 – 2019 average of 6.84, meaning that deaths are currently running at 3.8% above pre-pandemic levels. This equates to an additional 1,411 deaths in the year to June 2026, which would not have been expected if pre-pandemic trends had continued.

The New Zealand (“NZ”) fertility rate has been declining every year since 2008 and is now at a historic low. The 2026 figures are 28% below levels necessary to maintain a population. Despite this, the NZ population is continuing to grow as a result of net immigration.

The most concerning figure in the latest data is therefore the upward movement in the rate of mortality. This increase in levels of excess mortality is very concerning. Although the 2026 rise does not yet amount to a trend, it should be a red flag. It points to a drop in the underlying level of immunity which is affecting the whole population.

In this light, it remains disturbing that Health NZ are not closely investigating the possible causes. A comparison of health outcomes of the covid-vaccinated with the unvaccinated is long overdue. Studies published overseas which we have covered have pointed to differences in rates of cancer and cardiac problems, for example. These have disproportionately affected younger age groups.

RCR has produced a comprehensive report showing that 311,257 NZ teens were exposed to an elevated risk of myocarditis from covid injections despite the government having been warned of this risk before rolling out vaccination for this age group. We have previously reported high levels of chest pain presentations for under 40s at emergency departments. Prior to the pandemic, it was recognised in the literature that there is a five-year elevated risk of complications following a myocarditis diagnosis. Five years have now passed since these injections. Health NZ should be following up and producing a very detailed picture of cardiac health outcomes as a precautionary measure. 

A great many published studies have focused on investigating an immune deficit following covid vaccination. Since the year-to-June figures were compiled, more evidence of a health deficit in NZ has emerged. You must have read about the depth of the current flu and winter illness seasonal health crisis. Hospitals are overwhelmed as never before.

On 15 August the NZ Herald reported ‘Middlemore Hospital hits ‘terrifying’ record as paramedics treat patients in corridors’. In one 24-hour period nearly 500 patients presented to the emergency department at Middlemore, beating the previous record of 280. 

According to Stuff newspaper, the St John ambulance service activated its major incident response and emergency operations centre after a week of sustained exceptional demand culminated in its busiest day on record.

This week Stuff headlined ‘Flu wards set up, elective surgery cancelled as hospital admissions surge’. The NZ Herald reported high rates of student absences due to sickness and parents unable to cope at home. The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners has asked practices nationwide to reinstate some covid-era infection controls, including phone-first triage and separating patients with respiratory symptoms.

Without a detailed investigation of the causes of the higher levels of sickness among the general population broken down by age, vaccination status and disease type, it is not possible for Health NZ to understand and respond appropriately to the current health crisis. A task force should be set up to undertake this analysis as a precautionary priority and make their findings public. This will inform and potentially reassure the public by determining how much of this effect is due to covid infection and how much to vaccination or other factors.

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Fauci Privately Flagged Miscarriage Risk Before Telling Pregnant Women There Were ‘No Red Flags’

Newly disclosed text messages show Dr. Anthony Fauci privately entertained the possibility that the COVID-19 vaccine could trigger first-trimester miscarriages, months before he told the public there was no risk.

The messages come from a trove that Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) released, containing more than 34,000 texts and 522 voicemails the Senate Homeland Security Committee pulled from Fauci’s government-issued phone. Among the trove is a January 2021 text chain between Fauci, Dr. Vivek Murthy and Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who went on to serve as the Biden administration’s surgeon general and CDC director, in which the three officials worked through how the vaccine’s risks might interact with pregnancy.

On Jan. 25, Murthy opened the thread with a question. “For pregnant women considering getting the vaccine, are you aware of any data or theoretical reason why vaccinating early vs late in pregnancy would be preferred? And any sense of when there will be more robust data on vaccine risk in pregnant women?”

Walensky noted that more than 15,000 pregnant women had already enrolled in the CDC’s V-safe vaccine safety monitoring system. Fauci wrote there “are no data or theoretical reason to believe that vaccinating early versus later in pregnancy would be preferred.” He also flagged a caveat that would later look prescient. “Yet, some people (even female health care professionals) feel concerned about injecting a ‘genetic’ vaccine very early in pregnancy,” he wrote.

Nearly two hours passed before Fauci circled back with something he had not mentioned the first time. “I asked around a bit more and another issue came up that you need to be aware of,” he wrote. “Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”

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The War on Drugs Has Come to the Maternity Ward

At first glance, a new mother taking part in a drug screening seems reasonable. For the sake of the mother and child, a doctor performs a clinical test to rule out any complications or signs of risks to the newborn.

But the story quickly takes a dark turn. If there’s a positive test result, it doesn’t stay between the doctor and the patient. In 24 states and Washington, D.C., a positive test alone is enough to initiate a child welfare report, according to a report by the Legislative Analysis and Public Policy Association. Depending on the state, that test could land the mother on a child abuse registry. Worse still, the mother may be notified the test has occurred only after the fact.

This seems to run afoul of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Ferguson v. City of Charleston (2001), where the Court found it unconstitutional to drug test pregnant women without consent solely for “law enforcement purposes.” 

However, Enrima Ukoha, an obstetrician-gynecologist and maternal-fetal medicine specialist at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, tells Reason this practice—known as “test and report”—is “common” and “often happens in non-consensual ways.” In fact, over six years, The Marshall Project found “at least 70,000 cases in 21 states” where parents were referred to law enforcement after a positive test for drug or alcohol use.

Ukoha says a lot of medical professionals are influenced by “stereotypes and stigma” associated with people who use substances in pregnancy, leading them to make “false assumptions about their ability to parent.”

The practice developed as part of the response to the opioid crisis roiling the nation. Each year, nearly 10 percent of births in the U.S. are affected by drug or alcohol use. 

To deal with the issue, Congress amended the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974 in ways that made it easier for these nonconsensual tests to occur. The 1974 law ties federal grant funding to state-level development of “plans of safe care” for infants “born and identified as being affected by substance abuse or withdrawal symptoms.” It also requires healthcare providers involved in the “delivery or care” of affected infants to “notify the child protective services system”; however, it also states that nothing in the law should be read as requiring “prosecution for any illegal action.”

In 2016, Congress passed an amendment changing the requirement to include infants affected by all substance abuse by striking the word illegal from its substance abuse clause. In 2018, lawmakers passed another amendment that put money behind the idea, authorizing grants to assist state agencies with “developing, updating, implementing, and monitoring” their plans of safe care. And in 2019, the law was again amended to provide “civil and criminal liability” to anyone who makes a “good-faith report of child abuse or neglect.”

There is no federal definition for child abuse or neglect. Left to their own devices, each state has adopted different standards for reporting and treatment. Ukoha says the process “varies across providers, institutions, and states,” but the result is that “individuals are tested in pregnancy without their knowledge or consent.” 

Apart from potentially being separated from their newborns, mothers risk placement on child abuse registries—which would prevent them from holding certain jobs or participating in school activities—or incarceration. In the case of Idaho mom Nicole Hamann, one positive test for THC got her 10 years on the state’s child protection registry, according to a joint report by CBS News and The Marshall Project. 

But moms can find themselves facing criminal charges even when the substances are legal. In South Carolina, Ayanna Harris-Rashid was arrested and faced a 10-year felony sentence after testing positive for THC. Harris-Rashid admitted to using CBD, which is legal in the state and can contain trace amounts of THC, to “relieve cramping and nausea.” Her charges were dropped a year after her arrest. 

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MORE FAUCI PHONE REVELATIONS: Newly Released Texts Show Biden Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Discussed Concerns About mRNA Shots Causing MUTATIONS in Developing Fetuses

Newly released text messages from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s government-issued iPhone expose yet another stunning example of the COVID regime’s two-faced messaging.

Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Rand Paul (R-KY) released the January 25-26, 2021 text chain Monday as part of the initial dump from more than 34,000 texts and 522 voicemails recovered from Fauci’s government phone. The exchange is damning.

Fauci himself raised the alarm about the second dose, writing that because “many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.” Walensky replied that it was “definitely a good point, esp after dose two.”

Then Murthy piled on. In a follow-up text, the man who would soon become Biden’s Surgeon General responded to Fauci’s concern by adding: “I’ve been hearing the concern about the mRNA causing mutations in the developing fetus as well. That’s a really good point re the cytokine storm post second dose.”

The very next day, Murthy flagged a World Health Organization announcement advising against pregnant women taking the Moderna vaccine due to lack of data, asking Fauci and Walensky for their take because “I imagine we will all get asked about this.”

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