Claim: Japanese scientists allegedly discovered abortion-inducing drugs in COVID-19 vaccines linked to Bill Gates.

What the evidence shows

There is no credible evidence that Japanese scientists discovered abortion-inducing drugs in COVID-19 vaccines. The claim circulated online in 2024 through articles and social-media posts that presented allegations about Japanese researchers and COVID-19 vaccines without providing evidence that such substances had actually been detected in the vaccines.

The claim also conflates separate issues. Some Japanese researchers have publicly criticized COVID-19 vaccines and called for further investigation of their safety and effects. Such criticism does not establish the separate allegation that abortion-inducing drugs were found in COVID-19 vaccines.

The allegation that Bill Gates personally laced vaccines with such substances is likewise unsupported. Gates has been involved in vaccination advocacy and has funded health and vaccine-related initiatives through his philanthropic work, but that does not establish that he manufactured COVID-19 vaccines or secretly added abortion-inducing drugs to them.

The story also appears to draw on older claims about vaccines and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). Those allegations concerned different vaccines and a separate controversy and do not provide evidence that hCG or abortion drugs were secretly added to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.

Conclusion

The claim that Japanese scientists discovered abortion-inducing drugs in COVID-19 vaccines linked to Bill Gates is unsupported. No reliable evidence has been presented showing that such substances were detected in the vaccines, and the available evidence does not establish that Bill Gates secretly added them.