Fauci Knew About the Miscarriage Risk. He Told You It Was Safe Anyway. Now People Are Getting Boosters to Thank Him.

I have four kids. I carried every single one of them. I threw up for nine months straight with my youngest. I know what it means to protect a pregnancy, and I know what it means when somebody in a government building with a fancy title looks you in the eye and says “trust me” while he’s sitting on text messages that say otherwise.

Republican senators just released Dr. Anthony Fauci’s text messages from January 2021. In them, Fauci himself talked about a “theoretical risk” that the COVID vaccine could be associated with miscarriages in the first trimester. He said there was no data showing it was better to vaccinate early versus later in pregnancy. This is the same man who went on television, every single night, and told pregnant women to get the shot. He had the texts in his phone. He had the concern in his own words. And he told you it was fine.

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Now, I’m not a scientist. I’m a mom who reads things. And what I read in those messages is a man who knew enough to worry privately and decided to reassure you publicly. That’s not science. That’s public relations. That’s covering your backside while you send other people’s bodies to the front line.

So here’s where it gets even harder to believe. Terrence K. Williams flagged this on social media: there are women on the left turning booster shots into a loyalty trend. Lining up for more doses, bringing their kids along, framing the whole thing as “standing with Dr. Fauci” while mocking RFK Jr. I haven’t seen a verified count of how widespread this is. It could be a handful of social media posts blown up to look like a movement. But even if it’s ten women, I want to sit every one of them down and ask: what are you doing?

You’re getting a booster to own the conservatives? You’re injecting your child with a pharmaceutical product to prove a political point? I’ve sat through enough pediatrician appointments to know you don’t give your kid medicine because you’re mad at a politician. You give your kid medicine because your kid is sick and the medicine helps. That’s it. That’s the entire bar.

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And the man you’re doing this for? He wrote “theoretical risk” about miscarriages in a text message and then told pregnant women to roll up their sleeves on national television. You’re standing with that? You’re bringing your kids to stand with that?

Here’s what galls me. The same people who spent four years screaming “my body, my choice” about every other medical decision under the sun suddenly can’t get enough of a government bureaucrat’s permission slip. The same crowd that doesn’t trust the FDA on food dyes will line up around the block because Fauci’s face is on a poster.

I did my own research. I read the messages. I read what Fauci said privately versus what he said into the camera. And I have a question for whoever is managing this whole operation: when exactly were you going to tell moms the truth?

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Because from where I’m sitting, you weren’t. You were going to let us find out years later in a document dump and hope we were too busy carpooling to notice.

We noticed.