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the urban legend of "HCG" is ancient I read about it here in the Philippines 20 years ago, when a similar scare occured. Supposedly, there was an experimental "HCG" vaccine given to women to see if they would become sterile by making antibodies against this hormone, meaning that the very early embryo wouldn't grow. The rumor was that the experiment was done in the third world, including on Filipino women in the 1980's. However, that vaccine was never released

link from 1994

link from 1993 article lauding the vaccine might soon be released

report on phase one trial on women in 1988, that checked for side effects on women, but not a study if they got pregnant, since the Lancet aricle notes that it was used only on women already sterilized. I can't find phase two or phase three studies.

link to review article on these vaccines from 1996

However, I can't find any articles after those dates, except for articles on anti vaccine and other sites that aren't known for their scientific knowledge.

Since I've seen babies die of neonatal tetanus, I have little patience with this type of stuff.

and giving "sterile" scissors to midwives that one stupid person suggested won't work, because trained midwives already boil their scissors, and many tribes use a self trained midwife or even untrained relatives to deliver the baby. (In Liberia, we had a program to retrain these women to help prevent such problems)... Yet even if the stump was cut with a clean knife and dressed by the midwife, often mom (or grandmom) will remove it and place dirty herbs on the umbillical site.

As I'm sure you know, for at least 40 years WHO has been supporting and coordinating the development of a birth control vaccine based on human chorionic gonadotrophin (β-hCG). The majority of this work has been carried out in the laboratories of Dr V. C. Stevens at Ohio State University. Tetanus Toxoid vaccine (TT) laced with Beta human chorionic gonadotropin (b-HCG) sub unit has been used in Philippines, Nicaragua and Mexico to vaccinate women against future pregnancy. Beta HCG sub unit is a hormone necessary for pregnancy. When injected as a vaccine to a non-pregnant woman, this Beta HCG sub unit combined with tetanus toxoid develops antibodies against tetanus and HCG so that if a woman’s egg becomes fertilized, her own natural HCG will be destroyed rendering her permanently infertile. In this situation tetanus vaccination has been used as a birth control method.

I am sincerely interested understanding the above information. It's not like "they might use" or "they are accused of using" β-hCG to sterilize women. They do it intentionally as a birth control method. Except often the women are told it's just a tetanus vaccine.

Important as it is to prevent tetanus, don't you think that simultaneously sterilizing the women without their informed consent is unjustified?