Fri Jul 1, 2022 – 4:27 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Several mainstream media outlets have seized on a line in conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s recent dissenting opinion in a COVID-19 vaccine mandate case to falsely insinuate he spread so-called misinformation about the use of aborted fetal cells in the shots’ development.
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a religious liberty challenge to New York’s vaccine mandate for health care workers. All of former President Donald Trump’s appointees to the Supreme Court appear to have agreed with the liberal justices to reject the case, allowing the mandate to stand; only Thomas and fellow conservative Justice Samuel Alito are listed as dissenting from the decision.
In his dissent, Thomas summarized the dispute as the petitioners “object[ing] on religious grounds to all available COVID–19 vaccines because they were developed using cell lines derived from aborted children.”
That line became a focal point for mockery by several media outlets. Some, such as Politico, Business Insider, and NBC News, suggested that Thomas was promoting misinformation or “misleading” claims (NBC says Thomas “expressed support Thursday for a debunked claim that all Covid vaccines are made
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