Justice Clarence Thomas backed a disproved notion that all Covid vaccinations are created using cells from “aborted children” in a severely worded dissent on Thursday.
He dissented when the Supreme Court declined to hear a case brought by New York medical professionals who objected to the state’s vaccination law on religious grounds.
Clarence Thomas claimed in a dissenting opinion that Covid vaccines are derived from the cells of “aborted children.”
No Covid vaccines in the U.S. contain the cells of aborted fetuses. https://t.co/13YartfO5Z
— POLITICO (@politico) June 30, 2022
Health care professionals Thomas wrote that the health care workers “object” to the state’s vaccine mandate “on religious grounds to all available COVID–19 vaccines because they were developed using cell lines derived from aborted children.”
As with other vaccines in the past, Pfizer and Moderna tested the efficacy of their Covid formulations using fetal cell lines early in the research process. These procedures made use of fetal tissue from decades-old elective abortions. However, the cells have now multiplied numerous times, thus no original tissue is used in the creation of contemporary vaccines.
Clarence Thomas: The vaccines were developed using the cells of aborted fetuses.
Me: Even if that's true, think of it as donating corneas, or liver, or even a heart.
Clarence Thomas: I prefer to think of it as murder committed by liberal snowflakes.— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 30, 2022
Therefore, it is untrue that Covid vaccines are made from fetal cell lines or contain any cells from aborted fetuses.
Instead, the vaccinations contain messenger RNA, which is genetic information that tells our cells to produce proteins, which then trains the immune system to combat the coronavirus. Along with salt, sugar, and a few other components that assist stabilize the other ingredients, they also contain fatty compounds called lipids that aid RNA in crossing our cell membranes.
None of the Covid-19 vaccines in the United States contain the cells of aborted fetuses. Cells obtained from elective abortions decades ago were used in testing #ImpeachThomas
Thomas claims Covid vaccines are derived from the cells of ‘aborted children’.https://t.co/SyUDrxA6A7
— JFKinAZ – FOCUS your ANGER into #VOTING! (@JFKinAZ) June 30, 2022
Lawyers for New York also pointed out that the rubella vaccination was tested using laboratory-grown stem cells, which are descended from cells taken from a fetus nearly 50 years ago.
Thomas referenced the refuted assertion despite writing for the three dissenters, including Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch.
On Thursday, the majority of the justices declined to take up the legal challenge launched by medical professionals who disagree with the state’s vaccine mandate for ethical reasons.
Clarence Thomas: “covid vaccines are made from aborted fetuses.”
WTAF is going on?
Is this intended to distract from his and Ginni’s role in the insurrection? pic.twitter.com/Kt8nVuyRzX
— TPBlue💔 (@TPBlue4) June 30, 2022
In order to stop the spread of the most recent Covid version, the rule was first put in place last August, with exceptions allowed for religious or medical grounds. But later on, the religious exception was taken away. Roman Catholic and Democrat Governor of New York Kathy Hochul asserted that the pope and other religious figures were urging people to get immunized and that she was not aware of any “sanctioned religious objection from any organized religion” and that religious leaders including the pope were encouraging people to get vaccinated.
When fetal cell lines were used in the testing, development, or production of Covid vaccines, sixteen healthcare professionals filed a lawsuit, claiming that this violated their religious beliefs. They claimed that because the law permitted people who were not immunized to work, it infringed upon their right to freedom of religion.
In an opinion on Thursday, Clarence Thomas falsely claimed that Covid-19 vaccines were developed using the cells of “aborted children.”
None of the Covid-19 vaccines in the United States contain the cells of aborted fetuses. https://t.co/zlM2IHid8x
— Zack Stanton (@zackstanton) June 30, 2022
Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas all argued in a letter on Thursday that the case ought to have been heard by the court. According to Thomas, there is still ambiguity around laws like New York’s that do not allow for religious exemptions, and the court ought to have accepted the issue sooner rather than later to prevent future ambiguity.
State attorneys argued that the Covid requirement was comparable to long-standing laws requiring vaccinations for measles and rubella for healthcare workers. Only medical reasons are permitted for exemptions from those standards. In their written comments, they claimed that“The presence of a single, limited medical exemption to a vaccine requirement does not require the State to provide a blanket religious exemption from vaccination,” they said in their written submissions.
