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Several media outlets suggested on Thursday that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas promoted a “refined” conspiracy theory about children expelled for use in developing the Covid vaccine. Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court announced it would not hear a case challenging the New York vaccine order. In 2021, a group of anonymous healthcare workers filed a lawsuit against the state claiming that receiving the vaccine would violate their religious beliefs. The Supreme Court refused to take up the case, but Thomas, along with Judges Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito, issued a dissenting opinion criticizing the decision to ignore the religious exceptions. Thomas included a description of health care workers’ belief that some Covid vaccines were developed using discarded embryonic cells. ABORTION: MEDIA CONTINUES “LIBERTY ATTACK FOR DECADES” ON JUSTICE CLARENS AFTER ROE V. WADE DECISION FILE – Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas delivers a keynote address during a Georgia New Nathan Deal Judicial Center in Atlanta on February 11, 2020. (AP Photo / John Amis, Archive) The petitioners are 16 healthcare workers who have served New York communities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. They are religiously opposed to all available COVID-19 vaccines because they were developed using cell lines derived from children have been expelled, “Thomas wrote. However, many media outlets, from Politico to NBC, cited this statement as Thomas’s own opinion in their headlines, although they later clarified that it referred to the petitioners’ allegations. They further misinterpreted what he wrote and said it was wrong. The Politico report was entitled “Clarence Thomas suggests that vaccines for Covid are developed using cells from ‘discarded children’.” The article was also shared on Politico’s Twitter account. “Clarence Thomas has argued that Covid vaccines come from the cells of ‘aborted children,’” Politico wrote on Twitter. “No Covid vaccine in the United States contains aborted embryonic cells.” A lone protester stands outside the US Supreme Court as he hears arguments against the Biden administration’s nationwide mandate to vaccinate or test COVID-19 in Washington, DC, January 7, 2022. REUTERS / Jonathan Ernst
Axios reported with a mostly similar title: “Clarence Thomas suggests that COVID vaccines are made with cells from ‘excreted children.’ of this story have been updated to note that Thomas was referring to “abortion” cells in his disagreement. “ Despite the titles, the report acknowledged that some vaccines use embryonic cells in research. “Some vaccines have used embryonic cell lines in the early stages of vaccine development, but the end products do not contain embryonic cells. In addition, these embryonic cells came from selective abortions” that took place decades ago, “Axios said. MSNBC and NBC. However, he insisted that the allegation was “claimed”, with MSNBC’s Steve Benen adding that Thomas’ statement further “tarnishes” the court. A person holds a sign during a protest against the vaccination order in view of the possible dismissal of New York employees due to their vaccination regime, Monday, February 7, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo / Yuki Iwamura, Archive) (AP Photo / Yuki Iwamura, Archive) “The credibility of the Supreme Court has already suffered. The more judges publish factual errors, the more the reputation of the court is tarnished,” Benen wrote in an article titled “Clarence Thomas makes discredited claims about the Covid vaccine.” Benen described Thomas’ quote as “unnecessarily incendiary” and said “it is also not true”. The NBC headline read: “Justice Thomas Mentioned Demonstrated Claim that Covid Vaccines Are Made with Cells from ‘Aborted Children’” and wrote: Covid vaccines are made with cells from “expelled children”. children “, before later admitting that Thomas” mentioned the plaintiffs “. The NBC report also explained that the embryonic cell lines were used in vaccine trials. “Pfizer and Moderna used early embryonic cell lines in the development of their Covid vaccine to test the effectiveness of their formulations, as other vaccines have done in the past. The embryonic tissue used in these procedures was derived from selective abortions that “But cells have decades since they have been repeated many times, so none of the original tissue is involved in making modern vaccines,” NBC said. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been under intense attack throughout his tenure since 1991. (Photo by Tassos Katopodis / Getty Images) GOOD MORNING AMERICA FINALLY DELETS A TWITE THAT EXPLAINS JACKSON JUSTICE AS “THE FIRST BLACK JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT” Other journalists have also suggested that Thomas himself claimed that the vaccines were made from discarded fetal tissue. USA Today columnist Michael Stern wrote on Twitter: “Many members of the Democratic Supreme Court have gone to MAGA. They are cut off from the truth and reality. Clarence Thomas just wrote that Covid vaccines are produced by children who have expelled. “ “This man needs help,” wrote journalist Katie Couric. Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali wrote on Twitter, “Awesome, we have a QAnon Supreme Court justice.” CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION Liberal mainstream media figures have often attacked Judge Clarence Thomas for his conservative views since his initial appointment in 1991. Lindsay Kornick is a fellow contributor to Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to [email protected] and Twitter: @lmkornick.