A July 10 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a syringe being held above a baby.
"If (vaccines) are truly safe, then how is it that the Supreme Court declared them unavoidably unsafe?" reads the post.
The post was liked more than 1,100 times in two days.
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The phrase "unavoidably unsafe" appears multiple times in a Supreme Court opinion from 2011. However, the phrase is not used to declare all vaccines "unavoidably unsafe," as the post claims. Instead, it's being used as part of a legal argument and is a reference to a specific passage in a legal publication.
In 2011, the Supreme Court released its decision in a case called Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, ruling a federal law does not allow vaccine manufacturers to be held liable by people seeking compensation for injuries caused by vaccine side effects.
The case in question began when, in 2005, the parents of a girl who suffered seizures and permanent brain damage after receiving a diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine sued the vaccine's manufacturer, arguing "defective design" of the vaccine caused their daughter's disabilities.
But, with a 6-2 vote, the Supreme Court sided with the manufacturer, deciding the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act "preempts all design-defect...
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