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To think 'liking' this photo really is the bloody limit? *distressing*

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slatternlymother · 21/11/2012 14:25

Today, I logged onto FB and a long term friend has 'liked' a photo under the caption of 'like if you are against aborting our baby girls'. The photo is a very clear and graphic photo of a foetus lying on a pink blanket, clearly dead.

I am horrified that this is being allowed to circulate. Can you imagine the distress to a recently bereaved mother? Or a woman who had had to go through an abortion?

Just the other day another friend 'liked' a photo entitled 'like if you wish child abuse didnt exist' coupled with a photo of a horrifically beaten child.

How is this acceptable? AIBU?

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HoldMeCloserTonyDanza · 21/11/2012 17:28

If the baby was pictured wrapped in a pink blanket, you can be pretty sure it's a photo of a much-wanted stillbirth, not a late term abortion.

Which is just awful for the person who took the photo Sad

Ghostsgowoooh · 21/11/2012 17:56

YANBU I have stupid misguided friends who 'like' this sort of thing on facebook all the time. I have threatened to delete anyone who does like this awful stuff, this after one appeared on my fb of someone 'choking' a baby. A man had his hand round a babies neck and appeared to be choking it, the baby appeared blue. I think it was probably photo shopped but the caption was one like == 1 punch to the person chocking the baby. It was sick sick sick.

I really hate fb sometimes.

QuietNinjaTardis · 21/11/2012 18:06

I started a thread about this the other day! It made me cry, I was so angry it had appeared on my news feed. I've deleted and blocked the person who liked it but I kinda wish I'd sent her a angry pm first but too late for that.

slatternlymother · 21/11/2012 18:27

holdme yes I think the baby was lying on a pink blanket, which immediately made me think it was probably a tragic still birth of a much loved and wanted after baby Sad

quietninja I didn't know if I'd be being unreasonable by firing off an angry message to this person (or anyone in future) who did this before deleting them?

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takataka · 21/11/2012 18:41

This makes me very proud of my friends and family. Nothink like this ever appears on my feed Smile

QuietNinjaTardis · 21/11/2012 18:48

I don't think you'd be unreasonable at all. I wish I'd done it. If I see this person in rl and she tries to talk to me she will get a piece of my mind.

Moominsarescary · 21/11/2012 18:56

I had one pop up last year not long after I'd had a mc at 20 weeks, bloody awful

slatternlymother · 21/11/2012 18:57

Oh moomin I am so sorry for your loss Sad

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FreudianLisp · 21/11/2012 20:08

I was just feeling grateful that I've never had anything like this appear on my Facebook page, when I logged on and discovered a picture of someone kicking a baby to death. That's going to haunt me tonight. :-( Apparently 'liking' the photo will show my support for at-risk children. And how, exactly, is this going to make a difference to anyone's life??? Time to defriend the culprit, maybe.

What I also hate are these "Share if you care about cancer/war/abused kids/anything. 90% of people won't share this." posts. As though liking a post will do anything for anyone.

Moominsarescary · 21/11/2012 21:20

Someone I'm friends with has had a picture of her dc's stolen and posted on someone else's profile.

This person is stealing people's baby photos and making racist remarks about them, bloody awful

GrendelsMum · 21/11/2012 21:35

Maybe the OP should contact her friend and let her know that it's probably someone's private photo of their still-born child, and that she should think twice about causing this material to circulate by 'liking' it?

Ghostsgowoooh · 21/11/2012 21:38

I did put on an angry ranty status about the pic I'd seen. I even went as far as calling the people who liked them idiots. Probably unreasonable but it's been a bit better since then. I just wish there was some way of blocking these photos but sadly I don't think there is

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