To not want to see a dead fetus!!!

[coffeetofunction]

I don't know if it's just me being sensitive but I went on Facebook this morning & a friend had posted a picture of a dead fetus, with a slogan saying "say no to abortions" & asking people to say a prayer!!

I personally don't want to see that image due to a late miscarriage I had but I also feel there are millions of women that have taken the hard step to terminate a pregnancy that also do not need to see this!!

I reported the post & Facebook have messaged me to say it is not inappropriate!!

AIBU to think this image is inappropriate regardless of people's personal opinions?

I de friended someone who shared a picture like this. It upset me for days. Luckily she's just an ex work colleague who lives in a different town because I don't want to see her again.

These images are just manufactured to further the poster's agenda, usually religious.

I worked in paediatric pathology for a number of years, dealing with miscarriages & terminations, and these pictures are not what it actually looks like. Believe me, I've seen thousands over the years & put them all in little individual cardboard boxes/coffins. They're just manufactured to be emotive.

Zebra is there any proof on the internet that the photos are manufactured? If so then the OP could post that link in response to her friend's pic.

F.b are useless. When i was still using it a picture of a ladies do dah appeared on my news feed I reported it and was told it was fine

I believe there is a video clip floating around of a prolife group admitting in congress or some other such place that they use reborn dolls and craft materials

Makes you sick, doesn't it?

I remember during one boring meeting at work, our Boss - male, scientist and catholic suddenly went on an anti abortion rant. I actually could not be bothered to call him out on it (was drained by the tedium of the meeting) but there where three women there including me - any or all of us could have had on or more. None of his bloody business and had nothing to do with any of his projects, ffs.

I saw this yesterday. I have had 3 mcs and a termination and i dont want to see it either

I still think there's two issues here.
One issue is the right to publish photographs, albeit unpleasant ones. I don't want to live in a world where only pleasant, non-upsetting images can ever be published. Almost all news stories would have to be banned. Slightly tangential to this is the issue of whether images are faked. Obviously I cannot comment on this particular image, I've never seen it and am unsure I want to, and I don't know its origin. Of dead foetuses, as well as of any other subject, some images are real, some are faked. Publishing faked images shows a lack of integrity that brings disbelief to one's entire argument. Yet the disbelief itself might be unmerited: the argument might be true even if the photographs are not. The trouble is, human beings do react very powerfully to visual images without thinking things through. The only solution is to be very careful about how one reacts to a photograph, and how, and why.
A second issue is the right not to see upsetting images if one does not want to. I can decide whether to switch on a news channel or not. If I think images on the news might upset me, I can decide not to view coverage of the war in Syria. Context is all here, and shoving an image of a dead fetus in someone's face without warning when they think they're logging on to learn how their friend got on at a job interview, or what happened at their cousin's birthday party, is not friendly behaviour, and shows the need to pick one's "friends" carefully.