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Facebook is letting expectant parents add their unborn children to their personal profiles.
Among the regular family options the profile now allows the option “Expected: Child” and can even add a name and the expected date of birth.
A Facebook spokesperson said, “Facebook started providing the option to add an ‘Expected: Child’ as a way for users to more accurately express their identity.”
Previously, parents wanting to announce their unborn children on Facebook had to create a new profile for their unborn child, breaking the social network’s rules which state all users of Facebook must be at least be aged 13.
President of American pro-life group “Focus on Family,” Jim Daley welcomes the addition, saying it conveys the unborn child is a person.
“Many abortion-rights advocates would like for us to believe that a preborn baby is nothing more than a blob of tissue,” Daly stated.
“[W]hile it would be naïve to suggest that this minor development within social media is akin to a game changer, it is not insignificant,” he stressed.
“By making this policy change to their profile settings, Facebook executives were not intentionally making a pro-life statement, but they’ve inadvertently done just that.”
“There is something curious about a culture that increasingly recognises the innate humanity of preborn life, but whose highest court refuses to acknowledge this truth, even when many people – including Mark Zuckerburg (sic) – confirm the reality of it.”
A Facebook executive said the company was always testing new features.
In February Facebook began allowing users a broader range of ‘relationship status’ to include both a civil union and a domestic partnership.
Sources:
- Christian Post
- CNN
- Daily Mail
- Image: Facebook
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