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Facebook allows unborn children in family

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.

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