Facebook adds “I’m expecting” option
Daily Mail reports today:
Facebook users can now list that they are expecting a child on their profile – complete with due date and chosen name.
Users of the social networking site have been able to add family members’ to their accounts since December 2010.
But new changes to the site mean they can also add an ‘Expected: child’ field to their page to let others know their baby news.
Previously, parents had to create a new profile for their unborn baby breaking Facebook rules which state all users much be at least 13 years of age.
The new option now lets users prominently display their momentous news without using a separate page.
Neat that fathers of preborns may add the exciting news as well.
Although I’m not “expecting” to see an “I’m aborting” option ever offered. Wonder why?
[HT: Heroic News]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Maybe they can unfriend if they decided to abort.
“Although I’m not “expecting” to see an “I’m aborting” option ever offered. Wonder why?” – that would be a commercial decision. Most pro-choice people wouldn’t care too much if the feature was available or not. And they’re hardly likely to get all activist about it. Yet the self-appointed societal arbiters of the anti-choice movement would quite likely organise a boycott of facebook if they added such a feature.
Maybe they would consider it after they’ve added options such as ‘I’m having a heart transplant’, ‘I’m dealing with cancer’ or ‘I’m having a hip replacement’. That could actually be good, it might raise awareness and therefore donations to medical research for those conditions.
Which raises a thought. Given the scientific advances we are witnessing, how long might it be before ‘new life’ can be created from someones rib? Sounds familiar. Which raises another thought. Maybe ‘creation’ on earth was just a bit of terraforming by an advanced alien species?
Maybe they should word it as “un-expecting”.
Ah. So abortion is just like any other medical procedure, huh Reality?
And yet another religion-obsessed comment from a pro-choicer on a thread where no religion had even been mentioned. Interesting.
//Reality: “Although I’m not “expecting” to see an “I’m aborting” option ever offered. Wonder why?” – that would be a commercial decision. Most pro-choice people wouldn’t care too much if the feature was available or not. And they’re hardly likely to get all activist about it. Yet the self-appointed societal arbiters of the anti-choice movement would quite likely organise a boycott of facebook if they added such a feature.
Maybe they would consider it after they’ve added options such as ‘I’m having a heart transplant’, ‘I’m dealing with cancer’ or ‘I’m having a hip replacement’. That could actually be good, it might raise awareness and therefore donations to medical research for those conditions.
Which raises a thought. Given the scientific advances we are witnessing, how long might it be before ‘new life’ can be created from someones rib? Sounds familiar. Which raises another thought. Maybe ‘creation’ on earth was just a bit of terraforming by an advanced alien species?//
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First: It’s “organize” … If you are going to insult us at least do it correctly. :)
Second: Read what Kel said. It all applies.
Third: You spoke about scientific advances in the same rant as comparing an abortion to getting an organ transplant, not sure if you are being contradicting on purpose to use sarcasm or if you are just trolling. I guess you should tell women who miscarry that are mourning this analogy of yours, say it with a smile too…
Fourth: Read Kel’s comment again.
Fifth: Your rant really made about as much sense to someone with any sort of education as someone trying to nail jello to a tree.
Sixth: Read Kel’s comment. It cracks you up the third time, unless you are the one she/he is referring too of course. ;)
Seventh and last: Not sure if your user name “Reality” is supposed to be an oxymoron to your posts or if you are just obsessed with Jill’s blog and…… Trolling.
That is all, heading out of town now so…Argue amongst yourselves now. :)
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Yep Kel, it is.
Actually it really was just a thought. When I thought about hip replacement sugery I thought about the section of bone being removed which led to contemplating the constituent elements of bone which brought to mind what geneticists are doing which made the rib analogy come to mind because of the whole Eve from Adam’s rib thing.
It wasn’t intended as a ‘religion-obsessed comment’. Did you not note that it ultimately lead me to contemplating terraforming?
Sorry J.C, I mix American english with correct english so some words can have ‘s’ or ‘z’. Compared to some of the spelling and grammar demonstrated here it’s hardly a major crime.
The rest of your comment doesn’t really make much sense. I just gave a potential reason as to why facebook wouldn’t add such a feature and then mused on some other possibilities which the idea brought to mind. You don’t have to agree. You don’t have to like it. It was just gentle musing, how you can call it a ‘rant’ is beyond me.
Yep Kel, it is.
I see. So… you frequent a message board about a highly politicized, highly polarizing issue – abortion – because it’s no different in essence than a lifesaving heart transplant.
Uh huh.
Well yes. And that’s how my responses are couched. It’s politicized and polarizing because you want everyone to conform to your ideals. I offer an alternative viewpoint and also redress some of the false, exaggerated and misleading claims because people who may visit with an open mind require both those things to make an informed decision.
I don’t have a problem with you hating abortion and letting people know. But since you have the choice to not have one, others should have the choice to do so if they wish.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I’m off to dabble in a little hedonism, oh, and to run an artisan workshop for some people with mental health issues. The stuff bipolar people can produce is amazing!
Reality: “Maybe ‘creation’ on earth was just a bit of terraforming by an advanced alien species?”
Riiiiiight. ”The alien of the gaps.” ;-)
As for Facebook, I hope Google Plus kicks their a$$.
There WON’T be an “I’m aborting” option because of the very way the wording on the notice is: “Expected Child” and “Unborn Baby”. Both terms scream “wantedness” by the parent(s)…so of course using these terms is an acknowldgement by the parents that they are indeed carrying a PERSON…something WE ALL KNOW pro-aborts LOATHE.
Lets face it: Abortion is still a dirty little secret. It gets negative reaction from people and no matter how “pro-choice” people claim to be, when it comes to publicly posting THEIR “choice” they’re going to catch flack from those who read it.
God forbid their FB “friends” find out they’re going to pay a “doctor” to kill their child.
That’s just a litttttttttle tooooo creepy, now isn’t it!
JC – You are hardly one to be commenting on anything. You call yourself a pro-life educator when you are nothing more than an anti-woman activist with an opinion. So what if you can put you are expecting on facebook? Anti-choicers always seem to take this kind of thing as some sort of victory. LOL. I assure you it’s not.
Mike–Abortion is not a “dirty little secret” it’s a medical procedure. A needed medical procedure. What you anti-choicers can’t seem to understand is that life isn’t all black and white. There are many gray areas and that’s where abortions come in. Not all babies are born into a happy, loving family. Not all pregnancies are desired or wanted. Get over it. Unless you are willing to take in every single one of these pregnancies then you need to keep your nose out of it. I’ve aborted. I’m not ashamed. It’s not a dirty little secret. My friends and family all know about my decison and they are totally okay with it because it was my decision. Get off of your high horses already.
rasqual,
I don’t think Reality was far wrong. Perhaps an advanced alien species – the Family called Elohim – did terraform the Earth. The gap theory, as I believe you were referring to.
Whoa there dragonfly…who is not ashamed of her abortion. Is that the name on your birth certificate? No, I didn’t think so.
Pro-lifers aren’t ‘anti-choice’. They are very pro-choice, in fact. They are all for women to choose, their religion, their husbands, their way of life, whether or not to fall pregnant and if they do and don’t want the child, to choose life for their child. The choices women can make for themselves is endless. Where you are being confused is that you are trying to soften your side of the argument by calling it pro-choice. It seems as though you are not pro-choice. At best, you are ‘pro-abortion’.
…and you argue like a true ‘only know half the story’ pro-abort, too. In a textbook fashion: ” Not all babies are born into a happy, loving family. Not all pregnancies are desired or wanted. Get over it. Unless you are willing to take in every single one of these pregnancies then you need to keep your nose out of it”. If that was the strongest argument for abortion dragonfly, then us pro-lifers would have won the fight already.
As for “I’ve aborted. I’m not ashamed. It’s not a dirty little secret. My friends and family all know about my decison and they are totally okay with it because it was my decision”…give it time. Maybe you might find a change within your heart if you knew the truth about abortion, or if you took some time to see the view from the pro-life side of the fence.
Me thinks you won’t, well not for a while, anyway. But my hope for you is that you do. In the meantime, ”Get off of your high horses already”!
JC – I wonder if dragonfly (who isn’t ashamed but hides her name) knows that the original feminists were very anti-abortion, and that it has only been since the abortion industry began using feminisim as a defence that the two have been connected? I wonder… http://www.feministsforlife.org/
Oh, and Reality? What is your rebuttal for non-religious pro-lifers? Keep it intellegent.
oh hide behind ‘dragonfly’ lol. I will continue to help women while you rant about it, but good to know I am making waves. ;) nini all, I’ll look forward to the next article, Jill is genius <3
Who posts their full name on the net for trolls to harass them? So glad u all attack about a name to avoid real issues.
We didn’t avoid the issue…or did you avoid reading where it was addressed? If I was arguing against the truth, I guess that I’d avoid wanting to read anything about it, too.
Troll? Takes one to know one, doesn’t it?
Night night!
What you anti-choicers can’t seem to understand is that life isn’t all black and white. There are many gray areas and that’s where abortions come in.
You know, I’ve noticed that when somebody starts waffling off about “shades of gray,” they’re usually trying to convince you that something is okay when you know that it’s wrong.
I don’t think anyone needs to convice theirselves that abortion is okay because it is. If a woman makes that choice then that is okay. You have no idea what is going on in her life to cause her to abort. You all seem to think you know these women and their decisions. It is very arrogant of you. Oh and JC you should research real ectopic pregnancy facts instead of posting your idea of “facts”. Oh and a miscarriage is a form of abortion. if you had any sort of medical knowledge you would know that.
I just don’t understand how any one’s medical decisions are any of your business. Keep your nose out of my uterus and get a life.
If it were so okay, you wouldn’t be classifying it as a “gray” action. Gray means that it is, in some sense, not okay. That the action being discussed is–in the very best and most ideal circumstances–not completely a good one. And that is where you, in your own words, classified abortion.
If I saw my neighbor abusing their child in the privacy of their own home, and if it would never effect me in any way, I would still call the police. And would probably attempt to personally intervene in any way I believed would be helpful prior to the police arrival. Because harming an innocent human being is wrong. A “medical decision” that results in the death of an innocent human being is wrong. Unjustly killing an innocent human being is wrong. And when something is unjust, it’s everybody’s business.
Or, as Martin Luther King put it, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
I’m sorry that you fail to see what I mean by black and white world. I live in reality. I know that not every pregnancy is wanted, healthy or can be brought to term. I choose to let a woman make her own decision because it is her life and I am not so arrogant that I think I know what is better for her. It seems that lifers tend to see the world with blinders on. You don’t see the heartbreak of a wanted pregnancy ending because of anencephaly or pre-eclampsia. You all don’t care about that and that is what is wrong with this world today. Too many self righteous people who think they know what is best for everyone else.
I know exactly what you mean. You are obviously not putting very much thought into understanding what I mean, nor have you gone beyond speaking in slogans. And you drag your unsubstantiated slogans into a “what is wrong with the world today” generalization, thus vilifying me by making me (in your mind) an agent of evil, and vindicating (in your mind) your own position beyond the point of question.
Clearly you are not an individual who is willing to genuinely engage on this issue. Good day.
Dragonfly. How do you know I don’t see pregnancies end in anencephaly or pre-eclampsia? You’ve assumed that all pro-lifers walk around with blinkers on. You’re trying to attack the character of pro-lifers as opposed to sticking to the argument. I’m sorry you argue that way.
I am sorry that you’ve been caught up in the pro-abortion argument. I’m sorry that the abortion industry has lied to you, telling you that killing their unborn is a right that parents have. I’m sorry that while they have taught you about grey areas and such, they tell you that abortions are safer than carrying a pregnancy to term. I’m sorry that they misguide you into thinking that elective abortions, natural abortions (miscarriages) and ectopic pregnancies are one and the same. I’m sorry they hide the truth about fetal development and pain and the darkness and possibility of after effects of abortion on parents and family. I’m sorry that they teach you to assume pro-lifers motivation and assume that they are all ignorant to ‘real world’ issues, just as I am sorry that you teach you to say things like ‘if you aren’t going to take in every unwanted child then keep your nose out of it’. I’m sorry that they teach you to appeal to the hard cases to justify abortion for everyone and every circumstance. I’m sorry that they tell you thinks like abortion prevents a child from a violent upbringing, when homes touched by abortion are more prone to violence after the fact many years down the track. I’m sorry that they tell you that anyone who tells you anything to the contrary, or that people who speak up for the unborn are attacking your feminine rights. I’m sorry that governments see it a cheaper option to fund abortion mills than a pregnancy crisis centre. I’m sorry that when you (like the flood of abortion mill owners, workers and activists) work out that they’ve been working on the wrong side of the fence that that the abortion industry wipes them like a dirty backside. I’m sorry that you probably will never read what I just wrote.
…and I am very sorry that all the while the abortion industry is making an absolute fortune at your expense.
I’m thankful, though, that there is an arrogant, blinkered, selfish pro-lifer somewhere that is working hard at a support system for you when you discover that you’ve been lied to by the abortion industry. That is genuinely my wish for you.
Tracey, my July 29th 10:32pm comment is just as relevant for non-religious anti-choicers.
rasqual, I don’t see much difference between a ‘god of the gaps’ theory and an ‘aliens of the gaps’ theory. I don’t find Erich von Daniken’s books much less convincing than the bible.
Reality, yes it does. I should have read that a bit better.
But please don’t call me anti-choice. The only difference between the choices you and I think should be made available is the choice of abortion (that term being used for the elective kind). That makes your argument a pro-abortion one and mine an anti-abortion or pro-life one. Calling someone like me anti-choice is inaccurate; a diversion; a smoke screen.
Those who are anti-abortion like myself wouldn’t involve themselves in the argument if the unborn didn’t need a voice for them. I have heaps of other stuff to do with my time but when such a blatent injustice exists, I feel compelled to act. Some people prefer to act for other wordly injustices, some the injustices forced upon the unborn.
Tracey, the main choices a pregnant woman has are to either complete gestation and keep the child which is born, complete gestation and adopt out the child which is born, or terminate the pregnancy via abortion. I support all three therefore I am pro-choice. You do not support all three therefore you are not pro-choice. Ergo, you are anti-choice.
Come on, Reality. I support two of the choices, you support three; the only difference being abortion. You know as well as I that the difference is abortion, not choice.
I see where you are coming from, though. If I were an advocate for abortion, I’d probably want to sugar-coat the term with a nicer one like ‘pro-choice’ too.
You deserve full points for determination and diversion, though.
I am not an advocate for abortion. I am an advocate for choice. I believe that all three scenarios I described are valid options and should be available to all women.
There is no ‘diversion’ on my behalf.
Do you or do you not support women having the right to choose to have an abortion?
I support the right for women to choose the first two options you listed but not the third (being abortion). I am anti-abortion.
Do you or do you not support women having the right to choose to have an abortion? If the answer is ‘yes’, you’d be pro-abortion. You seem to not like that tag very much. Aren’t you proud to be ‘pro-abortion’? I mean, you consider it to be a fair enough thing for something to choose, don’t you?
Your argument makes as much sense as me saying that I like the dogs, cats and mice as pets but not birds and you calling me ‘anti-animal’ as opposed to ‘anti-bird’. Just because I might not like birds (and I do, I’m just using it as an example) doesn’t mean I don’t like animals. It means that I don’t like that KIND of animal. Not liking abortion does not mean I don’t like choice, it means that I don’t like that KIND of choice.
You support the right for women to choose the first two options listed but not the third (being abortion). You are anti-choice.
If I was purely ‘pro-abortion’ I would be touting it as the best of the choices. I don’t. At best it is equal. Therefore I am pro-choice. And I am proud to be. And I’m quite happy to state that I am pro-choice, with one of those choices being abortion. And I believe that women should have the right to choose abortion. I support all three choices. I have no problem with saying that I support abortion as one of the available choices.
Nice attempt at diversion. Would you tell someone they couldn’t have a pet bird because you don’t like birds? If you did then you’d again be anti-choice, rather than anti-animal.
“I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I’m off to dabble in a little hedonism, oh, and to run an artisan workshop for some people with mental health issues. The stuff bipolar people can produce is amazing!”
by Reality on Jul 29, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Reality,
I know what you mean about the creativity of individuals with bipolar disorder. I still have the beautiful flower drawing an anonymous bipolar patient gave me during my first psychiatric hospitalization (I was in a deep depressive episode). Oh, and you should see some of the pastels and oils drawn by my late aunt who had schizophrenia.
I admire what you do. I, myself work with individuals with developmental disabilities and mental health issues on the weekends :-)
Rachael C., I am amazed by both the stunning bleakness and sometimes sheer darkness that conditions such as bipolar can produce when people are ‘down’ as well as the representations of life and brightness they create in their work when they are ‘up’.
There are many, many people who do much, much more than I do. But I strongly believe in making a contribution if possible, even if only small; as well as continuous learning, either formal or informal.
I applaud your contribution.
Yeah, I’d let someone keep a bird. So long as they didn’t kill it because it was ‘theirs’.
You still make little sense to the sensible, though. But you’ve given me something to chuckle at in the meantime.
“You still make little sense to the sensible, though” – oh there are sooo many other ways I could put that which would more accurately describe the situation.
But have your little ‘trill’ if you want. ;-)
Okay ;)
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Dragonfly:
There are thousands upon thousands of couples waiting for infants of any race and even with mild to moderate health issues. The homes exist for these children.
What is gray about abortion? If it’s just another medical procedure then it’s not gray. Is having your wisdom teeth removed a gray area?
Not all babies are born into a happy, loving family? So what? If it’s better to be dead than poor, why does that only apply to people before we’re born. If you’re really saying that the fetus is not a life, then it doesn’t matter why you kill it (could be b/c you are poor, could be because you would rather go on a shopping spree). The reason wouldn’t matter if it’s not a life. And if it is a life, no reason is sufficient unless it applies to the taking of all life.
CT – yes..waiting for INFANTS. not already born children who may be alittle too old for their liking. where are the homes for these children?
I didn’t say that abortion was a gray area. You all need to learn how to read. I stated that abortion falls into a gray area because there are many reasons that women choose abortion. it’s not as simple as black and white. for some reason you all can’t grasp that. seriously?!
No not all babies are born into a loving happy family. I would much rather a woman have an abortion then murder her child over farmville or because “voices told her too”. so you think a woman would abort to go on a shopping spree? you don’t think too highly of women do you? It’s not a decision that you make overnight. it is a thought out decision that is made in the best interest of the woman carrying the fetus. I respect that.
CT – yes..waiting for INFANTS. not already born children who may be alittle too old for their liking. where are the homes for these children?
Most of those children cannot legally be adopted because parental rights have not been terminated.
I would much rather a woman have an abortion then murder her child over farmville or because “voices told her too”.
Why? The end result is the same, isn’t it? What’s the difference?
It’s not a decision that you make overnight. it is a thought out decision that is made in the best interest of the woman carrying the fetus.
Great, then pro-choicers should have no issues with 24+ hour waiting periods and informed consent so women at least know what they’re signing off on.
so you think a woman would abort to go on a shopping spree? you don’t think too highly of women do you? It’s not a decision that you make overnight. it is a thought out decision that is made in the best interest of the woman carrying the fetus. I respect that
No, I’m saying that if it’s just a medical procedure, then you shouldn’t care what her reason is. You may like one reason better than another, but a woman would be no more justified aborting for poverty than she would be aborting b/c she just damn well felt like it. If there’s nothing wrong w/ abortion then you don’t need to trot out the sob stories that are completely irrelevant. You should be equally willing to respect and defend a woman who aborts b/c she’d rather spend the money on a shopping spree or because she doesn’t want to get fat (I’ve personally heard that one).
CT – yes..waiting for INFANTS. not already born children who may be alittle too old for their liking. where are the homes for these children?
Aside from Kel’s excellent point, not many women give birth to eight-year-olds. Any child who survives to birth and is subsequently placed for adoption would be an infant, at least at the outset.
Exactly Alice and Kel.