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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
FB Vent
My mother's cousin posted a picture of a stillborn baby, saying that abortions shouldn't be legal.
I'm pretty sure my head's going to explode. Or I'm going to alienate yet another family member over Facebook.
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Re: FB Vent
Meh, if I wasn't so anti-DD-ing, I'd delete this. Stupid vent to post to TN. Note to self: don't post late at night.
Hi!
Oh, that's horrible. WT everloving F is wrong with people?
And seriously, I was even more sensitive to that kind of stuff when pregnant.
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The claim was that the baby was actually aborted, but it takes a half-second of thought to realize that it couldn't be true and another five seconds of Googling to confirm it.
I told her that if she wanted to spread propaganda to perpetuate her stance on the issue, she'd be wise to at least use *factual* propaganda. Then another cousin of mine (this one's niece) came in and said that the picture didn't matter, the point was abortion is wrongity wrong wrong (in a lot more words, of course). I countered that the photo does matter and posting such a thing is insensitive and ignorant. I made the case that there could well be a woman who has suffered the tragic loss of stillbirth on that friends list, and she's going to come across that while innocently scrolling her Facebook newsfeed, and how in the hell is that going to make her feel?
That same cousin conceded to my point about the photo. We discussed abortion a bit without getting terribly heated, and finally the discussion ended with acknowledging that there was no way we were going to change each other's mind. The cousin who originally posted the photo never once came back and chimed in on the discussion and this morning simply posted "So... on to another subject... lol".
The cousin who actually engaged in the discussion is one I fought with over vaccinations, too.
Update: The cousin who posted the picture just came in to talk about faith, and she *may* be telling me that my opinions don't count because I don't understand faith (that's a very simplified version). Though I'm not sure.
Please see "head exploding" comment in my OP.