Facebook vs A Mother’s Unconditional Love

Have you ever had Facebook admins remove anything you posted because it was deemed inappropriate? I haven’t, but I imagine you would have to post something truly inappropriate to get it removed since Facebook is such a chill website. This has happened to Heather Walker; a mother who gave birth to Grayson James Walker, a baby boy who only lived for eight hours. Grayson was born with a rare neural tube defect called Anencephaly which causes him to be born with parts of his brain and skull missing. Before any of you look up images of Anencephaly, I am going to warn you that the images are NSFW and include images of babies and fetuses with their brain tissue exposed.

 

Perhaps this is what happened to Heather Walker who contacted the non-profit organization “Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep” who had a photographer come in to record the day’s events. She then posted the pictures on her Facebook, some of which include little Grayson James Walker with his hat off. Shortly after she posted the pictures, they were removed by an admin and when she posted them again; her account was deleted off the site. After reading Facebook’s page on community standards I find it very hard to find where an album of a couple’s unconditional love for their dying child fits in the following list.

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