There are some news stories that prompt outrage from me in mere milliseconds. Okay most do. But obviously when I read something that strikes me at a personal level it creates a different level of outrage. It is the kind of thing that in the old days would make me shout, but now that I am so mature I just write.
NBC Chicago reports
A suburban Chicago family, overwhelmed by medical bills from their infant son who was born prematurely, alleges the popular crowdfunding website GoFundMe did not make their donation page available to the public because the photo of their ill baby was deemed offensive.
According to the family, Baby Jacob’s fundraising page was originally only accessible to those who had a direct link, making it difficult to raise the needed funds to help offset the mounting medical expenses that come with his condition.
When the organizer of the page, a close family friend, contacted GoFundMe, they claim the popular crowdfunding site told them the photo of the young boy was “graphic” and may be deemed offensive to some viewers.
“They responded right away and said, ‘Unfortunately, we never published it because your son’s image [was] too graphic and too inappropriate for our viewers to look at,” said Jacob’s mother Christina Hinks.
Here’s a copy of the pic
Not only does reading this make me feel angry, but it brings back so much emotion from the time my own premature baby was born. That time when none of the photos of my little boy would have made the cut on the pages of GoFundMe because they were very graphic. If by “graphic” you mean they didn’t look like the photos you see in the baby magazines or the nappy ads.
There were none of the romantic baby pictures He didn’t look like your stereotypical newborn baby because he wasn’t. He was critically ill and the machinery that covered his beautiful face and tiny arms kept him alive. It didn’t make him scary or a monster or threatening or repulsive to look at – it made him special and vulnerable and it made us so grateful every single day for the technology that kept him alive.
This was one of the first photos I took of my baby.
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Here’s another
This was his truth. His life. Our reality He was sick. It may be hard to look at but quite frankly I don’t care. This is my son and I am proud of every single one of those days that he fought to stay with us.
I sincerely hope Baby Jacob get to feel the same way.
It’s sad that we can be mindlessly exposed to hyper sexualised images, violence and hyper sexualised violence non stop, but sick babies and breastfeeding boobs or the scars of survivors of cancer etc can be deemed offensive. Sigh.
I seriously hope that GoFundMe alter their policy because it just seems wrong and little pencil IS beautiful and he’s a miracle baby, who wouldn’t want to celebrate that or help to try to save a child’s life if they felt so called to do so!
Totally agree Lana. All babies are beautiful and their lives should be celebrated. My husband was 11 weeks premature and it’s so sad for his Mum those first few weeks of his precious life she wasn’t able to hold him and they didn’t think he would survive. I have 2 girls myself and can’t begin to imagine how hard that must be for any parent to go through.