Natalie Weaver is a mother who is INCREDIBLY outspoken about her child’s disability.
People w/ facial deformities experience a lot of cruelty.
The Hate & Stares I received when Sophia was a baby were painful & made me hide away for 7yrs.
I decided over a year ago to stand up & fight against this!
I will not be silenced by hate! Thank you for supporting us! pic.twitter.com/oJr2FgUGAL
— Natalie Weaver (@Nataliew1020) January 21, 2018
She has very liberal opinions on healthcare… and on just about everything else…but there is NO doubt that she’s a loving and devoted mother. So lets put our political differences aside for a moment.
I think we can ALL agree that THIS is horrific:
” src=”https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.3/svg/2757.svg”>Please HELP me & REPORT this tweet
” src=”https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.3/svg/2757.svg”>This person is still using my 9 yr old daughters image as the poster child to abort bc she’s disabled.
” src=”https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.3/svg/2757.svg”>Any lawyers out there who can help me take legal action?
Ps…you don’t pay for my child. She has prv insurance & we pay taxes https://t.co/xuwMKmqNSt
— Natalie Weaver (@Nataliew1020) January 21, 2018
While the original post is no longer available, this was part of it:
It read:
“It is okay to think that every child matters however a lot of them do not hence the amnio test which should be a mandatory test and if it proves negative and the woman does not want to abort then all bills accrued after that is on her and the father.”
Wow.
REGARDLESS of how you personally feel about abortion… NO ONE should be ok with an organization using a picture of someone else’s child as an example of someone who should have been aborted. That’s just sick.
According to Fox News:
Disability advocate Natalie Weaver has slammed Twitter for not promptly clamping down on an account that used an image of her severely disabled child in a pro-abortion tweet.
”Just received an email that Twitter doesn’t think a person using my child’s image as the poster child to ABORT & to weed out all the “defectives” in utero is a violation. Why? Bc they won’t recognize hate toward ppl w/ disabilities in their regulations/reports,” Weaver tweeted on Monday. The account was later suspended by Twitter.
@TwitterSupport Just received an email that Twitter doesn’t think a person using my child’s image as the poster child to ABORT & to weed out all the “defectives” in utero is a violation. Why? Bc they won’t recognize hate toward ppl w/ disabilities in their regulations/reports. pic.twitter.com/PQLLEyQhPy
— Natalie Weaver (@Nataliew1020) January 22, 2018
Weaver had reported a tweet by the @OBSIDIANSMOAK account that used an image of her 9-year-old daughter Sophia. “It is okay to think that every child matters however a lot of them do not hence the amnio test which should be a mandatory test and if it proves negative and the woman does not want to abort then all bills accrued after that is on her and the father,” said a post accompanying the tweet.
Wow… that’s one sick piece of sh*t.
How quickly would a conservative get banned from Twitter for posting pictures of a woman who had an abortion?
Just saying…
Anyway, Twitter eventually “made it right.”
Twitter told Fox News on Monday evening that it suspended the account. “When we make a mistake, we work to ensure it’s quickly corrected,” a Twitter spokeswoman explained in a statement emailed to Fox News. “Our team reviewed the report again and suspended the account in accordance with the Twitter Rules.”
Yeah. Only AFTER people were outraged.
Thank you @TwitterSupport & @jack for listening! The account that was using my daughter’s image has been suspended! Thank you to the thousands of people who reported this & supported us! Thank you for taking a stand against hate! pic.twitter.com/77jPFljYPs
— Natalie Weaver (@Nataliew1020) January 22, 2018
The Fox report continues:
Sophia suffers from Rett syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that affects a child’s ability to eat, speak, walk and breathe. She was also born with an unknown syndrome that has caused facial deformities.
Weaver, who is the co-founder of Advocates for Medically Fragile Kids NC, is urging Twitter to tighten its rules regarding hate speech against people with disabilities. “I would like twitter to also add ‘hate towards people with disabilities’ to their violation reporting categories,” she said.
The circulation of Sophia’s image in a pro-abortion tweet has sparked anger from a host of users on Twitter.
As a result of her disabilities, Sophia requires extensive care. “She’s an amazing little girl,” Weaver told Fox News.