Various social media sites have come under fire for rejecting photos of women breastfeeding their children, and the censorship seems to have reached a new level as a photo of a sick baby was rejected from Facebook because it was “too graphic”.
 
Hudson Bond was born on July 18th, and a week later it was discovered that he would need a heart transplant to survive. For now, he is hooked up to an artificial pump.
 
His dad Kevin set up a Facebook page to raise awareness and hopefully money for his little boy’s medical bills, which are costing $75,000. However, when he tried to pay $20 to boost the post, meaning more people would see it, Facebook refused as the picture was “scary, gory or sensational, and evokes a negative response.”
 
 
The North Karolina dad opened up about how this made him feel: “I was really hurt actually. I mean I kind of cried. He’s my son, I love him. And to have someone reject a picture … [of] my beautiful son lying in a hospital bed needing help - that really cut me.
 
“We love our son, we just want to share his story and raise awareness for kids like him and to see that request denied is hard considering some of the other garbage you see on that page.”
 
If you would like to donate to Hudson’s medical bills, you can do so here.

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