Parents whose children have died are being attacked on social media

[deanrd]

Parents whose children have died are being attacked on social media.

Her son died. And then anti-vaxers attacked her

Grieving and frightened, just days after her son's death she checked her Facebook page hoping to read messages of comfort from family and friends.

Instead, she found dozens of hateful comments: You're a terrible mother. You killed your child. You deserved what happened to your son. This is all fake - your child doesn't exist.

When a child dies, members of the group sometimes encourage each other to go on that parent's Facebook page. The anti-vaxers then post messages telling the parents they're lying and their child never existed, or that the parent murdered them, or that vaccines killed the child, or some combination of all of those.

Nothing is considered too cruel. Just days after their children died, mothers say anti-vaxers on social media called them whores, the c-word and baby killers.

Rilei Cherry, said her son developed autism as a result of vaccines. "We owe it to our children to truly look at the long term effects of vaccines and be honest about what could happen to our children," she told the CDC committee.

Despite the speakers' concerns, more than a dozen studies have shown that vaccines do not cause autism. The American Academy of Pediatrics says "Vaccines are safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines save lives."

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I don’t believe in harassing anybody, but I could never harass someone who lost a child. That takes some kind of special monster.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

You were highly vaccinated as a child weren't you.

*****CHUCKLE*****

 

[deanrd]

You were highly vaccinated as a child weren't you.

*****CHUCKLE*****

I still get vaccines. Don’t you?

 

[Damaged Eagle]

The flu shot???

*****CHUCKLE*****





Not since last century.

 

[impuretrash]

Dozens of negative comments lost in a sea of tens of thousands of positive ones. Guess which CNN decides to do a story on?

 

[keepitreal]

Parents whose children have died are being attacked on social media.

Her son died. And then anti-vaxers attacked her

Grieving and frightened, just days after her son's death she checked her Facebook page hoping to read messages of comfort from family and friends.

Instead, she found dozens of hateful comments: You're a terrible mother. You killed your child. You deserved what happened to your son. This is all fake - your child doesn't exist.

When a child dies, members of the group sometimes encourage each other to go on that parent's Facebook page. The anti-vaxers then post messages telling the parents they're lying and their child never existed, or that the parent murdered them, or that vaccines killed the child, or some combination of all of those.

Nothing is considered too cruel. Just days after their children died, mothers say anti-vaxers on social media called them whores, the c-word and baby killers.

Rilei Cherry, said her son developed autism as a result of vaccines. "We owe it to our children to truly look at the long term effects of vaccines and be honest about what could happen to our children," she told the CDC committee.

Despite the speakers' concerns, more than a dozen studies have shown that vaccines do not cause autism. The American Academy of Pediatrics says "Vaccines are safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines save lives."

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I don’t believe in harassing anybody, but I could never harass someone who lost a child. That takes some kind of special monster.

Your a fucking retard....
Your presence here is harassing, so,
since you don’t believe in harassing anyone...
GO AWAY ALREADY