MY THOUGHTS ON THE ABORTION RIGHT  (WHEN THE GP ASKS YOU that powerful question, "DO YOU WANT TO KEEP IT?".

It was after my trip from Nigeria in 2014 that it dawned on me that I was pregnant..., during the trip everyone of those women gifted  with "inner eyes" that saw me asked the same question? Are You pregnant? Those that didn’t feel close enough to be that bold offered their congratulatory wishes while some others went straight up to give me pregnancy advise... you know the old wife pregnancy advise about how I was not supposed to wear jeans or bend over etc? Any ways, having been living in separate countries with my husband, I didn’t for the life of me think I could be pregnant, after all, we only had intimacy during the honeymoon and that’s way over two months, so did I suddenly fall ‘obvious pregnant’ within this few days of my return that

everyone kept giving me all of these compliments? I succumbed to the pressure (after all I am only Human) and did a Urine test but still doubted my result.

Fast forward to my return to England, I made appointment with my GP Surgery to confirm my earlier urine test and the tales of the old wives.

Despite my excitement about the result of the test the GP asked me a very interesting and unusual question; “do you want to keep it?” unusual because of my cultural orientation... in Nigeria when you’re married and pregnant it can only mean one thing, you’re keeping it. It took a while before I recovered from the shocking question, Hell yea I want to want to keep it. But curiously I asked her what other options I had, (that’s after the realisation that advance in technology could actually mean someone else carrying the pregnancy for me hit me). She went on to explain my rights. I could decide to terminate it, a lot of people don’t understand how powerful that question is but it also essentially rips the unborn baby all it’s own power! Left at the mercy of the ADULT!

As I watch some advocate chant about women right being a sole right to decide what she should do about unwanted pregnancy following the recent ban of  Abortion in the State of Alabama in the USA, I can’t help but recall my experience and how easy it is for them to talk about rights when in the same sentence they’re stripping another of their own primary rights- right to life!

I don’t wanna go spiritual but for those saying fetus ain’t human yet just remember that when a baby is born and sex is assigned it’s not really because their genitalia and sex organs are same as that of an adult, but should I fill out a form that requires gender definition I’d write “Female” just like a few seconds old baby.

Fetus today, a person tomorrow! That’s the path that led us all here. Don’t become so powerful that you strip others of their powers- leaving them powerless. That’s what abortion does! Let that sink in for a moment.

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