Monday, 22 June 2015

Funny thing about abortion

Just think about it, I personally wonder why abortion was made legal in some country, I personally think it's not right. I have seen a lot of girls get pregnant at out wedlock and stuff. It was always cool when you're doing it, right lol But when it backfires, girls go crazy and guys run away. Usually. The funny thing about abortion is that when you ask most girls about it if they can or cannot do an abortion, those girls always tend to go if they got pregnant they would keep the baby and stuff. If only it was that easy, won't we all keep it.

I have girls who went all "I will never do an abortion, if I ever get pregnant ganant I'd keep the baby" and then when they get pregnant the story changes it goes "how will I face my parents, oh the Shame oh the stigma" and the lament about it until at the end go I can't keep this baby and get rid of it. Personally am totally anti-abortion all the way but I usually think to myself if I ever get a girl pregnant, especially a girl I don't like would I be brave enough to keep the baby? Well I often tell myself I would. But the truth is until you're actually faced with that kind of decision, you can't say actually what you'd do.

I really respect girls who get pregnant and had the boldness to face it all and not take the easy way out. It not easy to have an abortion, to actually kill something that's alive, no be beans oooo. As I dey Sef I fit kill chicken. Abortion is not easy o, if you know someone who has done it, ask them. From hear say, I hear it like super painful, maybe labour-pain painful I not sure, and you run the risk of either losing your life or never giving birth again, like if the doctor dey crazy, he will just up root your womb completely. Abortion is so illegal in his country that for even giving someone an address to get it done, you could be arrested. I have an idiot friend who actually feel victim of his from his stupidity and no be him even give the girl belle oo, imagine looking for such wahala.

Anyway doing an abortion takes serious balls but keeping a baby out of wedlock, especially when the guy Denys it or worse runs away to cotonuo, changes his identity and starts selling socks, three for fifty naira to avoid been a dad, is even harder and takes bigger balls. I respect girls who don't do an abortion but frankly I respect girls who don't even get pregnant at all even more. It really difficult to decide to keep a baby even you didn't want. Especially knowing that it would affect everything in your life, you might either have to stop school or go to school heavy making it difficult and you should consider the stigma too. We can trust Nigerians to do that to you. Especially if you're a girl nobody expected would get pregnant. Then all those busy bodies would go "eh so this girl is like this all this while and she was pretending to be good. God Don catch am" No be God catch her, so to speak she was just unfortunate.

Guys Sef, most guys, not excluding me are so reckless. They don't even think about it sometimes. Because no be you go carry the belle Shey? A friend once told me if guys were made to carry the first pregnancy and experience labour and the whole nine months ish, they would never have sex again talk less of an unprotected one. I remember my younger days, I had a girlfriend whom I tot got pregnant for me. I no go lie o, fear catch me. I was so scared like I was thinking to myself I was ready to go married neither was I ready to have a kid. It would ruin my plans for life.

I went home, that was before she got it confirmed, and I was thinking, if she really was pregnant what would I do? Would I have the balls to keep the baby. Though what if she decided she didn't want it. I was so concerned and it was also during exam time. What would happen if she was, I'd be devastated true but I said I'd keep the baby. Then, that day, that was the day before she took the test. I was in my bathroom, I sat on the toilet bowl and prayed for the first time in months and I wasn't close to God then. I said to him "God, if this girl is not pregnant, I would go to church everyday and I would change. I would never look at women again in my life" that was the prayer I made is what fear can cause?

Well the next day she had the test and called me to come over. I was like I don die, this girl Don get belle, my life is over. When I got there, she was like she was pregnant. My heart just cut. Then she said she was two months pregnant and I had only known her for one month. I no go lie o, I had never been so relived in my life. I was like I guess god did not abandoned me, turns out her ex-boyfriend was the father and she had been pregnant the whole time I knew her. Crazy right? Well the point is that she was really brave about the whole thing, though she cried like everyday. True I was relieved but I felt such pity for her to be so unfortunate. It wasn't her fault it was life. I tried to encourage her not to get rid of it, and was there for her the whole time. Not as a boyfriend though but as a friend. And she was really been so brave about it. The only problem was that she then decided to get rid of the baby behind my back and lied to me that a doctor told her something was wrong with the baby and she had to get rid of it. After I saw a conversation she had with a friend about no longer having the strength to keep the baby. The point am trying to make is that it's not easy.

Don't laugh or mock people who get Into though situation. The promise I had made to God I didn't keep, been young and stupid. And still continued. How I never got any girl pregnant God knows. The whole point is that even if though keeping an unwanted baby is probably the hardest situation anybody in that situation will probably ever face and even though abortion seems to be the easy, quickest way out, but at the end, it will pay not to do it, at least in the long run, cause at first you'll probably even regretting keeping the baby, but it's worth it.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Abortion: a complicated thing.

justthinkaboutitlikethat said...

Tell me about it... There a lot of things that go un addressed in Nigeria I feel should beaaddressed

Unknown said...

i enjoyed the article.