Sometime last year, one of my friends called me around midnight.
A relative of his impregnated a lady and abandoned her and the lady was in a terrible state.
He spoke with her that night and realized that she planned to commit abortion the next day and they had already made everything ready.
When he confronted her, she confirmed it. And broke down in Tears.😕
She explained the embarrassment, the shame, and resentment having a child outside wedlock would bring to her family and her life too and it will stop her education as well.
She also explained how there is no help from anywhere to take care of the baby as she is not having any source of income.
Her parents have disowned her already. 😒😞
He tried to convince her otherwise but her mind was made up.
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According to him, he had no one to call at that point and he remembered me.
He placed a call across to me and explained the situation and requested that I speak with the lady.
He explained how he tried all to no avail as her mind was made up already.
That midnight, he gave me her number and I called her and spoke with her.
I didn't sympathize with her, I didn't join in their pity party, I didn't even call to criticize the man.
I was there to challenge her. Yes, I challenged her.
I challenged her to prove him wrong.
I challenged her to stand strong whether he chose to face his responsibility or not.
I told her that the biggest kind of revenge is massive success.
And that she should pay the price and give birth to that child, train the child properly and watch him become a man to be envied, unlike his father.
I told her to give the boy a chance to live as he deserves to be alive(I am still wondering how i knew it was a boy)🤨
I told her that his father has failed him, she shouldn't fail him too.
I told her to stand and fight, fight not in a negative way but to right a wrong using the right action.
She was encouraged and decided to keep the baby amidst all.
Two months later, Life hit the lady hard again and was trying to frustrate her to end the situation once and for all, a friend of hers advised her to flush the child and convinced her that she knows the right doctor to go to.
and once again, my friend was hinted and he called her, she crying said she couldn't continue and that the situation was too much for her to bear.
Her friend told her that the doctor was good and everything will go well.
She was tired of everything and even though the month was late, she has decided to take the risk and abort that baby that is bringing her so much pain.😭
She was financially broke, she had stopped schooling because she couldn't combine both, she had no source of income, the shame and taunts from her family and neighbors were increasing by the day. 😒
She couldn't continue again.
She broke down in tears!!
The tears flowed freely. 😭
She knows she made a mistake and wanted to clear that mistake once and for all at the detriment of that boy's future.
The father had not called since she took in. Each time she calls him, he would busy the call.
He wasn't ready to take responsibility.
My friend tried his best to talk her out of her decision all to no avail and he called me again (late at night).
I don't pick calls after 10 pm but i did it for his sake.
I recorded voice notes and sent them to his WhatsApp and told him to forward the voice notes to the lady. And I went back to sleep.
Which he did.
According to him, whatever I said in those voice notes worked, she was encouraged to continue until the end.
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3 months later, my friend called me and told me that she have delivered a bouncing baby boy💃🏻💃🏻 and she called him Soromutochukwu which is translated as "Everybody, come, follow me and thank this God"
That night, as I heard the news my heart leaped for joy,🥰🥰 I felt like a grandmother. 💃🏻
Yes, I did!!😁
I had an overwhelming joy flowing within me.
In my imagination, I was already carrying that baby boy and I was dancing for joy in my room.🙈 I was dancing like a grandmother.
I know I am a part of his life story.
He may never meet me, his mother may never meet me (and that is fine) but I have played my part.
I saved a life.❣️
Hidden within that boy may be the solution of nations.
He may be the miracle many people are praying to God for.
He may be the hand that would wipe the tears of millions.
We may never know unless we give him a chance to prove himself.
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If you are planning to abort that child because you have calculated the shame, reproach, and embarrassment its birth would bring to your life, here is me telling you to give him/her a chance to live. 😟
If Nelson Mandela's mother aborted him in childhood, we won't have the national activist who brought freedom to his people.
You may never know what that child is capable of becoming unless you give it a chance to live.
Also, you cannot afford to live a life filled with guilt and the painful repercussions that comes with abortion.
No matter how it is beautifully painted by the world system, abortion is wrong.
Give that child a chance to live the same way someone was kind enough to give you a chance to live too.
I know you made a mistake, there is no need to place blames.
The deed has been done already.
You have another chance to right the wrong.
And that chance starts with the decision you take today.
In the same vein your dreams are valid, don't abort them because of the challenges life is throwing at you.
That idea within you can birth the solution that the world have been praying to God for.
~Stephanie Chuks
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