Okay now.. without waste of time, we
have got something very sensitive to talk about…its about the women and girls
that are currently pregnant for the Boko boys and the mix feeling as to whether
or whether not they should keep the pregnancy or abort it.
Now it should interest you to note
that these women have tested positive to HIV and life from now on would be
different and needless to say, difficult seeing how life is in the northeast.
So, the question tonight is, should they go ahead and abort the babies or
do they keep the babies?
Remember that they were raped or
forced into marriage against their will under duress… and even if they keep
these children, they might grow up to hate these kids, so wouldnt it be wise
for them to abort the babies?
I don’t know about you, but need I ask
you, if you were ever wounded and traumatized as these chibok women who were
captured, raped daily in that forest, if you had to face your death every
single day, if you have had to receive absolutely no mercy from a group of
terrorists, would you be able to choose life for anyone let alone a child
growing inside me as a result of being raped??? Think about it and let us
know if after going through all the traumatic experiences for more than a year,
use as sexual slave constantly threatened to be killed if you go against
their wish or command… got you pregnant, eventually you got the chance to be
saved by the army…
These pregnant mothers have
chosen not to carry their babies to term but some bodies but religions and none
are appealing that they do not abort these innocent babies because that will be
like revisiting the evils of their fathers on their kids….
So the only way these babies can
receive mercy is if their traumatized and deeply wounded mothers are able to
choose life (instead of death for them) and so they think what these women need
is support. But my problem is even if govt or society decides to support them..
The question: “for how long?”
If they say, ok lets have psychologist
come on board to help stabilize these women, mentally in order to take away
their bitterness and anger that they feel inside which undeniably could be
transferred to their unborn child as we speak, the question here and again is:
how patient will these psychologist be, seeing how porous out customer service
relations are in Nigeria?
The Borno State
Governor, Kashim Shettima recently said that Boko Haram insurgents deliberately
raped the women they abducted to get them pregnant so as to give birth to
future generation of jihadist insurgents.
He said that based
on his study and observation of Boko Haram members, he observed that the belief
among most of them was that they can confiscate any wife or property from
someone who does not share their interpretation of Islam and that children
“fathered by them (Boko Haram) are likely to share their ideology later in life
and succeed their parents in the years to come,” which would ensure a
continuous cycle of insurgency.
Governor Shettima
further expressed concern that Boko Haram would after “putting a woman in the
family way, identify them with particular communities to monitor the children
and whisk them away in future. So invariably, there was a purpose behind
impregnating these women!
Now, There has been a lot of
controversy regarding the fate of women raped and impregnated by Boko Haram
members .While some groups have said they should abort the babies, others have
said the women should not.
As an individual who feels things
deeply; what should be the fate of these unborn babies? Should they be aborted
or not? The blood of an insurgent runs through through their vein, now who is
to say that they will not turn out like their fathers?
What about the mothers,? They
obviously have go through a traumatic experience that they child will always
remind them of on how they were conceived… the pain that their husbands or
siblings or parents were killed in the hands of these insurgent, the fear that
they might get killed if they refused to do their biddings, that they
might never be found or rescued and reunited with their family, the punishment
they had to go through to stay alive…
Oh yes, there is a high possibility
that these women are bitter, some thing can never be forgotten or forgiven.. so
should they keep these babies, still?
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