Since Ini Edo, a well-known actress, revealed that she was considering surrogacy, a number of individuals have expressed their thoughts on her decision.
“I opted for a donor for me and my baby’s peace of mind,” Edo stated in an interview with blogger Stella Dimoko Korkus. Marriage should come before children in an ideal world, but we don’t live in one. Another reason I chose a donor is that it worries me to witness banter and debates between a mother and a father over a kid on public forums, or when I see the man saying that he wants his child if things don’t work out between the two of them. It’s the fear of what that would imply for the child that drives me. “I am not someone who allows circumstances to rule me.”
Reacting to the development, a writer simply identified as Waterz Yidana condemned the actress for not using a man she knows as the sperm donor.
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Yidana noted that it is wrong for Iniโs baby not to know her father.
The writer wrote in parts: โI read in the news today that she (Ini Edo) has birthed a baby girl through surrogacy and she is very happy about that. Well, I am happy for her too as a fanโฆ
Congratulations to her. But she committed a blunder I will like to point out to herโฆ.
I understand the plight of women who have tried everything possible to have their own children but cannot. Itโs depressing and soul-crushing.
I always sympathize with them and encourage our men to treat such women with so much kindness because they need it to keep them truly alive.
To be barren in Africa is not easy. People will judge you from left and right without knowing how you truly feel as a woman who wants your own child or children.
Some of these women with such problems , in their quest to get a child by all means, try different things including surrogacy, especially those of them who are privileged or quite okay in lifeโฆ
Itโs not a bad thing to have a child through surrogacy if youโve problems with your reproductive system or having an issue getting pregnant or, in a case where getting pregnant and giving birth poses a threat to your healthโฆ
But my only problem is that Ini Edo has created a big problem for this innocent baby when she grows up to understand how things work in lifeโฆ
Of course, Ini Edo deserves to be happy, but letโs not forget that the innocent child deserves to be happy too, in the future when she grows up to understand whatโs happening around herโฆ.
She birthing the baby through surrogacy is not the problem as I keep saying,
but her decision of using a random or an anonymous โdonor spermโ is my problem with her. Yes, the Eggs are hers and so genetically the baby is her blood.
But who is the babyโs father? Where is he? From which family background? Is he a Ghanaian, Nigerian or a South African? What is his identity?
Who is her surrogate mother? Where is she? The woman that suffered to carry her nine months in her womb!โฆ
These are very relevant questions Ini Edo and her friends might be overlooking, but this innocent child will ask these same questions some day when she needs fatherly love and care.
This baby will go through a lot of psychological problems and mental tortures looking for who her father is and the woman that carried her for nine months in her womb.
Do you think that it is easy to live without knowing your father in an African society?
If you grow up as a child and ask about your father, and youโre told that heโs dead, youโll understand because youโll see his pictures and his familyโฆ
But for Ini Edo to tell the child that โI donโt know your father. โIt was an anonymous โdonor spermโ with my egg that another woman carried for nine months for meโ, will make the child the most miserable person on earth. She may even commit suicide if she is not strong emotionallyโฆ.
Worse of it all, is if Ini Edo doesnโt live long enough to see this child grow up as an adult. Who will be her family? Ini Edoโs brothers and sisters? Too badโฆ.
Itโs not the best to have a child through surrogacy with a random or an anonymous โdonor spermโ
Ini Edo couldโve made her boyfriend or any man she admires donate his sperm for this baby since sheโs not ready for marriage.
But to say that she doesnโt want any โbaby daddy dramaโ thatโs why she chose a random โdonor spermโ is only showing her level of selfishness or childishnessโฆ.
She doesnโt truly care about how the baby will feel when she grows upโฆ..
She just cares about having a baby to please the society or to prove a useless point to people who donโt like her or people she doesnโt like. Too bad. I pity the innocent babyโฆ
Other women who may want to have children this way should do with a man they like so that the child can also have and know their fatherโฆ.
Itโs a great thing to have a father. And everyone deserves oneโ.