Hello, I'm Daniel, a public administration student with a passion for writing. I started writing as a hobby and discovered it's therapeutic for me - it's my safe space. I enjoy writing articles and poetry, often focusing on themes that highlight the underdog and exploring controversial issues. Here is an article of a opinion essay.
Tupac once said, "Wild seeds can't grow, we need more abortions." Let's think about that for a second; let's forget about our religious beliefs or established moral codes and think logically. I will give an example: a 15-year-old gets pregnant. We all know that a child is a blessing, but this 15-year-old is a child herself and hardly takes care of herself. She comes from a poor home and got kicked out as a result of an unwanted pregnancy. She decides to keep the baby because abortion is against her religious beliefs.
To cut the story short, she tried her best to raise her precious baby, but reality hits; her best wasn't enough. As the child grew older, he started to understand the viciousness of life and decided in his mind to survive at all costs, even if he had to take it from others. A mind hardened by hunger and suffering, he started to defraud lonely white women. When that well dried up, he joined a gang, becoming the terror of the state. In his mind, he was doing all this just to survive and give his mother a better life, which is good, but the only problem was that he had to destroy other families just to achieve his aim. He robbed, murdered, and raped his victims; he became the demon that pastors prayed against.
I would love to say that he met his end at the wrong end of a rifle, but I can't, because he still roams the street looking for his next victim. All this would have been avoided if the 15-year-old just had an abortion. Wild seeds truly shouldn’t be allowed to grow; we need more abortions.
Another example is Hitler; you all know how it ended.
What are your thoughts? "Wild seeds can't grow." These days, I find myself pondering what "wild seeds" means. Would have asked Tupac, but he has gone to a better place. I sure hope so, because this place can be considered hell, well, to some people, especially the common Nigerians.
In my humble opinion, wild seeds are the people that cause harm to others, just to get ahead. They go down the path of destruction, refusing to build themselves and leave a better example for later generations. I will give an example; this one hits close to home. A girl from an impoverished family had nothing; the clothes on her back were given to her by the church. She didn’t give into peer pressure, being mocked every day for wearing rags. A beautiful lady full of life, she clung onto Jesus while her friends belonged to the streets. They tried to convince her to sleep around for riches, but she held onto her morals.
She took her time, learned a skill, became good at it until someone discovered her talent and took her to London to work. Now she has a PhD, built five houses in her country, and has changed her family's destiny. She is a Nigerian. There are other examples of people that came from nothing and became something; you just have to open your eyes to see them.
The piece oversimplifies complex issues like poverty, parenting, and crime and could be said to be logically flawed as the argument relies on hypothetical scenarios and assumes abortion would prevent societal problems.
Let me know what you think about this thought provoking issue?
OTHERS OPINION
Miss Nancy : Honestly, abortion isn't something I'm comfortable with. I know life's complicated, and people face tough choices, but for me, it's about respecting the value of life. My faith plays a big role in shaping my views, but even beyond that, it's just something that feels right to me.
Mrs Olubunmi :
Abortion is not legal but it can be understood where it is done for purely medical purposes to preserve the life of the mother. Meanwhile, Nigerian women should learn about giving up their babies for adoption despite the stigma of adoption in Nigeria.
In a nutshell I don't believe it is right to commit an abortion.
Chison : In my opinion, what a child turns out to become is not necessarily a result of the circumstances around their birth, but rather how they are trained and the choices they make and the path they choose to succeed. We need more education on abortion and unwanted pregnancy. Abortion should be legal and not something to be ashamed of; married people also have abortions if it's not planned. Underage pregnancy could be taken care of by her family, the government, or NGOs
