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Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by socialjustice93: 10:23pm On May 03, 2025
PressMyButton:
While I thought your head was on your shoulders tonight..my bad.
Tell me the agreement between you and a surrogate mother before she agreed to carry your baby and tell me if there's any difference with same agreement as in prostitution.
Biologically, a woman whose egg receives the spermatozoa is the mother of the baby. Enough said.
This comment shows you don't understand what surrogacy is. Read up okay 🤝
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Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by ednut1(m): 10:23pm On May 03, 2025
Exploited another woman’s body. Ok
Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by Kobojunkie: 10:26pm On May 03, 2025
casualobserver:
➜They spend all their youth preaching feminism, woman power, you go girl and deceiving other women, then they get to their 40s and realize as a woman no achievement can make up for not having a child because that is what you are biologically programmed to do. They can afford IVF, surrogacy etc. most of the women they lead astray can’t and don’t even have a man!
All of Oprah's achievements amount to nothing because she has no child? The way many of you reason dey tire person! 😩😩😩😩😩
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Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by PressMyButton(op): 10:27pm On May 03, 2025
Mear23:
Your assertion is not completely true.

In surrogacy. The eggs or sperm can come from an intending parents or a donor.
But after fertilisation, another woman different from the intending parent will be implanted with the fertilised egg.
That's IVF. However, if another woman donates her egg, that's surrogacy. I'm tired of repeating myself.
Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by Agbegbaorogboye: 10:28pm On May 03, 2025
Xannadu:
Bro, I'm not interested in bantering with you, I'm only doing this to prevent others from being misinformed by your crass ignorance and utter disdain for knowledge. After this I won't reply you.
Don't take him too seriously
He's an APC zombie
He's paid to be stupid
His only grouse with surrogacy is the person who did it not the procedure itself
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Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by Mariangeles(f): 10:31pm On May 03, 2025
Chimamanda, nwaanyi oma. 💖
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Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by omoyorubaatata: 10:31pm On May 03, 2025
Xannadu:
Did you even check the meaning of surrogacy before posting this? Let me explain it to you in it's most basic form: The husband's sperm is taken from him, the wife's egg is taken from her, they are joined together through a process called in vitro fertilization in the lab, and then this is inserted into the surrogate's (a consenting, well paid adult female) womb.

Now tell me, does this look like the process you just described above?
Stop defending the indefensible. Do you think only sperms and eggs make a child to develop? What about the feeding, blood and other nutrients that the baby is deriving from the body of the surrogate? Oh that is not required? So why dont they deposit their eggs and sperms in a goat instead?
Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by Xannadu: 10:33pm On May 03, 2025
omoyorubaatata:
Stop defending the indefensible. Do you think only sperms and eggs make a child to develop? What about the feeding, blood and other nutrients that the baby is deriving from the body of the surrogate? Oh that is not required? So why dont they deposit their eggs and sperms in a goat instead?
Ok, you're right. You're a genius.
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Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by casualobserver: 10:34pm On May 03, 2025
Kobojunkie:
All of Oprah's achievements amount to nothing because she has no child? The way many of you reason dey tire person! 😩😩😩😩😩
To you she has achieved a lot, deep inside her a woman eventually regrets not having children. That they don’t tell you doesn’t mean they don’t. Why else would childless women in their 50s and 60s be engaging in IVF and surrogacy?

Finally don’t compare ordinary women to Oprah, she can afford to buy attention to compensate for the lack of children. She will have people around her till the day she dies. Most single and childless women will die alone sometimes for days without anyone knowing they died. It happens a lot in the west. If you want to know what is coming in future from adopting western practices like childless unmarried women or single mothers, just look at the countries that have had such practices before us.

Finally finally, Oprah had deep emotional scars from her childhood. It wasn’t a lifestyle choice for her.


Finally finally finally, don’t compare yourselves to the .0001% of society. You are not Dangote, you are not Bill Gates, you are not Oprah. They can break the laws, you can’t!
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Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by Mariangeles(f): 10:35pm On May 03, 2025
PressMyButton:
While I thought your head was on your shoulders tonight..my bad.
Tell me the agreement between you and a surrogate mother before she agreed to carry your baby and tell me if there's any difference with same agreement as in prostitution.
Biologically, a woman whose egg receives the spermatozoa is the mother of the baby. Enough said.
That is not the case in modern day surrogacy.
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Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by PressMyButton(op): 10:39pm On May 03, 2025
mrvitalis:
Twins that came from her own eggs... Are genetically hers?
Are you her husband?, how did you know this?
Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by Agbegbaorogboye: 10:39pm On May 03, 2025
casualobserver:
To you she has achieved a lot, deep inside her a woman eventually regrets not having children. That they don’t tell you doesn’t mean they don’t. Why else would childless women in their 50s and 60s be engaging in IVF and surrogacy?

Finally don’t compare ordinary women to Oprah, she can afford to buy attention to compensate for the lack of children. She will have people around her till the day she dies. Most single and childless women will die alone sometimes for days without anyone knowing they died. It happens a lot in the west. If you want to know what is coming in future from adopting western practices like childless unmarried women or single mothers, just look at the countries that have had such practices before us.

Finally finally, Oprah had deep emotional scars from her childhood. It wasn’t a lifestyle choice for her.


Finally finally finally, don’t compare yourselves to the .0001% of society. You are not Dangote, you are not Bill Gates, you are not Oprah. They can break the laws, you can’t!
Chimmamanda already had children by herself before now
BTW are you APC clowns aware that Folashade, Tinubu's first daughter had children via surrogacy?
I'm sure PressMyButton will no longer think surrogacy is slavery, prostitution and exploitation now
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Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by descarado: 10:40pm On May 03, 2025
PressMyButton:
You needed a vessel that has her own eggs already?. You guys are mixing up IVF with Surrogacy.
A mum once did that for her married daughter.



A 53-year-old UK woman has given birth to a child she was carrying for her daughter, leading many in the media to exclaim that she 'has given birth to her own grandchild'. Annie Casserley acted as a surrogate for her daughter, 35-year old Emma Hattersley, who has a medical condition making her unable to withstand a pregnancy.

Mrs Hattersley has an extremely rare condition - she is thought to be one of only three people in the world affected by it - called Histiocytosis X. The cancer-like condition attacks the lungs, causing them to collapse, and means she is unable to do anything that puts too much strain on them such as having a general anaesthetic, flying, or becoming pregnant. In order to have a child of her own, therefore, she needed to use surrogacy. Her mother agreed to act as a surrogate for her and was assessed by doctors at the Good Hope NHS Hospital, Birmingham, who decided that even though she was 53, she was fit and healthy enough to undertake the pregnancy. In January, Mrs Hattersley's eggs were collected and fertilised in vitro by Mr Hattersley's sperm, before the resulting embryos were implanted into Mrs Casserley.


You know the problem with people like you.
Ignorance.

By the way, this is one out of so many.
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Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by PressMyButton(op): 10:41pm On May 03, 2025
Agbegbaorogboye:
Stop advertising your ignorance out of political difference

How is surrogacy slavery, prostitution and exploitation of a woman's body?
Are you even aware that most surrogacy don't have sexual intercourse with the donor?
Are you aware a woman's eggs can be harvested and implanted into another woman which will mean that the baby will carry the egg donor's DNA?
So how do you mean biologically the baby is the surrogate mother's.
Is any surrogate being forced to play the role?
Differing with people politically is not a licence to lose your common sense
It makes no sense to condemn surrogacy simply because someone you disagree with politically embraced it.
It makes you sound like an ignorant extremist
You're talking nonsense. I'm not talking politics here. It's an exploitation of another woman's body whether you chose to live in delusion or not.
Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by Kobojunkie: 10:42pm On May 03, 2025
casualobserver:
➜ To you she has achieved a lot, deep inside her a woman eventually regrets not having children. That they don’t tell you doesn’t mean they don’t. Why else would women in their 50s and 60s be engaging in IVF and surrogacy?
Finally don’t compare ordinary women to Oprah, she can afford to buy attention to compensate for the lack of children. She will have people around her till the day she dies. Most single and childless women will die alone sometimes for days without anyone knowing they died. It happens a lot in the west. If you want to know what is coming in future from adopting western practices like childless unmarried women or single mothers, just look at the countries that have had such practices before us.
Finally finally, Oprah had deep emotional scars from her childhood. It wasn’t a lifestyle choice for her.
See the kain miserable thoughts that worm through this one's mind. Na so so brain farts! 😩😩😩😩😩
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Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by PressMyButton(op): 10:42pm On May 03, 2025
Mariangeles:
That is not the case in modern day surrogacy.
You go explain tire.
Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by victorv12(m): 10:45pm On May 03, 2025
She is mad!
Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by Kobojunkie: 10:47pm On May 03, 2025
Agbegbaorogboye:
➜Chimmamanda already had children by herself before now. BTW are you APC clowns aware that Folashade, Tinubu's first daughter had children via surrogacy?
I'm sure PressMyButton will no longer think surrogacy is slavery, prostitution and exploitation now
. Is that the iyaoloja one? grin
Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by PressMyButton(op): 10:48pm On May 03, 2025
descarado:
A mum once did that for her married daughter.



A 53-year-old UK woman has given birth to a child she was carrying for her daughter, leading many in the media to exclaim that she 'has given birth to her own grandchild'. Annie Casserley acted as a surrogate for her daughter, 35-year old Emma Hattersley, who has a medical condition making her unable to withstand a pregnancy.

Mrs Hattersley has an extremely rare condition - she is thought to be one of only three people in the world affected by it - called Histiocytosis X. The cancer-like condition attacks the lungs, causing them to collapse, and means she is unable to do anything that puts too much strain on them such as having a general anaesthetic, flying, or becoming pregnant. In order to have a child of her own, therefore, she needed to use surrogacy. Her mother agreed to act as a surrogate for her and was assessed by doctors at the Good Hope NHS Hospital, Birmingham, who decided that even though she was 53, she was fit and healthy enough to undertake the pregnancy. In January, Mrs Hattersley's eggs were collected and fertilised in vitro by Mr Hattersley's sperm, before the resulting embryos were implanted into Mrs Casserley.


You know the problem with people like you.
Ignorance.

By the way, this is one out of so many.
Your problem is semantics. Generally they refer to it as surrogacy but there's a difference. The daughter in question had her egg, only needed a vessel. Both her egg and the sperm of her husband would be inseminated into her mother, that's IVF. However, when another woman's egg is needed to birth a child that's proper surrogacy.
Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by PressMyButton(op): 10:49pm On May 03, 2025
Agbegbaorogboye:
Chimmamanda already had children by herself before now
BTW are you APC clowns aware that Folashade, Tinubu's first daughter had children via surrogacy?
I'm sure PressMyButton will no longer think surrogacy is slavery, prostitution and exploitation now
I guess you have never heard of secondary infertility. Doesn't matter if you have had a child before.
Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by Agbegbaorogboye: 10:49pm On May 03, 2025
PressMyButton:
You're talking nonsense. I'm not talking politics here. It's an exploitation of another woman's body whether you chose to live in delusion or not.
Are you aware that Folashade Tinubu-Ojo had children via surrogacy?
Do you still see it as exploitation of another woman's body now that your Lord and master is on the table
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Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by PressMyButton(op): 10:50pm On May 03, 2025
Agbegbaorogboye:
Are you aware that Folashade Tinubu-Ojo had children via surrogacy?
Do you still see it as exploitation of another woman's body now that your Lord and master is on the table
As long as you paid to use another woman's body, it is exploitation. Grow up and grow above politics.
Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by Agbegbaorogboye: 10:51pm On May 03, 2025
Kobojunkie:
. Is that the iyaoloja one? grin
Exactly
She had fertility issues and had to embrace surrogacy and Tinubu clowns are here ignorantly condemning surrogacy because of Chimmamanda
Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by NybenSBF101(m): 10:52pm On May 03, 2025
This one na lesb1an
Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by jojothaiv(m): 10:52pm On May 03, 2025
PressMyButton:
This is why I didn't want to talk about it, I have nothing against surrogacy. But for Chimamanda who prides herself as a feminist and at every platform, hammers on it, I find it as a dishonesty. Before you start forming feminism, just pray life doesn't happen to you.
Humans are usually not what they think they are, Chimamanda is not exception neither are we too.
Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by Agbegbaorogboye: 10:53pm On May 03, 2025
PressMyButton:
As long as you paid to use another woman's body, it is exploitation. Grow up and grow above politics.
Ok na
So we can both agree for once that Tinubu's daughter exploited other women for her selfish interest
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Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by Kobojunkie: 10:54pm On May 03, 2025
Agbegbaorogboye:
Exactly She had fertility issues and had to embrace surrogacy and Tinubu clowns are here ignorantly condemning surrogacy because of Chimmamanda
😂😂😂😂😂
Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by tete7000(m): 10:58pm On May 03, 2025
Her problem. When you always need to explain your choices to the world, wahala dey. And by the way, I never heard her husband speak for once, always her. If someone marries a "celebrity" wife, is he not automatically a celebrity husband?
Re: My Twins Were Born By Surrogacy - Chimamanda Adichie by SonofElElyonRet: 11:02pm On May 03, 2025
The child is made up of 3 people.. the child also takes surrogate mother's nature and person while in her..
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