A life-affirming training for nurses and midwives is having an impact on attitudes toward pregnancy in Nigeria.
Human Life International (HLI) presented pro-life education and training over the summer to nursing students at the College of Nursing Sciences Adazi-Nnukwu, in Anambra, Nigeria. HLI’s course was also available to students pursuing basic midwifery studies at the college.
As the most populous black nation on Earth and Africa’s largest economy, sub–Saharan Nigeria has been a popular target of western global entities, a statement from HLI said, with agendas that regularly push for so called “safe abortion” services in a country where abortion is not permitted. There has also been a large focus on birth control, sterilization, and making chemical abortion pills available.
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There were 500 student nurses, male and female, taking part in the HLI training at the college. They are now better prepared to help combat the Nigeria’s high maternal death rate and the “ideological colonization being perpetrated against African women by western organizations under the guise of women’s health.”
The student nurses were presented with pro-life perspectives along with the medical training received, HLI Nigeria Director Charles Nnagboh explained. The HLI curriculum also addressed myths and facts related to abortion, contraception and natural family planning, sexual relationships, and assisted reproductive technologies.
“The goal of this program is to equip these student nurses with the information, education and skills to become effective pro-life practitioners who will courageously spread the gospel of life and provide their patients with healthy, life-affirming alternatives to the culture of death being forced on Africans by those from Western nations,” Nnagboh said.
“Through abortion, birth control and sterilization, Africa’s population has long been intentionally targeted for decimation,” said Emil Hagamu, Nnagboh’s colleague at HLI and regional director for the group in English-speaking Africa.
“The western world reeled in horror when late in 2022, news broke about women being forced to have abortions by the Nigerian army,” said John Martin, chief Advancement officer for HLI. “Reuters revealed in December that at least 10,000 pregnancies had been terminated among women and girls impregnated by Islamist insurgents over the last decade.”
“Yet, there are almost two million abortions of Nigerian babies each year by those who have been sent to provide ‘help’ to Nigerian women,” Martin said. “In a country where abortion is outlawed except to save an expectant mother from death, 45 out of each 1,000 pregnancies ends in intentional abortion.”
Pro-abortion groups are on the ground in Nigeria, promoting abortion in programs.
“Recently, UNICEF started aggressive training of midwives, nurses, and health workers in artificial birth control,” Nnagboh said. “They plan to deploy 4,000 midwives to rural communities in the Nigerian state of Anambra, where the College of Nursing Sciences in Adazi-Nnukwu is located.”
Ipas Nigeria, another western-funded group, claims to have “averted” 642,000 unsafe abortions and 150,000 unintended pregnancies. Ipas also plugs “evidence” that pregnant women can “safely manage their own abortions,” a narrative that HLI counters with facts in its pro-life teaching material.
Once a child has been conceived, the curriculum states, “a woman has already procreated…” The only question that remains is whether or not she will deliver that baby or allow someone to kill it. As for “safe” abortion, the materials detail that an abortion of any ilk “is anything but safe.”
Human Life International’s mission includes large-scale promotion of natural family planning, a non-abortifacient, non-chemical, non-mechanical, safe alternative to the birth control that is heavily promoted by the abortion industry.
“The culture of death in Africa teaches student nurses, midwives and health workers that contraceptives are the only way to go in family planning,” Nnagboh explained. “After learning about artificial birth control and its devastating effects on souls, bodies, and marriages, nursing student Emeka vowed to replicate the training in rural communities to give women of childbearing age a “credible and godly alternative” to the artificial birth control being touted as healthcare.”
There was significant impact among the students from viewing video footage of unborn children living in utero and of aborted babies.
Perpetua, a nurse in training, said that the documentary, The Hard Truth, “exposed the reality that abortion is not healthcare but deliberate killing of the innocent.”
“I have resolved with all the strength in me to change this narrative by enlightening others, so they won’t fall for the same lie,” she said.
Another student, Onyeka, remarked on how she was moved by the film.
“I’m still in shock that what is being touted as compassion for women is butchery of an innocent human being,” Onyeka said. “I have since reconciled with God and have vowed not only to stop pushing for abortion but also to help women in crisis pregnancy choose life.”
Another student, Ngozi, questioned how the act of taking an unborn child’s life through abortion could be called “choice.” That was how abortion had been promoted to her, the HLI release said, and she herself has had three abortions.
Ngozi is now speaking out on the truth about abortion.
“I was blind but now I can see,” she said. “Thanks to Human Life International’s life-saving work.”
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Now that the HLI curriculum has been instituted, more medical staff in Nigeria can use their moral pro-life education to counteract pro-abortion pressure.
