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Ayesha Howard has revealed text messages with Anthony Edwards, who is supposedly her unborn child’s father. In the messages, Edwards tells Howard that he will not be involved in the child’s life, therefore she should get an abortion. “I’m pregnant, wanted to tell you in person but you gave me no other choice. We probably should have kept it cordial but we’re here now,” Howard wrote in the text message.
Despite Anthony Edwards encouraging Howard to get an abortion, Howard claims that getting an abortion is not an option. She also insisted that her intentions were not to blackmail him. She wrote, “ I can keep you updated through the process or I can disappear until the babies here… it’s on you. Either way, I’m done going back and forward cause you still think it’s a joke.”
Anthony Edwards went ahead to call her sick and insisted that he won’t be in a child’s life that he does not want. Following the texts messages being shared online, social media users have had mixed feeling, with some blaming Ayesha Howard for dating a younger man.
“ We have all become so numb, ungrateful and disrespectful of the ability to reproduce and give life that abortion has been desensitized. You are so accustomed to seeing, hearing and being raised by women who had to be the village after abandonment, this society has normalized cowardly behavior. Now the blame is put in the woman on innocent babies while the man is continuously protected,” Howard wrote on Instagram.
She concluded by writing, “I’m happy with mine. My daughter is a God – given gift, not a mistake. The act was consensual and my baby is not to blame. It’s my body, my choice, my right, my mind. I’m not imposing what you should do with your body, so please respect my choice with mine. To any woman navigating single motherhood stay strong and stand tall for your babies. The wrong is in abandonment, not in the blessing of reproduction.”