RIGHTEOUS WOMBS, UNRIGHTEOUS OPINIONS: ON TOKE MAKINWA'S BABY DRAMA & THE MORALITY POLICE.

When Nigerian media personality Toke Makinwa announced her pregnancy, she called it God’s timing — the answer to years of prayer. Many congratulated her, but almost immediately, the morality police came out swinging. Among them was popular commentator Solomon Buchi, who declared that her path to motherhood through donor conception should not be credited to God.

But who gave anyone the authority to decide which womb God blesses and which one He doesn’t?

Tradition Masquerading as Scripture

In Nigeria, the formula seems simple: marriage first, children next. Step outside that order and you’re branded immoral. But let’s be honest — that’s culture talking, not scripture.

The Bible condemns fornication and adultery. Toke’s path involved neither. No sexual immorality, no sin. Just science, intention, and prayer. The uncomfortable truth is this: scripture is silent on IVF, sperm donation, or assisted reproduction. So what people call “God’s way” is usually just cultural preference dressed up as theology.

The Gender Hypocrisy

If a man fathers ten children outside of marriage, society shrugs. Na man. But when a woman chooses motherhood on her own terms — without scandal, without sin — suddenly the moral alarm bells start ringing.

This is not about God’s will. It’s about policing women’s autonomy. It’s about the discomfort that comes when a woman refuses to wait for a man, a ring, or cultural approval before embracing the fullness of her life.

Who Really Decides God’s Timing?

If Toke says this is her moment with God, who are we to say otherwise? The same Christians who call children a gift from God somehow believe that gift loses its holiness if it arrives through science or outside of marriage. That’s not faith; that’s hypocrisy.

The Real Question

Toke Makinwa’s choice has pulled the veil off a bigger hypocrisy: society is less concerned with righteousness and more obsessed with control. It wants women to need permission to be mothers, wives, or anything in between.

So perhaps the real question is not “Is this God’s way?” but: “Why does a woman’s womb only become righteous when a man is standing next to it?”

Written by Franka Chiedu & Mercy Harold.