{"id":4199,"date":"2024-08-30T02:05:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T02:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2024-08-30T02:05:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T02:05:16","slug":"esther-smith-opens-up-about-her-mothers-initial-decision-to-terminate-her-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=4199","title":{"rendered":"Esther Smith opens up about her mother&#8217;s initial decision to terminate her pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/76791476.295.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4200\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Popular Ghanaian gospel artiste Esther Smith has shared a personal and emotional story about her birth.<br><br>During an interview with Nana Romeo on Accra FM on August 29, 2024, she revealed that her mother, who was a schoolgirl at the time, initially wanted to abort her due to the circumstances surrounding her conception.<br><br>Esther Smith recounted how her grandmother suspected something suspicious and followed her mother on the day she planned to go to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) for the abortion.<br><br>\u201cMy mother wanted to abort me,&#8221; she said. \u201cOn the day, she was going to KATH for the abortion. Her mother suspected something and asked where she was headed and started following her around.&#8221;<br><br>The singer said her mother eventually confessed her intentions, and even Esther Smith&#8217;s father, who initially did not want her, intervened to stop the abortion.<br><br>\u201cEven my father who didn\u2019t even want me, when he realised that my mother wanted to abort me, he stopped her.<br><br>\u201cShe had taken a lot of drugs to help with the abortion but none of them worked,\u201d she added.<br><br>During this challenging period, a pastor told her mother that the child would make a significant impact on the country.<br><br>Reflecting on her journey, Esther Smith acknowledged the divine intervention that saved her life, allowing her to become a prominent figure in Ghanaian gospel music.<br><br>Meanwhile, the singer has said the first-ever song she penned was called Ewurade Wo Din No Hyeren (LORD, Your Name is Glorious).<br><br>\u201cWhen I was 14 years old, I used to go to church with my aunt and joined a Methodist choir somewhere in Kumasi,\u201d the Gospel star said, talking about the Tanoso Methodist Church Choir. \u201cI was the youngest in the choir.\u201d<br><br>Later, the singer added, \u201cWe moved to House of Faith Ministries where I joined Voices of Faith at the age of 16\u201d.<br><br>The Kumasi-born and UK-based Ghanaian said this was where \u201cI started to write my own songs \u2013 at the age of 16\u201d.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Ghanaian gospel artiste Esther Smith has shared a personal and emotional story about her birth. During an interview with Nana Romeo on Accra FM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4201,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions\/4201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}