What if Steve Jobs had been aborted?
Did you know that Steve Jobs was adopted? To think how different the world would be today without his innovation and drive!
Steve Jobs Was an Arab American
Shirin Sadeghi
10/6/11 12:40 AM ET
Abdul Fattah Jandali, a young Syrian Muslim immigrant in Wisconsin, never met his son Steve Jobs. When a baby was born to the 23-year-old Jandali -- now known as John -- and his 23-year-old German-American girlfriend, Joanne Schieble, in 1955, there was no chance he'd be able to grow up with his biological parents.Joanne, who belonged to a white, conservative Christian family could not convince her parents to marry an Arab, a Muslim, according to Jandali, who called her father "a tyrant" in a New York Post interview in August 2011. In fact, according to Jandali, she secreted off from Wisconsin to liberal San Francisco to sort out the birth and adoption without letting either him or her parents know.
And so it was that a nameless Arab-American baby was adopted by an Armenian-American family. Clara Hagopian and her husband Paul Jobs had been married around seven years and had not been able to conceive. The little bundle that would be Steve was very much wanted in the Jobs household.
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There've been 52 million abortions since Roe v. Wade. How many Steve Jobs have we lost?
His story is simply amazing. Here, he sums it up in less than 15 minutes - and note, though he reads a prepared text, you will find yourself hanging on every word:
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