"My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur." That is how Dr Paul Nurse, an English geneticist, started his acceptance speech of the Nobel Prize. Only that not.
At the age of 57 Nurse needed his birth certificate and discovered that his parents were not his parents but his grandparents, his brothers his uncles, and his sister, her mother. At age 18 she had got pregnant by an anonymous serviceman, and her parents brought up the baby as their own child. Both her "mother" and "father" were born out of wedlock to unknown fathers.
Nurse says (with a lot of humor) that he always felt different from his relatives, none of them completed high school, and wonders how is that their rather simple parents were able to hide his genetic identity for fifty years, being as he is a Nobel Prize in Genetics. A poignant, fascinating "family secrets" kind of true story.
PS: The boy sitting next to me in high school looked exactly like Paul Nurse. He was a rather short, strongly muscled, blond guy. A very friendly, good natured, likeable fellow. His family name was Killer (true!) and they were of German origin.
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In today's world, he would have been aborted.
Food for thought.
Anon.
Not only him, but his grandmother and grandfather too.
anon said...
In today's world, he would have been aborted.
Judging by the number of single mothers, no.
Although this is not yet true of the US, the abortion industry is very active in Europe, and elsewhere in the Caucasian world. It is an integral part of the Death Culture, and its practitioners are celebrated, given awards, honorary degrees, etc.
When our culture, and our people, finally go extinct (which is not far off) let nobody say that it was due to anything other than our own fault.
Anon.
Although this is not yet true of the US, the abortion industry is very active in Europe,
Every year there are 1.5 million abortions in the USA - source. Northern(0.4), southern (0.8) and western Europe (0.4) have 1.6 million abortions per year, about equal to North America.
Here in the US Ted Kennedy has worked to keep abortion legal and widely available for 30 years and he is celebrated by the media as a hero, and even given communion by the pope - source. Ted has the blood of 50 million innocent children on his hands and the party he leads has just been rewarded with a larger majority in Congress.
Second, you underestimate the influence of the American Left on Europe. After WW2 we were considered the leader of the free world and since the US was in liberal hands a large part of Europe imported and expanded on our liberalism.
The Boer made the mistake of thinking that because the US had a large Black population that our government would sympathize with them during the Cold War and would take their side. Don't make the same mistake thinking we are some beacon of sanity in this world compared to Europe. Heck, America just elected an illegal alien from Kenya with a Muslim middle name for president, this country is either insane, suicidal or has a death wish.
If we are really exert the kind of universal cultural influence that J and a few others claim then we will have a lot to answer for when we stand before God.
6:33 AM
Without doubt, the USA really exerts a dominant universal cultural influence all over humanity. We all dance to your tune. Even desert Arabs in Saudia, one of the world's most closed society, are dancing to your (American) tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO8AEp4ZY_s
Besides the murder, what's so bad about abortion?
Besides the murder, what's so bad about abortion?
WTF? Rashkov, my sarcasm dectector isn't working, so I hope that is a sarcastic remark I didn't get.
Simply put, I am not interested in a traditional debate on abortion, but an overview of the various arguments against it.
I think that depending on the stage of pregnancy, "murder" can be debatable, but I accept your view as such and am wondering if there are sociological or other kinds of arguments against abortion.
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