Who Came Close To Being Aborted?

Abortion: Who came close
In this country abortion has been legal since the US Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade back in 1973. That's about 40 years. In that time millions of people who may have been born were not. I'm not really for or against abortion, I'm a guy so I'll never have to make that choice, but I was just wondering about it the other day and one thing I thought about was who wasn't aborted that went on to become important and memorable people. You know, those people who really made a difference to others and changed history.

Here is a list of at least some of them:
Andy Berlin                                       Anthony Williams
Aristotle                                             Art Linkletter
Bo Diddley                                         Buffy Sainte-Marie
Carl-Theodor Dreyer                         Charlotte Anne Lopez
Christina Crawford                            Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Crazy Horse                                       Dan O'Brien
Daunte Culpepper                              Dave Thomas
Debbie Harry                                     D.M.C.
Edgar Allan Poe                                Edward Albee
Eleanor Roosevelt                             Eric Dickerson
Faith Daniels                                     Faith Hill
Freddie Bartholomew                       George Washington Carver
Greg Louganis                                  Adolf Hitler
James MacArthur                             James Michener
Jean Jacques Rousseau                     Jesse Jackson
JESUS                                               Moses
Jett Williams                                     Jim Palmer
John J. Audubon                               John Hancock
John Lennon                                     Langston Hughes
Larry Ellison                                     Lee Majors
Leo Tolstoy                                       Les Brown
Lynnette Cole                                   Malcolm X
Mark Acre                                        Matthew Laborteaux
Melissa Gilbert                                 Michael Reagan
Nancy Reagan                                  Nat King Cole
Nelson Mandela                               Patrick Labyorteaux
Peter and Kitty Carruthers               President Gerald Ford     
President William Clinton                Priscilla Presley
Ray Liotta                                         Reno
Sarah McLachlan                             Scott Hamilton
Sen. Paull H. Shin                            Sen. Robert Byrd
Steve Jobs                                        Surya Bonaly
Tim Green                                        Tim McGraw
Tom Monaghan                                Tommy Davidson
Victoria Rowell                                Wilson Riles

This is a pretty dang impressive list. I dare anyone to say that there is no one from this list that has in some way affected your life. You'd have to live under a rock or something if this were true. Of these 70 people I can personally claim to have been affected in one way or another by about 20 of them. This makes me wonder too about all those people who were aborted. If they had grown up and become historically significant figures as well. Have presidents been aborted? Have movie stars been aborted? Sports stars? Singers? Mass murderers? Anything is possible, and we will never know. We only know of who lived and what they did. From Jesus to Adolf Hitler. There are quite a range of accomplishments possible when it comes to living ones life.
(source: http://www.topix.com/forum/who/TNSPH89CFKQGD6KSF )