Subject: The Hand of Hope

The miracle of medicine, and why we work so hard to make a difference...

"THE HAND"

A picture began circulating in November. It should be "The Picture of the Year," or perhaps,"The Picture of the Decade." It won't be. In fact, unless you had obtained a copy of the paper you probably would never have seen it.

The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by a surgeon named Joseph Bruner. The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not have survived if removed from the mother's womb for surgery.

Little Samuel's mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta.

She knew of Dr. Bruner's remarkable surgical procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.

In the procedure, a C-section removes the uterus and the doctor makes a small incision to operate on the baby. During the surgery on little Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed, hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon's finger.

The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The editors titled the picture, "Hand of Hope." The text explaining the picture begins, "The tiny hand of 21-week-old fetus Samuel Alexander Armas emerges from the mother's uterus to grasp the finger of Dr. Joseph Bruner as if thanking the doctor for the gift of life."

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"The Hand" of the fetus. You can see the actual picture, and it is awesome...incredible. The pre-born can be aborted even at this stage of development by law. Here is the picture ...

The words of Psalm 109 come to my mind when a man can veto a bill banning this type of INFATICIDE!