There is no shortage of liberals who will spit on the ground and despise this lovely boy for entertaining that thought.
Hate-filled weirdos.
If I remember correctly, a dispute over this photo was the primary reason for Matt Drudge’s departure from Fox News.
What a great kid. I love his optimism and his spirit. I’m glad to know he’s proud of that picture...he’s right. It probably did convince many, many mothers against abortion.
It won’t make that much of a difference. Millions of pro-choicers are complete sociopaths. One cannot expect human empathy from the inhuman.
Awesome story....Awesome Kid....Obama would have killed him.
I wish they would have reposted the picture to go with the story.
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See #18. Thanks for posting this!
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Bravo for Samuel. Bravo. A great testament.
Thanks for this post, Rhema. It has made my day!!
May God help us on this National Day of Prayer to turn this country back to a nation that respects and protects every human life from conception to natural death.
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Hand of Hope (remarkable photo of 21 wk old baby)
Treating the Tiniest (pro-life issue benefits from advances in fetal surgery)
An Update on Samuel Armas "The Hand of Hope"
Photo of Unborn Baby’s Hand Continues to Change Hearts and Lives
Michael Clancy: The Photographer Whose Amazing Pro-Life Picture Changed the World
Ten Years Later, Boy's 'Hand of Hope' Continues to Spark Debate [Samuel Armas update]
That Little Hand from the Womb: Samuel Armas still Reaching Out for Life
How does sourcing something from Fox News translate into an LA Times article? I’m baffled.
Dr. Joseph P. Bruner
Dr. Joseph P. Bruner, director of the Vanderbilt fetal diagnosis and therapy program, indicated the photo has less significance for him.
Apparently fetal surgeons agree that their patients feel pain since anesthesia is given to both the mother and her child, although Bruner, who has performed 80 in utero spina bifida operations, continues to abort fetuses with the disease at the woman's request -- "an increasingly difficult position to be in," the doctor has said. "Because we are performing surgery to improve the lifestyle of fetuses who have spina bifida, it is difficult to justify an operation that could also take that life away," he said. "As we walk through this mine field, society is going to have to take a good, hard look at itself, because it is untenable to hold both views."
Bruner has estimated that about half of women in the United States who discover they are carrying a fetus with spina bifida choose abortion.
Samuel Armas, the infant whose in utero surgery made history after a photo of the pre-born baby grasping the finger of his surgeon through an opening in Mrs. Armas' uterus energized pro-life groups and led to Matt Drudge's departure from Fox News, was born without fanfare.
Journalist Matt Drudge, author of the Drudge Report, attempted to use Baby Samuel's famous photo on his Fox News Network television show, but was forbidden to do so by network management.
"He was using this photo [also seen in] the National Enquirer as a jumping-off point to talk about partial-birth abortion," said Fox News spokesman Brian Lewis. "It was a picture of an emergency operation for spina bifida. We thought it was a blatant misrepresentation. It was a straight editorial decision."
WorldNetDaily columnist and Associate Editor Elizabeth Farah cautioned the network about its reason for censoring the picture.
"Would you have allowed Matt to make his point by displaying a picture of a different pre-birth child -- this one a victim of abortion?" she asked.
"If memory serves, no picture of an aborted baby's body or video has ever been seen in an establishment paper or on an establishment network," Farah continued. "The word censorship comes to mind."