Hope and Innocence

[Rosalinda]

This is a reflection on the amazing photograph of an infant during surgery for spina bifida while still in utero. [Note, there is some blood.]

But such hesitation or reluctance does not apply to Samuel Alexander Armas. In a photograph which some observers say should be the “Picture of the Decade,” we see the tiny hand of Samuel when he was a 21-week-old fetus reaching up through an incision in his mother’s uterus and grabbing and squeezing the finger of the surgeon who had just performed a life saving, though not life-forming, procedure.

article by Donald DeMarco at the Catholic Educator’s resource center.

catholiceducation.org/articles/abortion/ab0106.htm