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This really is awesome - so had to share with everyone.
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---------------------- Forwarded by Sandra R McNichols/HOU/ECT on 02/28/2000
09:05 AM ---------------------------

Lisa Berg
02/28/2000 09:00 AM

To: Christy Sweeney/HOU/ECT@ECT, Rebecca Cowart/HOU/ECT@ECT, Willie
Harrell/HOU/ECT@ECT, Sandra R McNichols/HOU/ECT@ECT,
John.Carver@AGNA.Zeneca.com
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Subject: Fwd: FW: Read the story before you look at picture

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY AWESOME !!! WE SERVE THE MOST WONDERFUL GOD !!!!

Subject: Read the story before you look at picture

Appreciating Life!!!

First read and then see the picture The picture appeared in the November
16
edition of "The National Enquirer." It should be "The Picture of the Year,"
or perhaps, "The Picture of the Decade." 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 survive if removed from the mother's womb. 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." That picture is graphic
reminder that growing in the womb of his or her mother is a baby. It is not
a "glob of tissue," or "product of conception." That pre-born baby is a
human being with all the emotions, will and personality of any human being.
That picture says it in a way that a thousand words cannot. Little Samuel's
mother said they "wept for days" when they saw the picture. She said, "The
photo reminds us my pregnancy isn't about disability or illness, it's about
a little person." That's what it's always been about.

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