Posted on 01/03/2013 5:53:21 AM PST by NYer
January 2, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) When Alicia Atkins posted a photo taken by her husband during her recent c-section on Facebook, she thought it would only be viewed by a handful of friends. Instead it has drawn the attention of thousands of complete strangers, as well as the media.
The remarkable photo shows Alicias newborn daughter, Nevaeh (heaven spelled backwards) reaching out and grasping the gloved fingers of a doctor.
Already the photo has been viewed thousands of times, and is rapidly being shared on Facebook.
We didn’t think we were going to get such positive feedback, Alicia recently told a local news station. We thought we would get more negative, That’s disgusting.
Instead everybody just thought it was the best thing in the world.
Alicia posted her photo on December 26. At the time she wrote:
This was 10 weeks ago when I was having my c-section and Dr. Sawyer broke my water and my daughter reached up out of my stomach and grabbed the Dr.‘s finger and my hubby caught this special moment.
I am in awe of this photo, Alicia said, adding, Something to remember forever.
The happy mom also thanked her obstetrician and said she has had the photo printed on canvas to give to the doctor.
Alicias husband, Randy, described the moment he took the photo. The doctor called me over and said, Hey, she’s grabbing my finger, Randy told azfamily.com.
So I ran over there and just grabbed the shot, and I was just in awe looking at it. It was such an amazing picture.
The photo bears a striking resemblance to another, even more famous (as well as controversial) photo, taken by photographer Michael Clancy. That photo shows a tiny fist of a 21-week-old unborn baby emerging from his mothers womb and grasping a doctor’s finger during fetal surgery.
Clancy, who was hired to cover the surgery by USA Today, has since gone on to become active in the pro-life movement.
Me, too, and I teach it to my children. There’s no better skill to help you figure out what your sentences are really saying, as opposed to what you wanted to say. This was important when I was editing nuclear weapons safety manuals for the Navy.
Many students, especially boys, respond well to the visual-structure, spatial-relations nature of the traditional diagramming process. It lights up all different parts of their brains, so to speak ... and they can also have fun moving the phrases and clauses around to end up with things like having a c-section on Facebook ;-).
>>unviable tissue mass, eh?>>
Agreed! Many years ago a nurse with whom I worked told me that abortion was all right because the tiny mass of tissue was not viable. I had never heard the term before, and ever since wished that I had responded that the tine mass of tissue WOULD be become viable if left in the womb to grow. I liken it to a tiny flower seed popping out of the ground. If yanked out and tossed aside it was no longer viable, but if left in the ground it would become a flower.
Keep in mind that a vast majority of Ed majors dropped out of the Yogic Meditation and Macrame programs due the overly stringent course requirements.
Excellent, and a very happy surprise - thank you.
It's not. How I ended up learning diagramming in the 1970s, I don't know, because it was already "out." Maybe it was just a fluke, along with my also learning traditional phonics when most students weren't.
Today, they don't even learn basic parts of speech, in many cases. A few years ago, I found that one of my daughters couldn't identify a subject and a verb; my older daughter, who was in community college said, "Neither can half the people in my English class."
For the younger daughter, I bought a 1st grade English workbook, and we went back to start!
I went through a vaginal birth and a C-section (yea my wife was there too). I’ll tell you the vb was much more fun.
All my students so far have been more successful in the language-skills area than in math. I don’t know if it’s just their abilities, or because I’d much rather scramble dependent clauses with them than torture us all with Algebra II.
My oldest is 21 (a gunner in the Coast Guard), and the youngest is almost 1, so I’ll be homeschooling for pretty much the rest of my life. If the global economic collapse hits, we’ll just add “farming the back yard” to the curriculum!
It was the first image that crossed my mind. Pretty cool story.
Thanks for posting this, NYer, and thanks for the ping, Buckeye! Good glory, that girl’s got a grip!
I think classical literature and John Wayne movies produced the Gunner. Also at least a hundred episodes of “Magnum, P.I.”: she’ll probably go into law enforcement as a civilian, if she ever gets out of the Coast Guard. She also does travel writing, had quite a following on FR when she was on a cutter in the Pacific.
"ALL OUT OF LOVE"
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Its twenty one weeks and the baby is ill
But what is the doctor to do?
Hes there in the womb and there isnt much hope
A miracle soon comes true
Mom says Operate
because Samuel needs help
The whole thing is very well planned
The doctors surprised when his finger is grabbed
My God, it is Samuels hand
tiny hand"
Theyre not tissue mass
they are not a choice, now
Come join if you will
by raising your voice now
Theyre not tissue mass
my God, they are babies
Abortion is wrong
its got to be stopped somehow
For too many years many babies like him
Were ripped from their safe mothers womb
Purveyors of death taking innocent life
Hell waits for those in that room
Theyre selfish and cruel
they are evil indeed
How many more babies must die?
We cant turn our heads
we all have to stand up
We hear the angels cry
angels cry
Theyre not tissue mass
they are not a choice, now
Come join if you will
by raising your voice now
Theyre not tissue mass
my God, they are babies
Abortion is wrong
its got to be stopped somehow
Oh, how many more must die
can't you hear angels cry?
How many more must die
can't you hear angels cry?
Theyre not tissue mass
they are not a choice, now
Come join if you will
by raising your voice now
Theyre not tissue mass
my God, they are babies
Abortion is wrong
its got to be stopping
Theyre not tissue mass
they are not a choice, now
Come join if you will
by raising your voice now
Theyre not tissue mass
my God, they are babies
Abortion is wrong
its got to be stopping
Theyre not tissue mass
they are not a choice, now
Come join if you will
by raising your voice now
Theyre not tissue mass
my God, they are babies
Abortion is wrong
its got to be stopping
Diagram all you want, the texting genie is out of the bottle, and you won't be putting it back. Auto spell checkers that seem to change the words after you hit post are still useful, but unforgiving.
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