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.
Ping!
unviable tissue mass, eh?
Life...
This little girl is going to have a sense of humor... she is already “pulling the doctor’s finger”. LOL!
ROTFLMAO!!
Just a mass of undetermined protoplasm - NOT!!!!
Abortion is one of the greatest evils ever fostered on the American Public by the radical left.
My niece did almost the same thing. She was just born and put in the “warmer” (not sure what else to call it) and she reached out to her sister’s out-streatched hand. it was a stunning moment to see them holding hands.
Awesome! I saw the first photo mentioned and this just proves that abortion needs to be eliminated.
She had a c-section on Facebook? Sounds uncomfortable.
I suggest that the decline of journalism began when schools stopped teaching sentence-diagramming.
Ping to an amazing moment.
Controversial? What controversy? It's a preborn grabbing a doctors hand. How can it be "debated?" What?
Let us not forget that Fox News effectively sacked Drudge for wanting to show a similar photo on the air and simply asking ‘what does this say about life?’
It was controversial enough for Drudge to break his TV contract, If I remember correctly???
He was not allowed to use it and said so. That added to the distribution and was a good way to make it famous. I still wish he had stayed on TV.
I loved diagramming sentences in school!
I read that the doctor stated that the photo was staged and impossible since both patients were sedated.
It is believed that the doctor was protecting himself from malpractice since it could have been proven that not enough sedative was used.
The pro-abortion types are in a tizzy about this new photo claiming it too is a fake. It takes either incredible evil, willful ignorance or both to be that pro-infanticide.
{The picture became a sensation as a forwarded email especially among opponents of abortion. The surgeon, Dr. Bruner, told USA Today in 2000 that the picture was being treated like an urban legend and that he’d even received a report that a team of medical experts had called it a hoax. Bruner confirmed that the surgery and the photo were real but said that it was “not true” that the baby reached out of the womb and grabbed his hand, as some of the forwarded emails alleged. “Samuel and his mother, Julie, were under anesthesia and could not move,” he said. “The baby did not reach out. The baby was anesthetized. The baby was not aware of what was going on.”}
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/babysamuel.htm
:) and hope for the future....
She has got some man hands.
>>I suggest that the decline of journalism began when schools stopped teaching sentence-diagramming.>>
Absolutely agreed! I once asked a teacher why they eliminated the diagraming and was told, “Oh, that’s so old fashioned.”
When my kids ran into trouble with their sentence structure I taught each of them the diagramming method. They all improved dramatically.
I suspect that some educators introduce “new” methods of teaching only to appear to be ahead of the others and get promotions.
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