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Don't tell us that our God isn't an awesome God!!!  

And don't say that life does not begin in the womb!!!

Sorry the above story has some true but it is not completely accurate

Please review what snopes reports on this story

http://www.snopes.com/photos/medical/thehand.asp

Life In the Womb!

 'The Hand of Hope.'

A picture began circulating in November that should be 'the Picture of the Decade', 'The Picture of the Year',   or perhaps, 'The Picture of the Century!' But it won't be! In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the US newspapers which published it, you probably would have never seen it.

The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and he would not have survived if removed from his mother's womb. Little Samuel's mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta . She knew of Dr. Bruner's remarkable surgical procedure, whom practices at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN.

 The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by this surgeon named Dr. Joseph Bruner, who performed this special operation on 19 Aug 1999   while the baby was still in the womb.

During the procedure,     Dr. Bruner removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision to operate on the baby. As Dr. Bruner was completing the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon's finger. Dr. Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile. [This is alleged.]

The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The editors titled the picture, 'The Hand of Hope.' The text explaining the picture begins, 'The tiny hand of 21-week- old baby 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!'.

Little Samuel's mother said they 'wept for days' when they saw the picture. She said, 'The photo reminds us pregnancy isn't about disability, or an illness, it's about a little person. 'Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation was 100 percent successful.

{Samuel was the 54th successful fetal operation performed by Dr. Bruner's team.}

Now see the actual picture, and it is very awesome andincredible.

The world needs to see this one!