Unborn Foetus On Operation

For those who are faint-hearted or afraid of blood, please avoid looking at the photo below.

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The picture shows a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by a surgeon named Joseph Bruner.

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Do you see the tiny hand of the foetus grasping the doctor’s finger?

The foetus was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother's womb. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Dr. Joseph Bruner performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb. During the procedure, the doctor makes a small incision on the uterus to operate on the baby.

As Dr. Bruner completed 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.

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."

The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The picture has drawn thousands’ attention when it was released. Indeed the photograph and many of the texts which often accompany it seem to support this view including the account of the photographer Michael Clancy:

"As a doctor asked me what speed of film I was using, out of the corner of my eye I saw the uterus shake, but no one's hands were near it. It was shaking from within. Suddenly, an entire arm thrust out of the opening, then pulled back until just a little hand was showing. The doctor reached over and lifted the hand, which reacted and squeezed the doctor's finger. As if testing for strength, the doctor shook the tiny fist. Samuel held firm. I took the picture! Wow!

It happened so fast that the nurse standing next to me asked, "What happened?"

"The child reached out," I said.

"Oh. They do that all the time," she responded. "

On the other hand, another source shows Dr. Bruner’s reaction, denying that the baby reached out and grabbed his finger.

"The baby did not reach out," Dr Bruner said.

"The baby was anesthetized. The baby was not aware of what was going on."

He also stated, “Depending on your political point of view, this is either Samuel Armas reaching out of the uterus and touching the finger of a fellow human, or it’s me pulling his hand out of the uterus … which is what I did.”

So, was it real?

Never mind. As long as little Samuel recovered from the complications after the amazing operation. Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation was 100 percent successful. Thank God!!
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