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| Samuel Armas |
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পৃথিবী বিখ্যাত
ছবিটি ২১ সপ্তাহ বয়সী অভূমিষ্ঠ স্যামুয়্যাল আলেক্সান্ডার আরমাস (জন্ম:
২ ডিসেম্বর ১৯৯৯) এর। ভূমিষ্ঠ
হওয়ার আগেই তার 'স্পাইনা
বাইফিডা' নামে
একটি রোগ ধরা পড়ে এবং এ জন্য তার অপারেশন করা জরুরি হয়ে পড়ে। কিন্তু গর্ভ
থেকে বের করে নিলে তাকে বাঁচানো যেত না। আলেক্সান্ডারের
মা জুলি আরমাস পেশায়
একজন সেবিকা। সে
কারণে তিনি ডা. বার্ণারের কথা জানতেন এবং অপারেশনে তার
ওপর ভরসা রাখেন। ডা. বার্ণার শিশুটিকে গর্ভে রেখেই
অপারেশন করেন। অপারেশন শেষে ডা. বার্ণার লক্ষ করলেন, ভূমিষ্ঠ
হওয়ার আগেই আলেক্সান্ডারের
হাত তার একটি আঙুল মুঠ করে ধরেছে।সেই অসাধারণ মূহুর্তের ছবি ক্যামেরায় তুলে রাখা হয়। পরে পত্রিকায় শিরোনাম হয়- 'আশার হাত' (Hand of Hope)।
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| Samuel Armas |
The tiny hand of 21-week-old Samuel Armas reaches out from his mother's womb to clasp the surgeon's finger. Samuel was about to undergo a spine operation designed to save him from serious brain damage. The surgery was carried out entirely through the tiny slit visible in the wall of the womb, and Samuel is believed to be the youngest fetus to undergo such an operation. At this age, tiny Samuel could still have been legally aborted, but thank God that this did not happen, and he was born on December 2, 1999. The above image was taken by photo-journalist, Michael Clancy, during an operation in America.
A 12/9/99 Message From Samuel's Parents :
Dear Friends and Family,
Samuel arrived on Thursday, Dec. 2 at 6:25 pm at Northside. Hospital weighing 5 lbs 11 oz and 20 1/2 " long. He was born at 36 weeks but came into the world screaming his head off! He did not have to spend any time in a neonatal unit and came home with us on Monday, Dec. 6. After viewing an ultrasound of his brain, Samuel's neurosurgeon was very optimistic as he does not have any hydrocephalus and the brain malformation has resolved. He is moving his legs very well from the hips and some from the knees. He was frank breech (folded in half) in the womb and the orthopedist feels that he has a good chance for walking. He
will begin physical therapy next week in order to work out some of the stiffness in his legs that was a result of his being folded in half in the womb. He is also nursing very well.
Thank you all for your prayers and support. We are happier than we ever dreamed possible!
More Of The Armas Story From 'federalist.com' website :
After years of trying to have children, Julie and Alex Armas, were finally pregnant with little Samuel. But in July [editor - of 1999], received the devastating news that he had a spinal condition that would probably leave their child with severe handicaps from birth. Julie searched the Internet for help and found a website giving details of pioneering surgery being carried out by a team of specialists at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
Though considered high risk, the surgery was successful and little Samuel arrived December second, about a month before he was expected! He weighed 5 lbs., 11 ounces, and was 20.5 inches long, and was so healthy that he went go home with his parents a few days later. Samuel does have some weakness and motor sensation problems below his knees, and has begun physical therapy. His physician is optimistic that he will, in time, be able to walk.
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Famed photographer Michael Clancy, the earliest human encounter, and the cover-up
“I didn’t really want kids,” says Michael Clancy. A terrible, abusive childhood left him with no desire to have children of his own. And when it came to the subject of aborting children in the womb, he sat on the sidelines, believing that it was a woman’s issue. “I thought that as a man, it wasn’t my fight!” he said. That was until he witnessed the extraordinary event that happened 12 years ago: the event that changed his life forever.
Michael Clancy is the photojournalist who was hired by USA Today to record the fetal surgery of 21-week-old Samuel Armas. According to Clancy, during the surgery to correct for spina bifida, he saw that the mother’s uterus began to shake from within, and as he watched, the tiny fist “came through the opening with a fury” to reveal the whole arm. The doctor lifted the tiny hand, and Samuel then “reacted by squeezing the doctor’s gloved finger.” As if to test for strength, the doctor, Joseph P. Bruner, shook the fist, but “Samuel held firm,” according to Clancy.
But immediately after the surgery, Clancy was shocked when the doctor asserted to others that the event was staged and that he had purposely pulled the baby’s hand out of the womb to provide a photo op. “Untrue!” says Clancy as he suddenly found himself in the center of a very difficult situation.
“I knew this was important! You can look back and see the earliest human interaction! This was history…I knew as a journalist that history is important whether we like it or not!”
It came down to Clancy’s word against the doctor, who, suggests Clancy, needed to protect his reputation from the evidence that Samuel had come out from under the anesthesia too early – an occurrence, Clancy says, that “happens[,] and we all know it. It [anesthesia] was experimental for mother and baby at the time.”
It would be reasonable to think that the man who snapped such an amazing photo would receive a Pulitzer Prize. But the controversy served to end Clancy’s journalistic reputation and the twelve-year career he loved.
Ever since, he has been speaking to people about the event and the historic and political impact on the journalistic community at the time.
You know, you want a ticker tape parade, you want a Pulitzer Prize but I have learned that sometimes it’s the journey…sometimes it’s the one heart a day that we need to win this battle.
When asked what caused him to change from being uninvolved in the pro-life movement to becoming someone who fights for the unborn, Clancy says, “I didn’t want to be in this position. It’s tough to be in the middle of this. It was Samuel who did it… I have a lot of questions – did he feel the cold air or see light? In my opinion, he came out of the anesthesia and he did feel pain for whatever duration that was… [I wonder,] what motor senses did that baby use for his fist to come flying up?” But what did Dr. Bruner and medical science learn that day? Says Clancy, “Not to let a photographer in [to the operating room]!”
What Clancy saw in that operating room was all the proof he needed to change his life. “Samuel proved to us that the child is a reactive human being – it’s as simple as that and it is important to fight for!”
“I want to prove that this picture is real because it is history. Someday, it is going to happen again, and people will look back and say that I was telling the truth the whole time!”
To know more:
Samuel: Hand of Hope
http://trusthismercy.wordpress.com/tag/baby-samuel-armas/
http://www.prolifeinfo.ie/life/foetal-surgery/samuel/
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