Michael Clancy, the photographer who snapped the photo in 1999 of Baby Samuel Armas reaching out of his mother's uterus to hold the finger of his surgeon, attended a pregnancy care center banquet last month, where he and Samuel's mother Julie spoke.
Wrote Michael in an email to me, "It was a God moment when at the end of her presentation, Samuel, at seven years old, climbed the stairs and took his place beside her at the podium. A standing ovation ensued and it was one of several times that night I more than teared up, I cried."
Here is a photo of Samuel and Michael, taken in March 2007.
See previous House blog posts here, here, here, and here.
Comments:
AAAWWWW,How sweet.Samuel is growing up to be such a QT!
Posted by: momof3 at April 11, 2007 1:30 PMHe is just adorable!
Posted by: Bethany
at April 11, 2007 2:18 PMI've often thought that there are few better pro-life poster children -- in the truest sense of the term -- than Samuel.
Posted by: John Jansen at April 11, 2007 2:44 PMThat kid doesn't have anything on me. When I was a fetus, I wrote the Great American novel, composed a symphony, drafted a plan to colonize Mars, and invented PowerPoint all on my mother's uterine wall.
Too bad my sisters had to scribble all over my masterworks when they were in there after me.
Posted by: Lando the Great at April 11, 2007 6:09 PMLando,
Peaked early did ya?
All down hill from there, eh?
Posted by: MK at April 11, 2007 6:25 PMLando the fake strikes again!
Posted by: momof3 at April 11, 2007 7:02 PMI rewrote the novel after I got out of that cramped uterus, but I could never seem to get it right. Maybe it was because my mom thought all my frustrated screaming meant I was hungry and kept jamming milk down my throat.
Plus, 13 publishing companies rejected the book as "too cerebral." Whatever that means.
Basically, the world just wasn't ready for me.
Basically, the world just wasn't ready for me.
What, and no one thought of abortion?
Posted by: MK at April 11, 2007 7:24 PMlol
Posted by: Bethany at April 11, 2007 8:29 PM"Too bad my sisters had to scribble all over my masterworks when they were in there after me."
OMG!! That just made me laugh so hard I woke my daughter up!!
Either Lando finally said something funny or I'm delusional because it is 1AM here!
I just need to know if there is any support group for being addicted to this website! I'm not getting any sleep any more!
Jill -
The picture is beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing it. I always wondered what happend to that boy.
Posted by: Valerie at April 12, 2007 12:03 AMLando,
On another post you asked me what a soul is. I said I would answer. That exchange itself requires that that two souls exist. I know it's really going to be a strain for you, but not nearly as bad as a pro-deather suffering from a bout of Fetally Induced Autonomy Theft (FIAT) more sanely known as pregnancy, or Baby Maybe Whining (BMW). I'm just trying to be as creative as SOMG (but that's not a car is it?) Shoot!
Here's my answer: Look in the mirror, look into your own eyes, do you see your soul? (That's not a trick question).
Now look deeply into another's eyes, do you see a soul?
If you comprehended what I just asked you to do, you have a soul. If you actually did what I asked you to do, you have a soul. If you didn't do what I asked you to do, you have a soul.
Now go try it with your cocker spaniel or goldfish. Ask them to go look into their own eyss and then another's eyes (not yours, it's too risky). Do they have a soul? Let's see, human animal = soul, non-human animal = no soul.
Do you understand now or do you not have a soul or are you non-human?
I'll answer your other brilliant questions later.
Posted by: His Man at April 12, 2007 1:47 AM
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
