Obama Demands We Worship Him With This Blood
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - March 16, AD 2012 3:01 PM MST
As received via email:
A picture began circulating in November. It should be 'The Picture of the Year,' or perhaps, 'Picture of the Decade.' It won't be. In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the US paper which published it, you probably would never have seen it.
The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by surgeon named Joseph Bruner.
The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive 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. Practicing at Vanderbilt Univ Med Ctr in Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.
During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision 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.*** (See correction below)
The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. 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.'
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 100 percent successful.
ObamaCare will not only prohibit and forbid such a surgery from ever taking place, it will demand the execution of babies like Samuel as "unfit" and "burdensome on the state".
I will not comply. I will NEVER submit.
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UPDATE: A keen reader emailed to say that while the photo above and the people involved are 100% real, the bit about the doctor saying that having his finger grasped was the most emotional moment of his life was dramatic flourish added by someone. So there you go. Just FYI.
BUT, this photo brought out a great point. I have received a couple of emails from horrible people - calling themselves conservatives - arguing that spending money on surgeries like the one on Baby Samuel is "economically unfeasible", and that children with defects are a drain on society that should be culled like livestock (someone actually said that in an email), and since healthcare is not a right, the surgery above should never be performed.
Okay, can you rebut this? You have to be able to, because there are plenty of atheist conservatives out there who see everything in terms of dollars and are utterly divorced from charity. You have to be able to rebut them with as much force as you would rebut an atheist liberal.
Here is the rebuttal:
While healthcare is not a right, it is a service commodity that can be purchased or *donated* freely. Doctors can choose to donate their skill and expertise to any extent they choose. Additionally, every sovereign person has the RIGHT to donate their money, which is the fungible proxy for their work and creativity, to the Church, or to a secular charity that would then either cover the cost of such procedures entirely or in part. Ever hear of St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis?? Ever hear of the Catholic Church? THESE ENTITIES, and others, are the entities that are called to provide CHARITABLE HEALTHCARE, supported by the FREELY-GIVEN donations and tithes of the broad populace. These are the institutions to which people who find themselves in need should turn to - NOT THE GOVERNMENT.
Further, human beings are not animals. Human beings are created by God in His image, and are endowed by Him from the moment of their creation with inalienable dignity. Human beings are not livestock to be culled or economic units upon which cost-benefit analyses are performed. If you divorce economic theory from Christian Charity, you will descend into totalitarianism, even if your starting point is on the so-called "right" of the spectrum.
This, dear reader, is the nuance that the imbecilic Catholic bishops are missing. Some of them are outright Marxists and know what they are doing. Many of them are just breathtakingly stupid men who can't combine an understanding of economics with an understanding of Christlike Charity. If the government exists within a matrix of subsidiarity (power diminishing the higher up you go), and the economy is allowed to operate freely, AND the Church preaches the Gospel unflinchingly, the voluntary giving of the populace will always provide for babies like Samuel, and for the indigent.
If a totalitarian government is permitted to take over healthcare, babies like Samuel will be slaughtered in the name of "the good of the state", and the opportunity to engage in acts of charity will be eliminated by definition, because there will be no outlet for charitable healthcare, or care of the poor, or anything else - because the government has co-opted and coerced those activities AT THE POINT OF A GUN. And that is exactly what satan wants. An entire civilization legally incapable, and eventually spiritually unwilling to love their neighbor.
The only authentic love is love that is freely given. Marxism seeks to eliminate the ability to voluntarily love your fellow man, and to pit the masses against each other, jealous of the "consumption of resources" of their neighbor. In pitting the masses against each other, the sins of the oligarchs are hidden from the people by distraction.
