Samuel Armas

Samuel Armas

"The Hand of Hope"

Samuel Armas was a unborn baby with a disease called spina bifida, a sometimes

fatal and typically severe brain and spinal cord anomaly, results from the spine failing to

close properly during the first month of pregnancy. If the baby survives, spina bifida often

leaves debilitating defects including accumulation of fluid in the brain (hydrocephalus),

and a host of devastating secondary conditions. Examples of secondary conditions

associated with spina bifida are latex allergy, tendinitis, obesity, skin breakdown,

gastrointestinal disorders, learning disabilities, attaining and retaining mobility,

depression, and social and sexual issues.

Samuel Armas was hope for many, in that he proved to the world, in which people

tried to simply hide under the rug, that people do in fact have souls even before they are

born. People feel that it is ok to kill unborn children due to abnormalities and the fact that

they would feel that the child would be unwanted and not have the quality of life in which

they think would be best for them. In which I completely disagree, no matter what the

problem is with the child, with all of our medical advances there is a better chance that

the child would survive many and most difficulties which cause the parents to want to kill

the child or have an abortion, and quality of life cannot be set by one person, but the only

one who can set there quality of life is, in fact themselves. Infanticide is wrong, even if

the ones committing this sin at the time do not feel that it is. God made us in his image,