This entire thread is ponderous. Please go back and re-read the thread and don't make false accusations. In the (probably bs) scenario I was commenting on, The choice appeared to be "Baby won't survive regardless. Mother may survive if we remove it now." Such a proceedure is permitted by the Catholic Church.
In the movie The Cardinal the future cardinal's sister gets pregnant out of wedlock. When it is time for the baby to be born the doctors say its head is too big and they need to crush the baby's skull to save the mother. The future cardinal, following Catholic teaching, refuses to give his approval. Later in the movie you see a little girl who is alive because of his decision--but her mother is dead.
Never saw it, but apparently the producer never heard of Julius Ceasar, who was born (not-coincidentally) by ceasarian section some 600 years before the first Catholic Cardinal.
Julius Caesar was not born by caesarian section. The name "Caesar" was a cognomen used by a branch of the Julii long before he was born. If the first one to get the cognoment was born by caesarian section, it was long before the famous Julius Caesar.