[cgk]

I would feel terrible, of course. As terrible as I do about the baby being killed. I am not a heartless person who sees only one view in this. I pray for all involved. We live in an age where women dying during childbirth is exceptionally rare. For the woman to die delivering a baby who is the result of rape would be the nightmare situation.

But, due to the severity of the woman's health - she never would have been allowed to proceed to delivering a full-term baby. She has a history of brain seizures, something (I don't know the terminology) in her skull to drain fluid from her brain, and takes anti-seizure medications.

The doctors cancelled the scheduled (court-ordered) abortion at 23 weeks of pregnancy, because the woman was in no immediate danger and the baby was developing normally. They reported this information back to the Judge, because they just couldn't deliver the baby, as a baby by C-section, without consent. I have no doubt if they had received the go-ahead, they would have delivered the baby and been able to assist it in any way possible to assure its survival as a preemie. They never received it (consent), which I find to be terribly sad.

[Nonstatist]

they would have delivered the baby and been able to assist it in any way possible to assure its survival as a preemie

Pretty risky circumstances, you must agree.

As far as I'm concerned, in this case, if its between the life of the mother and the life of the baby, I take the mother every single time out, even a "retarded" mother. She is a true victim here, assaulted and raped and impregnated against her will. Theres enough gray in this case to concede that reasonable people may disagree about what to do, don't you think, perhaps ?