This is a Catholic hospital. There are Catholic rules. Anyone who wanted to kill a child to save a mother could have gone to any other hospital in the area which was non-Catholic, and would allow it.
This was rigged to provoke exactly the hysterical controversy which ensued. Women like me, who face the same threat, must have a sanctuary where our children will not be murdered in “self-defense” and where physicians will use their learning to give us both a chance, instead of regarding the innocent child as a predator.
In all likelihood, this woman's condition was so imminently life-threatening that the delay and stress involved in transferring her to another hospital would probably have killed her. I'm sure this Catholic hospital would have taken that easy way out if it could have. Emergency committee meetings can be done in just a few minutes, sometimes even with participants "meeting" in a telephone conference call, if there isn't time to get them together in person.