On the recordSeptember 24, 1996
My question is a very simple question. The question, obviously, needs to be asked and, hopefully, at some point someone will answer me. That is, what will be the position of innocence if, in the performance of this procedure where the baby is delivered feet first, this birth canal, the entire baby's arms and legs, torso, are outside of the mother's womb completely, arms and legs moving outside the mother, all that is left in is the head, that is, when this procedure is performed and the baby is then killed, what if--which is not unknown from what I understand-- if, for some reason, when the shoulders were delivered the head were accidentally delivered, will the mother and the physician then have a right to choose whether that baby lives or not? Or, would they be responsible--would the physician have to do something to keep the baby alive, since it is now completely outside the mother?
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