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Comment author: tut 27 December 2009 11:59:49AM *  2 points [-]

as long as the ... mother does not starve, the child should be delivered.

Good medicine does a bit more than that. If the only thing you do is "not starve" the probability is somewhere between 1/3 and 2/3 that the child will die. Quite possibly killing the mother as well.

ETA: Not doing things can also be hard, if the consequences are unpleasant enough

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