282RA, I hope it would be a rare case where the fetus life took precedence over the mother's. The couple's decision? I've known men who think so little of their wives that they would want a male heir saved instead of the wife, and an exhausted, likely drugged and confused woman is in no shape to make any such decision regarding her own life. The woman's life must always take precedence above all else. The only circumstance I can think of where a living mother might be put at risk to save her infant would be the case of a permanently braindead woman who has no chance of recovery anyway. I believe there was a case like this in the past five years.