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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a  time when the husband would decide whose life the doctor would save during childbirth, mother or baby. My parents told us about it. It was Dads choice.[/quote]

That's because the mothers were knocked out during delivery and so couldn't be asked.[/quote]

The women were awake when they came in! Wives didn't have the same rights in a marriage. Husbands could decide if the wife or childs life was more valuable, it was male doctors offering the life or death choice to the man. My mother is still furious when she talks about it.[/quote]

Yes, of course they were awake when they came in.  They were knocked out for delivery, which is when the "which life" question would arise.  This was an era before anything like advance consent existed.

A woman could refuse the general anesthesia.  My grandmother had six kids and all but one, her second, were delivered without.  This was in the forties and fifties.  In the one case, she was furious for years the doctor refused to respect her preference.[/quote]

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