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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Neither the mother or baby is actively dying. If either occurs, the doctors will provide medical care and save the mother’s life.

Complications can occur in pregnancy without the mother dying.[/quote]

Even if a fetus is "actively dying" they cannot act as long as there is a heartbeat. This has come up in spontaneous abortions (aka miscarriages) where a fetal heartbeat is detected. As long as that's there, they cannot intervene.

"actively dying" is referred to by medical professionals (hospice providers generally refer to this as the last 3 or so days of life), most often when referring to people for whom medical intervention is certainly possible but generally futile (e.g. the very elderly who do not have a DNR or whose family overrules the DNR) although certainly in a previously healthy adult, especially a young adult, they are going to do everything they can to reverse that, and depending on what is going on medically there can be a possibility of survival and even recovery. But it is also the case that obstetric complications can go from concerning to catastrophic in a very short point of time.

The way some people talk about this reminds me of the opioid users who, I hear, rely on Narcan to pull them back from the brink after getting as close as they can to that brink. It can work, or not. 
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