Transplanting a Seattleite

While it was certainly terrible behavior to mock the Santorums' situation, I still think he is hypocritical, even if they didn't technically induce labor. They did both express willingness to do so if it were truly necessary, but Santorum does not support exceptions for the life/health of the mother for anyone else. Moreover, he doesn't seem to realize that other people facing late-term abortions are going through the same thing his family did, and shows no sympathy for them. (Incidentally, the people I know who've had late-term abortions, which, as with almost all such cases, were of much-wanted children, reacted much as the Santorums did in terms of mourning.)

Seems odd to me that the doctors did nothing to try to stop labor, actually (though I'm sure there's a good reason if we knew all the details). You would think that would be more likely to result in a malpractice suit than the other route. I had a kidney infection that sent me into early labor at 35 weeks, and they certainly gave me IV terbutaline then. Of course in that scenario the babies would probably have been fine either way.