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It's pretty simple. Hurt babies=large jury verdicts. It's just impossible to win that one in court, no matter what you do. The legal standard for medical malpractice is more than flexible enough to allow virtually any jury to find against a doctor whose actions (even with informed consent) ended up harming a fetus in utero. It's not so much as social issue as it is a legal, malpractice issue. If we had a system that didn't encourage people to be so litigious and didn't place so much discretion with juries, doctors might be a bit more willing to be flexible in that regard.
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