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Here's the scenario:
A woman is in the hospital for complications with her pregnancy. The doctor tells her that if she gives birth to this baby, she will die. So the woman has two choices. She can kill her baby and live or she can give birth and die.

What does she do?

I don't know. Perhaps you can tell me what she did. I guess you like to dream up unlikely situations, like I do. :)

The scenario you mention is just one of the imaginative scenarios brought out in the late 60's to justify abortion.

It was used as a foot in the door, (by persons pretending they ONLY wanted to save women's lives), for abortion-on-demand (ie, killing a human for convenience).

Should the doctor follow the woman's directive and perform a partial birth abortion so the husband will not realize his wife had an affair?

How about this scenario--a baby is being born, breech. Her father is in the service overseas for the past 3 months. She is just beginning to emerge from the womb. The "still-legally-pregnant" woman doesn't realize, until that moment, that the female fetus is "racially mixed." The woman was sure she had taken adequate precautions, during a one night stand, nine months before. Her husband will know the child is not his.

Should the doctor follow the woman's directive and perform a partial birth abortion so the husband will not ealize his wife had an affair?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that skin color did not become apparant for some time after birth. I don't think that the doctor would be able to tell by the baby's feet what color his daddy is. In addition, what doctor would say to a woman in the middle of a breach birth, "Doesn't look like Daddy is who we thought."

What's wrong with the woman giving the child up for adoption and telling the husband the child died in birth? Considering the woman is already lying to her husband - he doesn't know she's had an affair. . . I would hope she would rather her conscience carry a second lie than the knowledge she killed her child.