Given the timing, I would think the Church looked at every angle before making this decision.
I’m sure.
The question was: was the procedure expedient or necessary? The Church thinks they acted without all due care; they think they were careful. It may be that the hospital has a cultural clash, that they have doctors who really don’t think that the unborn child—especially at an early age— is a person. Or maybe it boiled down to this: if they let the mother die, they probably would get sued—and lose—in a secular court. or Kill the baby, and know they probably would not be sued or if they did get sured, that a secular course would not convict. Bet there were lawyers involved in this “medical” decision, or at least behind the protocol they followed.