"In the decision to abort, the equal dignity of mother and her baby were not both upheld," Olmsted said at a news conference announcing the decision. "The mother had a disease that needed to be treated. But instead of treating the disease, St. Joseph's medical staff and ethics committee decided that the healthy, 11-week-old baby should be directly killed."
They didn’t say what was needed to treat the disease which in the article said was high blood pressure. They didn’t say what caused it. The mother could have died before the treatment (whatever it was) took effect thereby killing both.