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** Doc Robbins on ''Series/{{CSI}}'' got the rare-for-an-M.E. chance to save a life when he realized that a teenage girl who'd hanged herself just minutes before he and Nick arrived on-scene still had a living fetus inside her. A hasty C-section with improvised tools saved the baby, and the team tracked down the ex-boyfriend, who had no idea the girl had been pregnant when they broke up but is still willing to be a father to their daughter.
** ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "[[Recap/CSINYS05E09 The Box]]," a young pregnant woman agrees to let a childless couple adopt her baby in return for them paying for her medical care and living expenses but changes her mind shortly before her delivery date. The husband angrily shoves her while they're on the second-floor landing and she falls down the stairs, breaking her neck. Figuring an ambulance couldn't get there in time, he grabs a large kitchen knife and cuts her open to get the baby out. He then hides her body in the trunk of his car for a few days before abandoning it in a junkyard.

* Doc Robbins on ''Series/{{CSI}}'' got the rare-for-an-M.E. chance to save a life when he realized that a teenage girl who'd hanged herself just minutes before he and Nick arrived on-scene still had a living fetus inside her. A hasty C-section with improvised tools saved the baby, and the team tracked down the ex-boyfriend, who had no idea the girl had been pregnant when they broke up but is still willing to be a father to their daughter.

* The French film ''À l'intérieur'' (''"Film/{{Inside}}"'') centers on an insane woman who wants to cut out the main character's baby, intent on having it replace her own dead child.

* The ''Series/{{ER}}'' episode "Love's Labor Lost" culminated in a horrifying emergency C-section. [[http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-er-labor29-2009mar29,0,4685319.story One TV critic]] says it changed how she thought about her body and life in general.
-->As the episode unfurls, one thing goes wrong and then another -- the baby's shoulder gets stuck, the mother's blood pressure drops -- until a panicked Greene performs a brutal emergency C-section. "What did you use, a chainsaw?" asks the obstetrician when she finally shows up. Although the baby is saved, the woman dies, her body transformed from living person into scooped-out husk in a matter of moments.
** Another episode has Kerry Weaver doing one of these in an ambulance that has crashed due to a torrential rainstorm.

* In the fourth ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' novel, [[spoiler:Edward rips open Bella's womb to retrieve their unborn child from her body with his teeth because both the nature of the pregnancy and the state of Bella's body didn't allow for any conventional birthing process to take place]].

Simply put, a Traumatic C-Section is when a pregnant woman has her unborn child crudely ripped or cut from her body. If done well (being prone to SpecialEffectFailure) it can result in Grade A NauseaFuel.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. When LivingShip Moya gives birth to a Leviathan gunship, it's weaponry gets this smaller Leviathan stuck in Moya's birth canal, so it has to fire its main gun on a low-intensity setting to break free. Through the main drama is that Chiana is trying to assist the birth and has to OutrunTheFireball from this so-called "low" setting.

-->As the episode unfurls, one thing goes wrong and then another -- the baby's shoulder gets stuck, the mother's blood pressure drops -- until a panicked Greene performs a brutal emergency C-section. "What did you use, a chain saw?" asks the obstetrician when she finally shows up. Although the baby is saved, the woman dies, her body transformed from living person into scooped-out husk in a matter of moments.

** In the sixth episode, Viserys's brother Prince Daemon is given the same choice with regards to his wife Laena and their child, but he's just shaken his head when they notice Laena has gotten up and gone outside to command her dragon to spare her the agony by immolating her.

* Puppet Combo's ''VideoGame/{{Bloodwash}}'' features a SerialKiller known as the Womb Ripper who does exactly what his name says to women. The ending reveals that [[spoiler:the killer was in fact a missing women thought to be one of the Ripper's victims. She was having an affair with a man and when she got pregnant, he tried to kill her. The woman survived but her baby didn't, and it made her snap and kill women who had what she didn't]].

* Sadly, this often occurred as a war crime in the past, with recorded incidents from the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857 to the Rape of Nanking in the 1930s, the Nazi concentration camps (where pregnant women would also be experimented on) and the [[http://orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/serbian_newmartyrs.aspx mass murders of Orthodox Serbs in the Jasenovac camp]] (by the Nazi-backed Catholic Croatian fascist Ustaše during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo).

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* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' [[spoiler:Lori goes into labor while hiding from walkers in the boiler room of a prison. Maggie then has to deliver the baby via a C-section using a crude hunting knife and Lori dies]]

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* Kane threatens to do this to Wendy in a ''Webcomic/{{Jack|DavidHopkins}}'' arc, as seen [[http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=959 here]].

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* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. When LivingShip Moya gives birth to a Leviathan gunship, it's weaponry gets this smaller Leviathan stuck in Moya's birth canal, so it has to fire its main gun on a low-intensity setting to break free. Through the main drama is that Chiana is DeliveryGirl and has to OutrunTheFireball from this so-called "low" setting.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1048 SCP-1048]] is an animate teddy bear that can make more of its kind using any random material, including a fetus it somehow removed from a dozing employee.

** More directly childbirth-related, the first episode of ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' has a SadisticChoice for King Viserys Targaryen: if the maesters don't intervene, ''both'' his wife Queen Aemma and their baby will die. Intervening would mean a C-section (while she's conscious) after which she will bleed to death -- an even worse death than the one she'd have if they do nothing -- but it could save the baby. He orders them to do it out of [[TheNeedsOfTheMany the need for an heir to the kingdom]]. His wife's belly is cut open (the scene is quite gruesome) to take the baby out, and she dies... and then it was AllForNothing in the end, as the baby dies too anyway a few hours after the birth. In the sixth episode, Viserys's brother Prince Daemon is given the same choice with regards to his wife Laena and their child, but he's just shaken his head when they notice Laena has gotten up and gone outside to command her dragon to spare her the agony by immolating her.

** More directly childbirth-related, the first episode of ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' has a SadisticChoice for King Viserys Targaryen: if they don't intervene, ''both'' his wife and baby will die. Intervening would mean a C-section (while she's conscious) after which she will bleed to death -- an even worse death than the one she'd have if they do nothing -- but it could save the baby. He orders them to do it out of [[TheNeedsOfTheMany the need for an heir to the kingdom]]. His wife's belly is cut open (the scene is quite gruesome) to take the baby out, and she dies... and then it was AllForNothing in the end, as the baby dies too anyway a few hours after the birth.

* ''In a Better World'', for a non-horror or exploitation film example.

* ''Film/EightBallClown'': At the beginning of the movie, 8-Ball has a pregnant woman in his basement. He uses a knife to cut open her belly, and pulls the baby out.

* One of the many endless gore scenes in ''The Coma-Brutal Duel'' involves a ripped out fetus being stomped on.

* The premise of ''The Clinic'' is that pregnant women are abducted by an underground organization, have their babies removed, and are made to kill each other in a twisted contest which prospective adopters use to judge which of the stolen babies they want.

** More directly childbirth-related, the first episode of ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' has a SadisticChoice for King Viserys Targaryen: if they don't intervene, ''both'' his wife and baby will die. Intervening would mean a C-section (while she's conscious) after which she will bleed to death--an even worse death than the one she'd have if they do nothing--but it could save the baby. He orders them to do it out of [[TheNeedsOfTheMany the need for an heir to the kingdom]]. His wife's belly is cut open (the scene is quite gruesome) to take the baby out, she dies... and then it was AllForNothing in the end, as the baby dies too anyway a few hours after the birth.

** Tiffany Hall not only murdered a pregnant mother and her unborn child in a failed attempt of this, but she also murdered the victim's other three children out of sadism. She was sentenced to death.

** More directly childbirth-related, the first episode of ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' has a SadisticChoice for King Viserys Targaryen: If they don't intervene, ''both'' his wife and baby will die. Intervening would mean a C-section (while she's conscious) after which she will bleed to death--an even worse death than the one she'd have if they do nothing--but it could save the baby. He orders them to do it. His wife's belly is cut open (the scene is quite gruesome) to take the baby out... and it was AllForNothing in the end, as the baby dies a few hours after the birth anyway.

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** More directly childbirth-related, the first episode of ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' has a SadisticChoice for King Viserys Targaryen: either his wife or his son can be saved, but not both. He orders his wife's belly to be cut open (the scene is quite gruesome) to take the baby out and she bleeds to death... and it was AllForNothing in the end, as the baby dies anyway and Viserys has to find another solution for a heir.

* A shocking but simultaneously fascinating example from an aquarium in New Zealand: [[https://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/shark-bites-pregnant-shark-in-stomach-saves-eight-shark-pups.html A SHARK was subjected to this trope by another shark]]. Apparently, no one knew the first shark was pregnant until the second one bit her and ripped her open. To everyone's astonishment, a few baby sharks swam out of their mother's wound and the aquarium staff immediately worked to rescue them and their mother, successfully getting the remaining babies out (there were eight in total) and patching up the mother's injuries, from which she has since recovered (this is a rare case of this trope having a ''happy'' ending). Cue the puns about sea-sections and nurse sharks.

* In ''VideoGame/MarthaIsdead'', [[spoiler:Giulia cuts open her sister’s corpse to confirm her pregnancy.]]

Historically most C-sections were performed after the mother had died in a last-ditch attempt to save the baby, resulting in a lot of overlap with BornFromADeadWoman.

Historically most C-sections were performed after the woman had died in an attempt to save the baby, resulting in a lot of overlap with BornFromADeadWoman.

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* ''Film/ForeverEvil'' has a random DreamSequence where an undead woman pulls out her demonic baby.