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* There have been several instances of pregnant women being kidnapped and having their unborn children forcibly taken from their wombs, generally by women who've been faking their pregnancy and now need "proof" in the form of a newborn. A list of ten such cases in the [=US=] appears [[http://listverse.com/2008/09/20/10-cases-of-fetal-abduction-in-the-us/ here]].

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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* ''Literature/AThousandSplendidSuns'' features a variation involving what ''should'' be a normal medical caesarean. When Laila gives birth to her second child, her baby is in the breach position and so she needs a C-section to save its life. Unfortunately, the women’s hospital has limited supplies and so they will have to do it ''without anaesthesia''. Laila’s response? "Cut me open and give me my baby." Mariam is with her the whole time and thinks to herself how much she admires Laila for the amount of time that passes before she starts screaming in pain. [[spoiler:Laila and the baby both survive]].

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* On ''Series/GameOfThrones'', this happens during the Red Wedding. Robb Stark decided to MarryForLove, instead of marrying one of Lord Frey's daughters. So the first person to be killed as revenge was his pregnant wife, Talissa, who was stabbed right through her womb.

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* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', [[spoiler:The Boss]], ''during the invasion of Normandy'', went into labor. Naturally, being in the middle of a war zone without access to a proper medical facility, drastic measures needed to be taken. The most badass thing of all is that she performed the C-section ''on herself''. Out pops baby [[spoiler: Revolver Ocelot]], in the middle of a battle.

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

* 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.

-->'''Doctor Nick:''' Good news everybody, Caesar just invented the Caesarean! ''[whips out a large saw]''\\
'''Marge/Mary:''' Get him out of here!

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

* 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).

* In ''Druuna: Carnivora'', the eponymous character has a nightmare where she's heavily pregnant and trying to run away from a bunch of scary monsters before being rescued by a sinister group of {{Mad Doctor}}s who proceed to cut open her belly.

Compare ImperiledInPregnancy. A form of WombHorror.

* ''Film/DogBiteDog'', an excruciatingly violent Hong Kong movie, ends with the main character performing an impromtu C-section on his pregnant wife as she is dying from a fatal injury, in a last-ditch attempt to save the baby.

* In the ''Franchise/MassEffect's'' fic [[Fanfic/CrucibleMassEffect Crucible]], this was done to Amata, the wife of Gaius, Garrus and Shepard's son from the BadFuture. Amata was still alive when her stomach was cut open and her daughter was ripped out of it, still kicking and screaming before the Quarians shot the mother in the head (they also killed her son before that). After that, the baby was taken to a lab to be experimented on. Judging from [[NauseaFuel hundreds of dead Hybrid babies' bodies being tested,]] [[NightmareFuel cut apart]] [[MoralEventHorizon and preserved in that place]], Amata was not the first or only victim.

* A much milder example, in which the victim is a salmon, is mentioned in the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals''. Still, it's only brought up for just how disturbing it was for young Vetinari to see all those [[GrotesqueCute cute]] little otter cubs eating all those little salmon eggs...

* A ComicBook/SpiderMan storyline involved the ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote being captured by a survivalist group, which forcibly extracted five "seeds" from it to create five new symbiotes for the their super soldier project.
* One happens off-panel in the Nicaragua arc of ''ComicBook/FuryMyWarGoneBy'', led by ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' villain Barracuda during his military days. Fury is investigating Barracuda's activities, and finds the remains of a village destroyed by his Contra forces, with horribly mangled bodies everywhere, including a corpse of a pregnant woman who had her stomach cut open and her baby stomped on.

* In the ''Franchise/MassEffect's'' fic [[Fanfic/CrucibleMassEffect Crucible]], this was done to Amata, the wife of Gaius, Garrus and Shepard's son from the BadFuture. Amata was still alive when her stomach was cut open and her daughter was ripped out of it, still kicking and screaming before the Quarians shot the mother in the head (they also killed her son before that). After that the baby was taken to a lab to be experimented on. Judging from [[NauseaFuel hundreds of dead Hybrid babies' bodies being tested,]] [[NightmareFuel cut apart]] [[MoralEventHorizon and preserved in that place]], Amata was not the first or only victim.

* During a test screening of the ''Film/MyBloodyValentine3D'', a viewer asked if it was Megan's unborn child and not her heart that the miner cut out, since the camera doesn't linger on what was ripped out for very long. It was her heart, and director Patrick Lussier mentions how {{squick}}ed out he was by the baby assumption in the film's commentary.

* From the 13th century ''Literature/SagaOfTheVolsungs'': After seven years of pregnancy, King Rerir's wife orders her child be cut out of her body, even though she knows it will kill her. Thus, the hero Volsung is born.

** Another episode has Kerry Weaver doing one of these in an ambulance that has crashed due to a torrential rain storm.

* 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'd had no idea the girl'd been pregnant when they broke up but is still willing to be father to their daughter.

* There have been several instances of pregnant women being kidnapped and having their unborn children forcibly taken from their wombs, generally by women who've been faking pregnancy and now need "proof" in the form of a newborn. A list of ten such cases in the [=US=] appears [[http://listverse.com/2008/09/20/10-cases-of-fetal-abduction-in-the-us/ here]].
** A tragic case was the murders of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez and her son Yovanny at the hands of Clarisa Figueroa, who was motivated by the recent death of her own child. Marlen was lured under the pretense of free baby clothes, and was killed and thrown in a dumpster. Yovanny did not survive being ripped from his mother.
** Tiffany Hall not only murdered a pregnant mother and her unborn child in a failed attempt of this, but also murdered the victim's other three children out of sadism. She was sentenced to death.

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* ''Literature/TheBible'': It is mentioned, specifically in the prophetic books of the Old Testament, and is involved with conflicts involving pagan nations as well as Israel's own civil war. The Assyrians (one of the most brutal and most effective armies of the ancient Middle East) are mentioned as doing this among other practices that would be considered war crimes today.

* ''Literature/TheBible'': It is mentioned, specifically in the prophetic books of the Old Testament, and is involved with conflicts involving other nations as well as its own civil war. The Assyrians (one of the most brutal and most effective armies of the ancient Middle East) are mentioned as doing this among other practices that would be considered war crimes today.

* Horrifically, this is actually OlderThanFeudalism. It goes back to the root of all Western literature, ''Literature/TheIliad'', in which Agamemnon scolds his brother Menelaos for showing mercy to a Trojan:

* ''Literature/TheBible'':
** It is mentioned, specifically in the prophetic books of the Old Testament, where Israel has descended into idolatry and corruption, and is involved with conflicts involving other nations as well as its own civil war. The Assyrians (one of the most brutal and most effective armies of the ancient Middle East) are mentioned as doing this among other practices that would be considered war crimes today.
** In ''Literature/BookOfPsalms'', one of the PrayerOfMalice is that they wish pregnant women of enemy nations being cut open and having their fetuses pulled out and thrown against the rocks. This was a [[ValuesDissonance very common practice throughout the ancient world]].

Compare ImperiledInPregnancy.

* A variation in one of the ''WebOriginal/ChakonaVerse'' side stories, done on a pregnant taur who was [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe already very definitely dead]]