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  Once they saw the data, doctors at Parkland and Clements told me, they went to hospital lawyers. “Our numbers are horrible, and our patients are just getting infected with zero benefit to the baby,” the ob-gyn at Parkland recalled saying. “Can we please go back to the way we were doing this?” Since then, the doctor and a counterpart at Clements said, they have been allowed to induce labor for patients with second-trimester rupture of membrane before an infection arises, even if the fetal heartbeat is still present. “We could not reverse the damage,” the Parkland ob-gyn said, “but at least we could offer some options to some patients.”