I believe Grace did the only thing open to her under the circumstances. Without her intervention both mom and baby, the baby most certainly,may have died. While the professional and personal risk to Grace herself was large, she was ready to sacrifice herself for the sake of her patient and that person's baby. My first child was a breech/forceps birth, but in 1954 and in a hospital. Because my labor was too advanced when I reached the hospital for a C section, he was born vaginally. I was not informed of the "rush" reason for the delivery and was out from ether (this was 1954, remember), so, while I wish some things had been done differently, I am grateful for the doctor who safely delivered by son. The dr. was a GP, by the way, not an OB dr.