Purity: Post-Mortem Caesarean Section
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Ayatullah Sistani
Ruling 616:
Whenever a woman dies with a living child in her womb, if there is hope in the child surviving – albeit for a short time – then the woman must be cut open from wherever it is best suited for the health of the child and the child must be taken out; the mother’s body must then be stitched up. However, if one knows or is confident that if this were done the child would die, then it is not permitted.
-Ayatullah Sistani, Practical Laws of Islam, Purification (Taharah)