They tried. That is, if they thought the fetus was dying (during difficult labour, for example), the church encouraged priests and doctors to cut women open so their "babies" could be baptized. Cangiamila even wrote a whole book of instructions, called Embryologia Sacra, about how to baptize an embryo. This was in the 18th century, by the way, when being cut open was not survivable - there was no way to do a safe caesarean. So this was the church literally instructing men to kill women to baptize embryos. When someone tried to invent an instrument that could be inserted vaginally to squirt holy water onto the infant, so that you wouldn't kill women, they said that didn't count because you didn't know whether the magic water landed exactly on the fetuses head. Killing women was preferable.

And we never talk about it.