Quoting%20commentary for Yevamot 71:3

תניא כוותיה דרבא הכונס יבמתו ונמצאת מעוברת הרי זו לא תנשא צרתה שמא יהא ולד בן קיימא ואין ביאה וחליצה פוטרת אלא ולד פוטר והולד אין פוטרה עד שיצא לאויר העולם

does this imply an objection against Resh Lakish?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who does not regard the marital contact of a pregnant woman as a valid marriage ');">⁶</span> — Resh Lakish can answer you [that the Baraitha] is thus to be interpreted:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'thus he taught'. ');">⁷</span> Where a levir married his yebamah who was found to be pregnant, her rival may not be married; since it is possible that the child may not be viable, and the <i>halizah</i> of a pregnant woman is no valid <i>halizah</i> nor is the marital contact with a pregnant woman a proper marriage; and were you to suggest that one should be guided by the majority of women, and the majority of women bear healthy children, [it could be retorted that] a child brings no exemption until he is actually born.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'he went forth unto the air of the world'. ');">⁸</span>

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