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As the Russian armies drove westward to meet the Americans and the British, a Soviet patrol picked up a Mrs. Bergmeier foraging food for her three children. Unable even to get word to the children, and without any clear reason for it, she was taken off to a prison camp in the Ukraine. Through the sympathetic commandant of the prison camp, Mrs. Bergmeier learned that her husband and family were trying to find her. But the rules allowed them to release her for only two reasons: (1) illness needing medical facilities beyond the camp's in which case she would be sent to a Soviet hospital elsewhere, and (2) pregnancy, in which case she would be returned to Germany as a liability.

She considered the matter, and asked a friendly camp guard to impregnate her, which he did. Her condition being medically verified, she was sent back to Berlin and to her family. They welcomed her with open arms, even when she told them how she had managed it. When the child was born, they loved him more than all the rest, on the view that he had done more for them than anybody.

Was she right to do so?

Describe the difference in how Kant would answer this question, versus how a utilitarian would answer this question.