Demerol is usually not given to pregnant women because of potentially serious respiratory complications to the baby. In extreme cases, a physician may judge that the benefits outweigh the risks and administer it.
The actor playing Red's chief of security Baz, Baz, also happens to be a former C.I.A. officer and veteran U.S. Marine who founded an N.G.O. that rescues kidnapped children in the sex-slave trade.