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Such a great myth that our culture perpetuates. You genuinely think half of women are dying in Childbirth in undeveloped countries right now? I'm in Africa ty

• harry8 8y ago
  Do you really think underdeveloped is the same as cave-people? That Africans have no education and expertise to do their absolute best looking after mothers and babies? I have to disagree strongly there... As ever more money would probably lead to better outcomes still. Poor Africa is unbelievably wealth compared to pre-history. https://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/health/africa-200-000-women-die-from-natural-childbirth-8736527 https://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/health/africa-200-000-women-... Is the rate of non-intervention childbirth in pre-history 50% or 1%? This is not really even an interesting question. With absolute certainty you can say it was more than 1%. In modern times we've made that massively lower. /Even/ in very poor parts of Africa interventions of many different kinds happen to get that natural rate down. It's not "natural" to take antibiotics for infection either. Get natural out of this discussion. Childbirth is dangerous, we have made huge progress as a species so that it really shouldn't be anymore. That progress is not "natural" what it is, is actually morally good. Prosletysation in evidence based medicine should require peer-reviewed studies with data available cited as evidence. Where is that when all these people say "natural" is better? Evidence would convince me. Really.