It’s easier to give birth in a small, dark, warm room with a midwife silently knitting, says Odent (Image: Daniel Stier)
Why are you worried about natural childbirth?
Until recently, women who could give birth very easily in general had many children, while a woman who could not give birth had no children. Today, a woman can generally have the number of children she wants to have, regardless of her capacity to give birth, so the laws of natural selection have been neutralised. This means the future capacity to give birth unassisted is likely to decline. For me, this raises…
