There Seems To Be This Sense Among

In Much Of The World, The Most Dangerous Thing A Woman Can Do Is Become Pregnant.

Guilt-tripping People Does Not Work; They Tend To Be Turned Off.

When Anesthesia Was Developed, It Was For Many Decades Routinely Withheld From Women Giving Birth, Since Women Were "supposed" To Suffer. One Of The Few Societies To Take A Contrary View Was The Huichol Tribe In Mexico. The Huichol Believed That The Pain Of Childbirth Should Be Shared, So The Mother Would Hold On To A String Tied To Her Husband's Testicles. With Each Painful Contraction, She Would Give The String A Yank So That The Man Could Share The Burden. Surely If Such A Mechanism Were More Widespread, Injuries In Childbirth Would Garner More Attention.

Laws Matter, But Typically Changing The Law By Itself Accomplishes Little.

I Think When Hundreds Of Thousands Of Lives Are On The Line, You Might Have To Set Aside Some Principles.