Medicine Is Not the Enemy of Birth: Practicing Preventive Ethics Saves Women's and Babies' Lives
Why prevention is the moral core of modern obstetrics
There is a persistent myth in childbirth discourse that safety emerges when medicine steps back. That birth is safest when clinicians intervene less, monitor less, and trust physiology more. It is a comforting idea. It is also historically and clinically wrong.
Modern obstetrics exists for one reason. To prevent harm before it happens. That principle, pr…
