Right. The advent of pain medication & analgesia in labor was a feminist driven concept, backlash against the biblical ‘she shall suffer in childbirth’ idea. Women were offended that these male doctors were making them experience pain and agony when there were perfectly good drugs to be had. This was, in part, because women had lost access to the midwifery care of previous centuries, where non-medical approaches to the pain were the norm.
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