Why I have a "bandwagon"

Sigh.

I was recently informed I have a bandwagon, a soapbox... And I started thinking about this. Ya know, what is wrong with having a platform?

What is part of my platform? Well, I use a word climate to describe a whole host of factors that contribute to one physical event. Birth.

Sex, Pregnancy, and Birth all happen. On the pure scientific level, procreation, continuation of the species. A biological process. A physical chain of events that occur in mammalian animals driven by hormones, etc.

Procreation happens, all mammals reproduce. And I guess enter here my ~evil agenda, twisted view, etc~... All mammals have the inate, physical ability to reproduce unassisted. there I said it. Rabbits do it, cats do it, cows do it, even if you believe it, our closest relative, primates birth without assistance. Yet humans are the ONLY mamal that cannot procreate without assistance? Most people will bluster "perposterous, what are you talking about, we don't need assistance!". Do we?

Alright. Then why do we use assitance (MW, OB, Hosptial, etc)? Now the popular response would be multi facited... 1) We have the technology to make it safer. 2) We have the technology so women can be saved from the pains of labor. 3) We need help in case something goes wrong!

Ok.. I can see that, I can see the logic to that. But what I cannot see is that our society has completely embrased the technical form of Birth and shunned other options. That if you were to ask a woman on the street if they "needed a Dr., a hospital to birth a baby" the answer would be yes. Why?

Sort of off on the side, but the mind wanders you know... One fellow listmember once wrote, that if we feel birth is so inherently dangerous that we must do it in a hospital, is it a leap to next mandate the beginning of the process "intercourse" to also be done in the hospital? Jokingly staing that something might go wrong, all those sperms may be lost, there may be a physical injury during the act.

Is it a "feel good" need? To feel that I have surrounded myself with everything, (including the machine that goes ping) and so now if something goes astray, I will be saved....

I just do not know... Somehow we arrived at this point. Now what?