All this talk of birth interventions etc brought to mind a Star Trek
episode of a number of years ago.  A human female was about to give
birth to an inter-species baby.  The father's body had a number of
bony projections so the baby was likely to have them also and the
concern was whether or not the woman would be injured by a vaginal
birth.  No problem.  They simply used the transporter to "beam" the
baby from the mother's uterus to the waiting crib next to her!
(They never did explain how they dealt with the placenta.)  Now
wouldn't that be a way to avoid the whole labor/birth process.  If
the technology were available I can see a rush to use it just like
there has been for epidurals.
(For those not familiar with Star Trek, persons are transported from
one location to another by a machine that dissembles their
molecules, beams them to the other location and promptly reassembles
them.)
There were definitely some good things about the "good old days".
Winnie

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