Christians refuse to admit that original sin is emotional abuse.

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4. Doctors argued that women shouldn't get anesthetics in childbirth because of the bible.

This was in the 19th century when they discovered ether and chloroform. After Queen Victoria had her 8th and her 9th children with the aid of chloroform, I think attitudes changed.



Dr. John Snow, May 14, 1853: The Lancet, British medical journal, criticized Dr. Snow but not by name, and Queen Victoria's physicians for the use of chloroform during the birth of Prince Leopold.
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/victoria.html

I assume these asshole male doctors think so little of women that they would gladly let women die in childbirth rather than do a c-section, like they do nowadays in many cases to prevent maternal and fetal death.

I am a grown woman, and had a person here on DU argue with me that "they just needed to turn the baby" after I told her that I HAD to have a C-section or I would have died, because there was simply not enough room, and I am a small person. This woman, who I assume is a natural childbirth nut, said I "must have a deformed pelvis". I am perfectly normal and do not have a deformed pelvis. It's just not big enough and she didn't get the concept. The hole in a woman's pelvis has to be 4 inches in diameter (approximately 10 cm) to be big enough for the baby's head to get through.