I got it. He meant it's a natural biological process that women are equipped physically to handle and accomplish.
While it's not that simple a comparison the fact remains it IS part of the biological process. That it's treated as some sort of miracle and is now treated like every pregnant woman is a borderline emergency room patient takes away from the true miracle.
One has to wonder how humankind has survived the millenia without all the attendant care to a single birth of a child.
Of course it is a biological process. Women conceive, carry a child and give birth to that child. However, I disagree that a woman giving birth is treated as a “borderline emergency room patient” and that takes away from the true miracle. There was a time where female and infant mortality was very high due to complications during and after childbirth. Complications can and do arise even with pregnancies that are not problematic. For example, a good friend of ours was in labor with twins. The baby’s heart monitors flat lined. They did an emergency C-section without anesthesia (the anesthesiologist was able to give her something IV wise when the OB/GYN was removing baby number 2. The MIRACLE is that both babies were resuscitated and they were able to stop the Mom from bleeding to death.
Humans did survive over the years with respect to our population. However, walk through an old cemetery and take some time there. It is very common to see a family plot with eight, ten, even twelve infants that died the day of their birth or soon thereafter. It is also common to see the death date of a woman matching the death date of a newborn. As I had stated, if I had not been in the hospital with “all the attendant care” and modern medicine available, my eleven year old daughter and I wouldn’t be here today.