Charlie Bell wrote: > > Some people have c-sections because they can schedule them > round their yoga, or because they need to fit childbirth > into a certain period of the financial year for tax or > government incentive reasons, > The above reasons do not exist - at least here.
> or to replace the uncertain risks of childbirth with the > calculated risks of an operation. > Yes, this is the major (logically justifiable) reason for so many C-sections here in Brazil. The other half is that C-sections optimize the doctor's times, both the obstetrician and the pediatrician - and this is a scarce resource, worth optimizing! > Given reliable artificial womb technology financially on > a par with or not substantially more than the cost of > childbirth, the risks and convenience mean that it would > be taken up. How many, not sure, but it would be widespread. > Specially if gay men decide to have children. So, maybe we will have the hellish opposite scenario of the lesbian utopia: a world where most people are gay men :-/ Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l