[WikiEN-l] Re: NPOV: Fetus personhood - fish for all the thanks

[Haukur Þorgeirsson]

> For the record... at my last medical check-up, we discussed several
> pain-relief methods for birth, and one of the proposal made by the
> medical team was 100% homeopathy based ...

You can certainly give birth with 100% placebo based
pain-relief or no pain-relief of all. Most women
throughout time have done so. Even as effective pain-
relief became available some religious people were
against its use on the grounds that God, in his mercy,
had intended woman to give birth with pain as punishment
for Eve's transgression. That seems pretty clear from
Genesis 3.16:

To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your
pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth
to children. Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you."

Whether you decide to give birth God's way or reap some
of the fruits of modern medical science I wish you the
best of luck with your birth and child.

Homeopathy is based on an 18th century theory which
later discoveries have shown does not hold up. Yet,
its adherents often defend it by using a scientific
vocabulary. Thus it is pseudo-science.

Regards,
Haukur