Earlier, in a thread about birth control when the question of weighing the risks of pregnancy in choosing whether to use birth control came up, one commenter said:

It’s one thing to be aware of the risks of pregnancy – and more importantly how best to look after your health and diet to minimise any health complications you might suffer – but it’s quite another to try and scare women out of having children.

My grand-aunt delivered her own baby. In the dark.

I came across this short video tonight on maternal mortality, which pretty effectively communicated that there’s more to weighing the risks of pregnancy than scare-mongering. A lot of other women gave birth in the dark by themselves and died.