My observations from watching my wife is pregnancy is considerably *more* tramatic than the car accident I didn't walk away from. For that matter I suspect it'd be less traumatic to donate a third of my liver.

Calling pregnancy "natural" trivializes it. Death is also natural. Similarly, "morning sickness" is misnamed since she was perfectly fine during the morning, it was the rest of the day she felt like shit.

Yes, unlike "the dawn of time" dying in Childbirth is rare now. But we don't call it "Labor" because it's easy. Pregnancy is deep into the territory where it's easy to die or be maimed if something goes wrong.

My wife had easy labors and she still was months recovering from the bone she broke last time. For that matter I can tell that these pregnancies have aged her.

We don't have the right to inflict medical risks and side effects of this nature on each other.