"Life threatening condition that is always physically harmful `` ? What a giant load of steamy BS . Rarely is pregnancy physically harmful and even rarer is it life threatening . There are over 6 Billion people on this earth today . If motherhood was so damn dangerous , do n't you think the population would be a lot lower , even if it was just due to mothers keeling over after giving birth ? Where do you get this BS from , Planned Parenthood ?"
"They used to keel over regularly before modern medicine and my wife has been on medication for a thyroid condition ever since she delivered . '' During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , between 1 percent and 1.5 percent of all births ended in the mother 's death as a result of exhaustion , dehydration , infection , hemorrhage , or convulsions . Since the typical mother gave birth to between five and eight children , her lifetime chances of dying in childbirth ran as high as 1 in 8 . This meant that if a woman had eight female friends , it was likely that one might die in childbirth. ``"
"Rarely is pregnancy physically harmful and even rarer is it life threatening"
"'' the typical mother gave birth to between five and eight children , her lifetime chances of dying in childbirth ran as high as 1 in 8 ``"