We'll guess that it had more to do with the baby's health and the mother's safety. Which brings us back to the values debate. The fact that Asians mostly reject the play doesn't imply a spurning of Western values. Our contention has been that Asia is more Western than most people think. Communist China's roots are Western.
Monologues makes bad press for all of Western values.
What communism and The Vagina Monologues show is that not all Western values have worth. Yet neither is the Asian-values camp right to excoriate all that the West offers. There are broader lessons. Laws authorizing private power plants in Taiwan were enacted three years ago. Thus, when the private producer sells excess power to the national grid, it does so on unfavourable terms.