Commentary: Is 'natural motherhood' more feminist?
It's hard to pinpoint when exactly it happened, but it's clear we are living in a new normal. No, I'm not referring to Trump. I'm referring to the shift in public opinion about what constitutes a morally sound approach to childbirth and early motherhood.
A summary for the uninitiated: Medicalized childbirth, with its epidurals and scheduled cesareans, is morally inferior. Natural childbirth, with its doulas, home births and heaping dose of additional pain, is morally superior.
The value judgment doesn't end in the delivery room. Increasingly, it is considered
