This is true but unlikely just because of medical interventions during delivery. Health in general has improved, so if you are healthier when you get pregnant, you are also more likely to have a healthy pregnancy and baby. Also, one of the awesome benefits of modern medicine is some of the screening that can be done to detect problems earlier in pregnancy, problems which can sometimes be corrected or at least reduced. And through such screening, women who absolutely need medical intervention can be identified and women who are very unlikely to can also.
No one, including the makers of the film, ever said there should never be interventions or that modern medicine was not valuable. But you can overly medicalize things and create problems where none exist, and that is the issue. The point is also made that the US, despite having all this hospital care, has one of the highest infant mortality rates and of birth complications of developed countries, whereas countries that have all the medical advances but use more discretion in implementing them (i.e., for high risk cases and not as routine procedures) mysteriously have much lower rates of infant mortality and complications. THAT is the point - not that modern medical care is bad. Obviously modern medical care is a wonderful thing, but that does not mean that unnecessary procedures are better just because you CAN perform them.
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