![]() ![]() Infant formula changed that.īut the single biggest factor in women’s enslavement to their biology has been the inability to control their fertility - blighting sexual enjoyment, imposing tremendous economic hardship of unwanted children, and bringing death to young mothers who agonized over being torn from their older children. Epidurals changed that.īreastfeeding bound women to the home and posed serious health problems for babies of mothers who couldn’t produce enough milk and turned to unsafe supplements. ![]() Hospital birth changed that.Ĭhildbirth is routinely agonizing and has always been a source of tremendous fear and suffering. Opposition to the Pill is the next logical step of that philosophy.įor most of human history, women have been reduced to slaves to their biology.Ĭhildbirth is inherently dangerous and has always been a major cause of death for young women. She’s part of a natural parenting movement that is anti-hospital birth, anti-epidural and anti-formula - technological innovations that have made the legal, political and especially the economic liberation of women possible. Surprisingly, the path is rather straightforward. How did Lake, who advocates women’s empowerment by taking childbirth out of hospitals and returning it to the home, come to criticize what is arguably the greatest source of women’s empowerment of all time, as well as a tremendous boon to women’s health? ![]()
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