Also, the overall chance of pregnancy with unprotected sex involving a man and a woman of childbearing age is 1 in 4. So, would you engage in such sex knowing that there was a 1 in 40 chance it would lead directly to your own death? (Or your partners? Bees be Krayton!)
I wonder if that's where some of our cognitive biases around risk come from? It benefits our genes that we're cavalier about certain kinds of risk.
Also unprotected sex does not necessarily equal procreative sex, which I realize is a somewhat controversial statement, but nonetheless true.
[0] https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/withdr... (there's no fragment, it's under the effectiveness section of the accordion)
[1] https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/condom...
I knew that when I posted it. When I posted it, I thought I had clearly indicated it, but looking at it again, that must have been forgotten before it could be enacted. My intention was to play with the two wildly inaccurate figures together.
1 in 20 (~50 in 1000) in the UK until 1940/1950. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1633559/
and lots of interesting reading here: https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1...
but 1/180 times your baby got a Staph Infection they would not have gotten at home and died?
The numbers are obviously bogus, but there are dangers to anyplace you choose to give birth... As long as people are well informed, seems they should be able to choose their own adventure.
Drinking a hot beverage is much more dangerous than drinking a cold beverage.
Life is full of dangers and risks. Why should birth be any different?
I could post many stories of people who had their first kid in a hospital and had a horrible experience, ends up getting a C section when not really needed, etc (See american C-section rates vs European for example). Then they chose to have a kid at home and had a 100x better experience and a more healthy baby (due to lack of C section and all the problems that leads to).
What you are doing here, is glossing over the underlying logic and falsely reasoning by resemblances. I find this sort of false reasoning flat-out stupid. It needs to be called out so others do not imitate it. (Which is a more meaningful resemblance to anti-vaxxers your comment is exhibiting.)