re: #125 wrenchwench

‘Objectively weird’ is too nice. I was also raised Catholic. Yesterday I learned that Catholics invented the caesarean section. At first, of course, the mother was not expected to live, but the baby was given a chance. They didn’t use it if the mother had a chance. Unless…

They wanted to baptize the baby before it died. When in doubt, the mother had to go first.

Invented?

According to this there are mentions of the procedure going way back before the Catholic church existed. Not by that name, but the idea of cutting a child out of a dead or dying woman seems to be an idea that wouldn’t take the church to invent.

nlm.nih.gov