ABSTRACT
Reproductive technology has been poorly used because both health care providers and client's unhistorically expect it to prevent all death and uncertainty. Because of this it people often get the risks, side effects, and inaccurate information without benefits. Unrealistic expectations of reproductive technologies among some doctors, technicians and childbearing women are matched by unrealistic expectations of nature and women's bodies by others, including people in the feminist and women's health movement. The natural childbirth movement and lay midwifery are based on the feminist idea that women's bodies work, that giving birth is natural function of women bodies and not a medical problem. A childbirth educator who often attends hospital births to provide support to the woman, tells of a client of hers who was laboring in a big teaching hospital where such x rays are relied on. Ultrasound is another example of the double-edged nature of reproductive technology.
