The consensus among medical ethicists is that medical professionals have a pretty bad track record of treating womens' health issues. The (over-)medicalization of childbirth, for example, has had a notable impact.
The medicalization of childbirth isn't doing so bad overall. We did well going from 1 in 100 maternal deaths to 1 in 10,000. Something has gone off the rails however as that rate doubled in the US since then to 2 in 10,000.
Similarly for IMR, an impressive drop from 1 in 10 to better than 1 in 100.
