Many Western doctors hold the belief that we can improve everything, even natural childbirth in a healthy woman. This philosophy is the philosophy of people who think it deplorable that they were not consulted at the creation of Eve, because they would have done a better job.

Kloosterman criticizes a technocratic strain in modern Western medicine: the assumption that professional intervention can and should “improve” even normal physiological processes such as uncomplicated childbirth. By invoking the biblical creation of Eve, he satirizes a mindset of overconfidence—people so certain of their superior expertise that they imagine they could have corrected creation itself. The remark functions as a warning against unnecessary medicalization and paternalism, suggesting that the drive to optimize can become a form of hubris that undervalues the body’s inherent capacities and the autonomy of healthy women. It implicitly argues for restraint, humility, and respect for natural variation in birth.